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Advocates Celebrate 20th Anniversary of U.N. Gay Rights Ruling

Advocates Celebrate 20th Anniversary of U.N. Gay Rights Ruling

On April 11th 1994 Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group announced that the U.N. Human Rights Committee decreed that Tasmania’s laws criminalising homosexuality were a breach of international human rights standards. The decision allowed the Federal Government the power to override the laws which lead directly to their repeal in 1997. It was also the […]

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