[Reader-list] invitation to talk on lesbian and gay rights

[A Khanna]

Voices Against 377 presents

   a talk on

   LESBIAN AND GAY HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA
   International and Comparative Perspectives

   by Dr. Robert Wintemute
   Professor of Human Rights Law,
   School of Law, King's College, University of London

   followed by a discussion.

   Where: Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi.
   When: Thursday, 23rd February 2006, 6.30 PM.

   Dr. Robert Wintemute is Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law,
King's College, University of London, where he teaches European Union 
Law, Human
Rights Law, and Anti-Discrimination Law. He is also the director in London of
the four-year LLB in English and French law jointly offered by King's College
and the Universite de Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne).

   He is the author of 'Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: The United States
Constitution, The European Convention and the Canadian Charter' (OUP, 
1995/1997)
and the editor (with honorary co-editor Mads Andenaes) of 'Legal 
Recognition of
Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, International and European Law'
(Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2001).

   Voices Against 377 is a coalition of NGOs based in Delhi where a 
united voice
is being articulated against the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code 
which has
been a source of serious human rights violations.

   Text of the Indian Penal Code, Section 377 reads as:
   "Unnantural Offences: Whosoever has carnal intercourse against the order of
nature, with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for
life, or with imprisonment with either description for a term, which 
may extend
to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine."