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50 Va. J. Int'l L. 219 (2009-2010)
Gay Rights in Uganda: Seeking to Overturn Uganda's Anti-Sodomy Laws

handle is hein.journals/vajint50 and id is 221 raw text is: I NOTE I Gay Rights in Uganda: Seeking to Overturn Uganda's Anti-Sodomy Laws MICHAEL HOLLANDER* Introduction .......................................................................................... 220 I. History of the Anti-Sodomy Laws ............................................ 225 II. International Treaties ................................................................. 226 A. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.. 229 1. Toonen v. A ustralia ...................................................... 230 2. Opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Regarding the Detention of Homosexuals in Cameroon .......................................... 232 B. The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and C ultural R ights ................................................................... 232 C. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights ......... 234 III. Emerging International Consensus ............................................ 235 A. European Convention on Human Rights ............................ 238 1. Dudgeon v. United Kingdom of Great Britain and N orthern Ireland ........................................................... 240 2. K arn er v. A ustria .......................................................... 241 3. L . & V . v. A ustria ......................................................... 242 4. M odinos v. Cyprus ....................................................... 243 B . South A frica ....................................................................... 244 * Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney in the Employment Unit of Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia. This Note was originally written as a student research project while a member of the Cowan Fellows Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law. A very special thanks to Anne Coughlin for her advice and help writing the paper, and to all of the activists, government officials, and other individuals who gave their time, candid thoughts, and hospitality while I was traveling in Uganda. This work represents the author's original thoughts and is not meant to convey the position of any group with which the author is affiliated.

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