{"id":3760,"date":"2014-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/setback-in-india\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T19:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:54:24","slug":"setback-in-india","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/setback-in-india\/","title":"Setback in India","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p>The recent decision of the Supreme Court of India to uphold the criminalization of homosexuality in the country has been the target of criticism by the lawyer and activist Arvind Narrain, founder of the organization Alternative Law Forum. The case demonstrates the challenges for the construction of a transformative constitutionalism in emerging countries \u2013 the central topic of a book released earlier this month by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulp.up.ac.za\/index.html\"><u>Pulp<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(Pretoria University Law Press).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/88870540?color=ff9933\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/88870540\">Arvind Narrain on Transformative constitutionalism<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user24172120\">Zeytoon Films<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this video statement broadcast at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/actions\/justice\/news\/15018-event-to-debate-constitutional-courts-in-emerging-countries\"><u>book launch in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/u><\/a>, Narrain talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulp.up.ac.za\/pdf\/2013_12\/Chapter13_IBSA.pdf\"><u>case filed by the Naz Foundation<\/u><\/a> requesting the suspension of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which bans homosexual relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was first filed, in 2001, the case has received unceasing support from Indian civil society. The judiciary finally gave in to the pressure and, in 2009, the Delhi High Court issued a ruling in favor of the organization. At the time, the judges based their decision on the concept of constitutional morality and guaranteed the right to intimacy for the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, however, the Indian Supreme Court overturned the Delhi court\u2019s ruling and upheld the prohibition on homosexual relationships. Narrain described the decision as <em>\u201c<em>a bad day for law and love<\/em>\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulp.up.ac.za\/pdf\/2013_12\/Chapter13_IBSA.pdf\"><strong><u>here<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<strong>the article by<\/strong> <strong>Arvind Narrain on the Naz Foundation case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the lawyer, the decision of the Indian Supreme Court to uphold section 377 demonstrates that transformation via constitutionalism ultimately depends on the people interpreting the law. He also stated that the decision clashes with the progress made in this area by countries such as Brazil and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulp.up.ac.za\/pdf\/2013_12\/Chapter12_IBSA.pdf\">here<\/a> the article by Samuel\u00a0Friedman\u00a0and Thiago\u00a0Amparo on the decision of the Supreme Court of <strong>Brazil<\/strong> in the case on homosexual union.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulp.up.ac.za\/pdf\/2013_12\/Chapter14_IBSA.pdf\">here<\/a> the article by Jaco\u00a0Barnard-Naud\u00e9 on the decision of the Supreme Court of <strong>South Africa<\/strong> on the same subject.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>Supreme Court takes a step backwards in historic decision for the LGBT movement<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[729,194],"tema":[12278],"class_list":["post-3760","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","hentry","category-news","tag-lgbt","tag-supreme-court","tema-democracy-and-human-rights-movement"],"acf":{"author":false},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"featured_image":[],"terms":{"acoes_categorias":[],"acoes_tags":[],"category":[{"term_id":7,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1520,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/category\/news\/","relative_link":"category\/news\/","langs":{"en":"news","br":"noticia-conectas"}}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":729,"name":"LGBT","slug":"lgbt","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":729,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/tag\/lgbt\/","relative_link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/tag\/lgbt\/","langs":{"en":null,"br":"lgbt"}},{"term_id":194,"name":"Supreme court","slug":"supreme-court","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":194,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":51,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/supreme-court\/","relative_link":"tag\/supreme-court\/","langs":{"en":"supreme-court","br":null}}]},"author_name":"Leonardo Medeiros","author_nicename":"leonardo-medeiros","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"setback-in-india","br":"retrocesso-na-india"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/setback-in-india\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/setback-in-india\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}