LESOTHO-SOGI-TBs-CCPR

Concluding Observations on Report 2 (2023) (Link)

19. The Committee is concerned by the discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation and disability and discrimination against elderly women, sex workers, people living with HIV and others. The Committee regrets that the provision in the Sexual Offences Act, 2003, criminalizing sodomy as an offence, has not yet been explicitly repealed (arts. 2, 3, 25 and 26).

20. The State party should:

(a) Combat all forms of stigmatization and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, gender and disability and against elderly women, sex workers and people living with HIV, including by increasing awareness-raising activities and ensuring that any act of discrimination and violence is investigated, that perpetrators are brought to justice and that victims are provided with redress;

(b) Repeal the provision on sodomy from the Sexual Offences Act, 2003.

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Concluding Observations on Report 1 (1999) (Link)

13. The Committee notes with concern that a sexual relationship between consenting adult partners of the same sex is punishable under law.

The Committee recommends that the State party amend the law in this respect.

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