The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has submitted a legal brief to Ugandan President Yowere Museveni outlining how adoption of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently being debated would breach both Uganda’s Constitution and its international treaty obligations.

ERT’s submission calls on President Museveni and Ugandan parliamentarians to reject the Bill in its entirety, and to review the constitutionality of section 145 of the Ugandan Penal Code, which is currently used to prosecute homosexual conduct.

A letter from the Equal Rights Trust to Commonwealth General Secretary Kamalesh Sharma expressing concern at the continuing and widespread legal discrimination against homosexuals across the Commonwealth of Nations, a situation brought into sharp focus by the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 before the parliament of Uganda in October 2009.

In this letter, the Equal Rights Trust (ERT) calls on members of the National Assembly of Mali to ensure that the draft Persons and Family Code is not regressively amended in response to concerns about the extension of equal rights for women.

On 30 September 2009, The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) submitted an expert opinion on the proposed amendments to the State Pensions Act to Latvia’s Saeima (Parliament). The amendments in question are a response to the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of Andrejeva v. Latvia (application no. 55707/00, judgment of 18 February 2009).

Religion and Healthcare in the European Union: Policy Issues and Trends, is a policy research report commissioned by the Network of European Foundations, in the framework of its ‘Religion and Democracy in Europe’ initiative. The report presents an analytical discussion of health policy issues on which religion has an impact.

The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has called on the Parliament of Sudan to repeal Article 152 of the country’s Criminal Act because it breaches the country’s human rights obligations.

On 10 July 2009, The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) submitted written comments to Vitalie Pârlog, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Moldova on the Draft Law on Preventing and Combating Discrimination. The Draft Law aims to ensure the enjoyment of all persons’ in the territory of Moldova to equal rights and equal treatment in political, economic, social and other spheres of life.

This is the ERT work itinerary which appears in volume three of The Eqial Rights Review.

This is the update on current projects which is published in volume three of The Equal Rights Review.

This The Equal Rights Trust Advocacy section of volume three of The Equal Rights Review written by Jarlath Clifford.