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Orozco v Attorney General (2016) 90 WIR 161, also known as Orozco v AG, the Orozco case, or the UNIBAM case, was a landmark case heard by the Supreme Court of Belize, which held that a long-standing buggery statute breached constitutional rights to dignity, equality before the law, freedom of expression, privacy, and non-discrimination on grounds of sex, and which declared the statute null and ...
Abortion in Belize is governed by sections 108–110 of the Criminal Code (enacted December 1980). Abortion is considered a criminal offense except when performed by a registered medical practitioner under certain conditions. The sentence for performing an illegal abortion in Belize is life imprisonment. [5]
According to the Constitution, the people of Belize: affirm that the Nation of Belize shall be founded upon principles which acknowledge the supremacy of God, faith in human rights and fundamental freedoms, the position of the family in a society of free men and free institutions, the dignity of the human person and the equal and inalienable rights with which all members of the human family ...
Prostitution in Belize is legal, but the buying of sexual services is not. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Associated activities such as operating a brothel , loitering for the purposes of prostitution and soliciting sex are also illegal.
Same-sex sexual activity was decriminalized in Belize in 2016, when the Supreme Court declared Belize's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. Belize's constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, which Belizean courts have interpreted to include sexual orientation. [3] [4] Belize held its first Pride Week in August 2017.
The Belize Police Department is descended from the British Honduras Constabulary (BHC), and started by the burgess family which was established in 1886. [1] Constabulary personnel initially numbered 141 and were recruited in Barbados because local men showed no interest in enlisting. [1]
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The two professors identified Belize as an ideal case for challenging bans on same-sex relationships. [3] In Belize, there was a law that specified a 10-year prison sentence for sodomy. [4] In 2011, Orozco and UNIBAM filed a constitutional case against the law, and challenged section 53 of the criminal code in Belize.