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  2. Orozco v Attorney General - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Constitution of Belize - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Local government in Belize - Wikipedia

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    Villages are declared by ministerial order and one qualification for village status is a minimum of 200 voters. The council is required to meet at least once every quarter and has discretionary powers to appoint committees. Decisions of village committees are subject to the approval of their council. There are over 180 village councils in Belize.

  5. Constituencies of Belize - Wikipedia

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    In Belize's 2003 General Elections, 29 constituencies voted in their Area Representatives for Belize's House of Representatives. Since then it was noted that the difference in voting populations between the most and least populous constituencies was rather large (Cayo South then had 8,000 voters compared to Pickstock's 1000+).

  6. LGBTQ rights in Belize - Wikipedia

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    While sodomy bans in The Bahamas were removed by the Parliament in 1991 and bans in the British Overseas Territories were overturned in 2000 by a UK Order in Council, Belize's sodomy ban was the first one in a former British colony in the Caribbean to be judicially overturned. [8] [9] It was also the last sodomy ban in Central America to be ...

  7. Equality Act - Wikipedia

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    Equality Act 2006, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, a precursor to the Equality Act 2010; Equality Act 2010, an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, with the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives; Equality Act (United States), a bill in the United States Congress that would ban discrimination on the basis of ...

  8. Women's Issues Network of Belize - Wikipedia

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    A strategic plan for 2002-2004 was developed in 2001, and in 2004 an external evaluation was conducted as a condition of the 2002-2004 HIVOS project. In support of the planning efforts, four focus group sessions were held with members between 2003 and 2004 to help identify issues for WIN-Belize's efforts, focused on: violence, health, women in ...

  9. Equal pay for equal work - Wikipedia

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    The 1961 Equal pay act (#60/1961), [19] 1976 Law for Equality between women and men (#78/1976 [20]), 2008 Act on Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men (#10/2008) and the amendment added to the law in 2017: Law on equal pay certification [21] according to the Equal Pay Standard introduced in 2012 (ÍST 85:2012 [22]) Ireland