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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 ...
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 ...
Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 - Guarantees equal pay for equal work to men and women. Indian Penal Code , 1860 (Section 153 A) - Criminalises the use of language that promotes discrimination or violence against people on the basis of race, caste, sex, place of birth, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category.
Belizean nationality law is regulated by 1981 Constitution of Belize, as amended; the Belizean Nationality Act, as revised; and various British Nationality laws. [1] [2] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Belize. [3] Belizean nationality is typically obtained either by descent or registration. [4]
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 ...
Caleb Orozco successfully argued in court that Belize's sodomy ban was unconstitutional.. In September 2010, the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) and its executive director Caleb Orozco jointly filed a case in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Belize challenging the constitutionality of Belize's anti-sodomy law with the support of the International Commission of Jurists, the ...
As part of the Belize Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Bill, the government proposed to remove this restriction; the same bill also proposed to replace the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice, and to allow dual citizens to become members of Parliament. [2]
The commission maintains a database of Belizean voters and periodically informs the nation on the state of the voter's list. It also occasionally makes proposals to revise boundaries in order to maintain near equality in voting divisions. There are currently 31 electoral divisions in Belize. The EBC has a chairman and four other persons on its ...