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The In­ter-Amer­i­can Com­mis­sion on Hu­man Rights (IACHR) is ex­press­ing con­cern over the re­cent de­ci­sion of the Court of Ap­peal in Trinidad and To­ba­go re­in­stat­ing le­gal pro­vi­sions that crim­i­nalise con­sen­su­al sex­u­al re­la­tions be­tween adults of the same sex.

The IACHR said that this mea­sure had been pre­vi­ous­ly re­pealed by a first in­stance Court de­ci­sion in 2018.

“The IACHR re­it­er­ates that such laws are in­com­pat­i­ble with in­ter­na­tion­al hu­man rights stan­dards—par­tic­u­lar­ly the rights to pri­va­cy, equal­i­ty, and non-dis­crim­i­na­tion—and have a pro­found­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry im­pact on the lives of les­bian, gay, bi­sex­u­al, trans, in­ter­sex (LGBTI) and gen­der di­verse per­sons,” said the IACHR, which is a prin­ci­pal, au­tonomous body of the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS).