Human Dignity Trust

We are proud members of the legal panel for the Human Dignity Trust, a charity which uses strategic litigation to decriminalise same-sex relations in foreign jurisdictions.  

Across the world lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are criminalised for who they are and who they love – in extreme cases they can face life imprisonment or even the death penalty.  

Criminalisation laws of this kind proliferated during the colonial period, as European states exported their discriminatory criminal laws.  Research by the Human Dignity Trust shows that British law is by some way the largest source of criminalisation.

We therefore work alongside lawyers at the Human Dignity Trust, leading human rights barristers and local foreign counsel to help shape and run legal challenges in targeted foreign jurisdictions – using the law to rectify the harms of the past and defend the human rights of LGBT people globally.