The violations they face include killing as well as imprisonment, torture, and abuses aimed specifically at sexual minorities, such as practices aimed at forcibly changing their sexual orientation. These violations of UDHR Article 3, the right to life, liberty, and security of person, are only the most extreme examples of violations of the rights of sexual minorities. In Sweden, authorities deported a gay asylum seeker from Iran. Repatriated Iranian gays face possible imprisonment or death in Iran. In India, theaters showing Fire, are attacked because of the movie s lesbian story line.
Many theaters subsequently refuse to screen the film.
In the United States, two adult men are arrested in Houston under Texas sodomy law for consensual homosexual conduct in private. Though rarely enforced, about half of all U.S. states have similar laws. Not all the news fifty years after passage of the UDHR is so bleak, however. In Canada, that nation s Supreme Court ruled that when the Alberta legislature omitted sexual orientation from the province s anti-discrimination laws, it was violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court ruled that such protection should be read into the law.