Oct 08, 2007Quickie Link: Gibraltar's Unequal Age of Consent for Gays Violates Human Rights
By vanrozenheim
(Gibraltar) - Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Peter Caruana’s failure to act on the legal age of consent is degrading the constitution and turning the Rock’s highest law into a series of voluntary codes as far as human rights are concerned, Equality Rights GGR claimed last night. And the group revealed that it has made a formal submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry on the Overseas Territories of the British Parliament. Felix Alvarez, chairman of GGR, said that both the Gibraltar and British governments were “failing in their legal obligations” when it came to human rights on the age of consent issue. In Gibraltar, the age of consent for heterosexuals is 16, and 18 for homosexuals.
