In recognition of International Youth Day (IYD) 2020, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) is calling on the newly installed PPP/C Government to show its sincerity for youth by acting in its first year in office to safeguard especially marginalised youths.
Against this background, SASOD wants the Irfaan Ali Administration to implement what it calls five top actions for marginalised youth—listing among them the repeal of Sections 351 to 353 of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act which criminalises same-sex intimacy between consenting, adult men in private.
According to a press release from SASOD, it also wants sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression to be prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Prevention of Discrimination Act (Section 4). An earlier PPP/C administration had refused to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground for discrimination.
