Editing Right to sexuality (section)

==Breach of the right to privacy==
{{Main| Right to Privacy}}
The [[right to privacy]] is a protected freedom under the UDHR,<ref>[https://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights], Article 12.</ref> and the ICCPR<ref>[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705115024/http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm |date=2008-07-05 }}, Article 17.</ref> which reflects the "widespread, if not universal, human need to pursue certain activities within an intimate sphere, free of outside interference. The possibility to do so is fundamental to personhood."<ref>E Heinze ''Sexual Orientation: A Human Right'' (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995) at 172.</ref> Intimate relationships, whether between two people of the same sex or of different sexes, are among those activities that are subject to a right of privacy.

It has been successfully argued in a number of cases that criminalization of homosexual relationships is an interference with the right to privacy, including decisions in the [[European Court of Human Rights]] and the UNHRC.<ref>''Dudgeon v UK'' A 45 (1981); (1982) 4 EHRR 149; ''Norris v Ireland'' A 142 (1988); (1988) 13 EHRR 186; ''Toonen v Australia'' (488/1992), CCPR/C/50/D/488/1992 (1994); 1-3 IHRR 97 (1994).</ref>

The freedom to decide on one's own consensual adult relationships, including the gender of that person, without the interference of the State is a fundamental human right. To prohibit the relationships of people of diverse sexual orientation is a breach of the right to sexuality and the right to privacy.