The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission is to be congratulated on this major victory for human rights and social justice.

There is no place in a modern democratic society for invasive and degrading procedures by the State in an attempt to prove homosexuality, and these procedures violate international human rights law while being devoid of any scientific merit

They are used to intimidate and humiliate, and the Court of Appeal in Kenya has rightly admonished the practice in the first major court case of its kind.

All countries that continue to use these barbaric practices should follow this lead and immediately ban the practice and uphold the fundamental rights of all people to dignity, privacy and security from inhuman and degrading treatment