Bhutan is a mountain kingdom in the Eastern Himalayas Lawmakers in Bhutan, a kingdom on the slopes of the Himalayas, has passed legislation to decriminalise homosexuality, leaving behind 66 nations that are still stuck in the dark ages. On Thursday, which was marked internationally as Human Rights Day, lawmakers in both houses of Parliament voted to amend articles 213 and 214 of the Penal Code which criminalised “unnatural sex.” The predominantly Buddhist South Asian nation, which is landlocked by India and China, has a population of around 800,000 people.
The amendment passed with a vote of 63 out of the total 69 members of Parliament. The newly adopted amendment does not repeal the provision entirely, but clarifies that “homosexuality
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