Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in ...

is a small island nation in

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History

Homosexuality was criminalised in 1899, when the island was a German protectorate. Sodomy laws were again introduced in 1921 when the island was under Australian rule and are based on the Criminal Code of

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. Those laws were retained following Nauruan independence in 1968. In January 2011,

Mathew Batsiua Mathew Jansen Batsiua (born 27 May 1971) is a Nauruan politician. Batsiua, a former health minister and former foreign minister of Nauru, has served as a member of parliament for the constituency of Boe since 2004. Parliamentary role Batsiua has ...

, Minister for Health, Justice and Sports, stated that the decriminalisation of "homosexual activity between consenting adults" was "under active consideration". In October 2011, the government pledged to decriminalise same-sex sexual acts; however, no relevant legislation was enacted by the end of 2014. On 27 May 2016, Nauru decriminalised homosexuality.The Age, 27 May 2016
Marital rape no longer allowed and suicide, homosexuality decriminalised at Nauru
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History

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