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Nauru has reformed its criminal code, decriminalising homosexuality and suicide.

Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial amendment that decriminalises some forms of domestic violence.

Celebrations have erupted in India after the supreme court unanimously ruled to decriminalise homosexual sex in a landmark judgment for gay rights.

Ghana is one of four countries to have decriminalised suicide in the past year – Malaysia, Guyana and Pakistan are the others.