Tag: LGBT rights
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern left Mormon church to support LGBTQ rights
‘I just remember thinking – I’m either doing a disservice to the church or my friends’
LGBT people makes gains worldwide
72 countries still criminalise same-sex relations and there is an anti-LGBT backlash in about 20 countries. But liberation cannot be halted forever. Queer freedom is an unstoppable global trend. It knows no borders.
Trump Formally Bars Transgender People from Military
On the evening of Friday, August 25, Donald Trump released a memorandum instructing the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to limit transgender employment and health care in the military.
OECD : Iceland least homophobic country
Iceland is more accepting of LGBTQ people than any other OECD country, a news study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has found.
South Korea: Supreme Court Affirms LGBT Rights
South Korea’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to allow a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights foundation to legally register as a charity, ending three years of the foundation’s leaders facing discriminatory rejection from multiple government agencies. The judgment affirms South Korea’s obligations to respect freedom of assembly for all its citizens, Human Rights Watch said.
LGBT Country Profiles Track Shifting Terrain
Human Rights Watch has published during Pride Month a compilation of the records of 63 countries in recognising and protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.