Tag: LGBT rights
Haaretz poll finds 70% of Israelis support equality for gay community
Broad public strongly supports gay rights – but only 8% of Haredim back full equality.
Human rights in the world: Parliament’s annual report points to serious abuse for LGBTI people
Yesterday, the European Parliament voted its annual report on human rights in the world. The report reviews the situation of human rights (including the human rights of LGBTI persons) worldwide, and makes annual recommendations for EU action.
India Supreme Court Defies Human Rights, “Recriminalises” Love
The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation condemns a ruling by India’s Supreme Court overturning a lower court’s decision that decriminalised same-sex relationships.
Nation’s Largest Education and Counseling Organizations Partner with HRC in Supporting LGBTQ Youth
The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Counseling Association (ACA) have become Co-Presenting Conference Partners at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s inaugural Time To THRIVE Conference – supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
Opinion: Fair Play
Speaking last week during a press conference in Sochi, Jean Claude-Killy; Coordination Commission Chairman of the IOC, said that he was “fully satisfied” that recent controversial Russian laws banning homosexual propaganda, does not violate the anti-discrimination ruling of the Olympic Charter.
Opinion : Olympic Shame
So the IOC is “fully satisfied” that Russia’s anti-gay law doesn’t violate the Olympic Charter. Principle 6 of the Charter says: “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement.”