gay rights

The vote by the Human Rights Council on July 12, renewing the role of the UN expert on sexual orientation and gender identity and reflecting more global support to protect LGBTIQ rights than in the past, the author writes. 
I woke to a flurry of messages from LGBTIQ activists across the world, coordinating activities. It was July 12 and the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva was about to vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity — the SOGI expert, as it is called in the UN.

Singapore is a young country, having only gained independence from the British in 1965. Since then, the country has been ruled solely by the People’s Action Party (PAP). Singaporean citizens also enjoy one of the relatively lowest tax rates in the world but the country also suffers from a severe lack of press freedom and LGBT rights.

(ANTIMEDIA) A bill granting the pardons of 50,000 gay men convicted under a law criminalizing homosexuality during the Nazi regime was approved Wednesday by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet of conservatives and center-left Social Democrats,

When Russia’s Elvira Nabiullina was named European central banker of 2016, while reading an article on this story and checking the comments section, I noticed several facetious compliments such as “Russia is finally catching up in the area of gender equality”. Talk about inaccurate observations…

The official pardon offered posthumously to Alan Turing for his conviction of 'gross indecency' is to be extended to thousands of gay and bisexual men in England and WalesThe post Thousands of gay men to be pardoned appeared first on Positive News.

(RPI) Here is further proof that US foreign policy fact is stranger than fiction: one day after the Orlando shooting where some 50 patrons of a homosexual bar were gunned down, US Secretary of State John Kerry sat down to dinner with with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Washington, D.C.