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The Supreme Court of Japan has today (October 25) issued a ruling in a family law case, declaring that the stipulation of the Special Law on Gender Identity Disorder, which mandates surgical sterilisation as a prerequisite for gender reassignment, is unconstitutional in Japan. This decision was base
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According to a new report published by Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law in the United States, about 105,200 transgender youth aged 13 to 17 live in 22 States where gender-affirming medical care is banned. Nineteen of these bans—all except three—were enacted in 2023. An estimated 92,700 trans
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The top court in India has declined to legally recognise same-sex marriage in a landmark ruling, which was streamed live across the country and to crowds gathered outside the court. During the two-hour ruling, Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud said queerness is a “natural phenomenon,” and told the gov
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Lead Pic: Pliny Soocoormanee, Executive Officer of Peter Tatchell Foundation, at Mauritius Pride In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Mauritius has declared the country’s ban on same-sex intimacy ‘discriminatory’ and ‘unconstitutional’. The case was brought by Abdool Ridwan Firaas Ah Seek, the
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The man is the fifth Ugandan to be charged with an offence under the country’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act
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Police in Nigeria have detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding, in what is being reported as one of the country’s largest arrests targeting outlawed homosexuality.
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Videos of the attack on the Madame Om bar by people identifying themselves as members of the Jnoud El-Rab Christian group show the assailants destroying furniture outside the bar, beating up people who tried to leave the premises, and threatening the owner with more violence if they continued to “pr
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Their protest, outside the downtown Sogo shopping mall on Saturday (29 July), was prompted by the recent public caning of two alleged lesbians and other crackdowns on the LGBTQ+ community in Malaysia.
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Since February 2022, Insight, a feminist organisation that provides medical care, legal aid, and psychosocial services to queer community members, has housed hundreds of people in three emergency shelters and distributed more than 25,000 emergency aid parcels.
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The Ugandan President’s signing of highly repressive anti-LGBTQ+ law is a ‘dark day’ for human rights, according to Amnesty International. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill imposes a punishment of life imprisonment for same-sex sexual acts, and up to ten years behind bars for attempted same-sex sexual act
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Three LGBTQ+ activists have been sentenced for their role in an attack on a van used by a conservative group, Fundacja Pro, displaying images and slogans linking LGBTQ+ to paedophilia on the streets of Warsaw in June 2020.
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The 54-page report, Kenya: “Just Like Any Other Person”, details the extreme discrimination and violence suffered by LGBTQ+ residents in Kakuma – both as a result of their status as asylum seekers or refugees and their sexual orientation, gender identity