Human Rights Campaign condemn Gambia over new anti-gay law
The Human Rights Campaign has criticised Gambia over a bill to make “aggravated homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment. The law was passed by the National Assembly last month. According to the...
View ArticleJamaican Parliament to review anti-gay Sexual Offences Act
The Jamaican Parliament is set to review the country’s Sexual Offences Act – which stipulates penalties against same-sex sexual activity. A joint select committee will begin the task of scrutinising...
View ArticleWHO: Russia’s anti-gay laws hamper fight against HIV
Russia’s “repressive drug and homosexuality laws” hamper its fight against HIV, the World Health Organisation has warned. The country is home to one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world....
View ArticleEx-Attorney General of Singapore: Abolish anti-gay law
The former Attorney General of Singapore, Walter Woon, has urged for the repeal of the country’s ban on homosexuality. Speaking in a debate this week at the National University of Singapore, Mr Woon, a...
View ArticleForeign Office urges LGBT holidaymakers to think about pro-LGBT destinations
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) is encouraging LGBT couples to research and choose their overseas honeymoon destinations carefully. The introduction of the FCO’s ‘ Know Before You Go’...
View ArticleMoroccan Embassy: Tourists who have ‘unnatural’ gay sex risk jail
The Moroccan Embassy has defended its tough stance against homosexuality – as gay British man Ray Cole is released from prison pending an appeal. The 70-year-old ex-magazine publisher from Deal, Kent,...
View ArticleNigerian Archbishop tells government: Stop punishing gays
A Catholic Archbishop in Nigeria says the country’s government is “wrong” to be “punishing” gay Nigerians. The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, has condemned Nigeria’s draconian anti-gay...
View ArticleReport documents widespread anti-LGBT violence in Jamaica
A report by Human Rights Watch has documented widespread discrimination against Jamaica’s LGBT community. In its 86-page report titled “Not Safe at Home,” Human Rights Watch noted that LGBT citizens in...
View ArticleReport: Gay Iranians pressured into gender reassignment by doctors
Gay Iranians are being pressured into gender reassignment treatments due to the country’s draconian ban on same-sex relationships, doctors in the country have said. A BBC documentary has revealed many...
View ArticleUgandan minister confirms planning of new anti-gay law that cannot be challenged
Uganda plans to introduce a new anti-gay law that will withstand any legal challenge, a government minister has said. The minister, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the BBC that the proposed...
View ArticleAnti-gay Qatar cleared by FIFA to host 2022 World Cup
Qatar – a country notorious for its anti-gay laws – has been cleared to host the 2022 World Cup by football’s governing body. An ethics committee investigation by FIFA into the bidding process...
View ArticleLabour MEP Seb Dance: Europe must work with Africa to pursue LGBT rights
Labour MEP Seb Dance says Europe “has an important role to play” in helping Africa achieve LGBT rights, but that it needs to be done sensitively. The gay politician, who represents London in the...
View ArticleGambian President attends rally with protesters declaring: ‘Homosexuality is...
The President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has attended a mass rally against homosexuality in the country’s capital Banjul. AllAfrica reports thousands of protesters marched from the Gambian Parliament on...
View ArticleIndia: Ex-Chief Justice slams anti-gay law on 1st year anniversary
A former Chief Justice of India’s Supreme Court has condemned the country’s ban on same-sex relationships a year to the day the law was reintroduced. K G Balakrishnan, Chair of the National Human...
View ArticleA year ago today India recriminalised homosexuality
It’s exactly one year since India shocked the world by recriminalising same-sex relationships. On 11 December 2013 India’s Supreme Court upheld a colonial-era law which criminalises same-sex sexual...
View ArticleWaitrose expresses no regret for donating to event run by café owner who...
Waitrose has expressed no regret over the comments of a Cambridgeshire café owner who preached anti-gay hatred in Uganda and received a donation from the supermarket in order to provide Christmas...
View ArticleHRC urges Obama to take tough action against anti-gay Gambian leaders
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has joined 13 other human rights groups in urging the Obama Administration to take additional action against Gambian leaders following the regime’s ongoing crackdown and...
View ArticleNigeria: 12 arrested over ‘gay wedding’
Twelve men have been arrested in the north Nigerian city of Kano for allegedly planning a “gay wedding”. Aminu Daurawa, the head of the Islamic law-enforcement agency, Hisbah, said the individuals,...
View ArticleObama urged to raise Brunei’s anti-gay laws in trade deal talks
President Obama has been urged to raise the subject of LGBT rights in trade talks with Brunei. Brunei is one of 11 nations to join the United States in signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which if...
View ArticleJudge: India’s anti-gay law is ‘discriminatory’ and mentally damaging
The chairman of India’s Law Commission has condemned the country’s Supreme Court for recriminalising homosexuality. “Section 377 is discriminatory in its application, unreasonable in its intent,...
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