ADDED ON: 05/20/2021
STRASBOURG, France (CN) — Iceland wasn’t wrong to deny parental rights to a lesbian couple who had a child via surrogacy, Europe’s top rights court held Tuesday. The European Court of Human…
ADDED ON: 06/26/2020
Germany, Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Finland. These countries are among those with the lowest numbers of cases, deaths and, so far, the best responses to the coronavirus crisis. They…
ADDED ON: 02/03/2020
The parliament of this island country in the North Atlantic declared today it is increasing its travel ban to include American evangelicals who are members of the newly formed anti-LGBT Methodist denomination.…
ADDED ON: 10/24/2019
An updated study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law ranked the world's nations by levels of LGBT acceptance. The current report updates and expands a previous Williams Institute report,…
ADDED ON: 09/10/2019
On 24 October 1975 90% of all women in Iceland went on strike. Twenty-five thousand women – more than 10% of the country’s population – made their way to the parliamentary square…
ADDED ON: 09/08/2019
As Mike Pence pulled up to Höfði House in Reykjavík, he was met not only by Iceland’s president, Guðni Jóhannesson, but also a row of rainbow flags. An office block belonging to…
ADDED ON: 06/21/2019
Iceland passed a law on Tuesday (18 June) making it easier for transgender and non-binary individuals to change their personal identification. The Icelandic Parliament passed the Gender Autonomy Act. This allows people…
ADDED ON: 06/01/2019
On May 24, 2019, same-sex couples in Taiwan registered their unions as the country’s historic new law legally recognizing same-sex marriages went into effect. On the same day, Kenya’s high court ruled…
ADDED ON: 02/21/2019
The future health of Iceland's intersex children has been put at risk with the removal of protections from a draft law that promotes transgender rights, the country's leading intersex activist said on…
ADDED ON: 01/07/2019
Despite being one of the more socially liberal countries, Iceland still has a ban on gay men donating blood. One of the chief epidemiologists in Iceland has urged the government to lift the…
ADDED ON: 05/21/2018
The Directorate of Immigration (UTL) is contradicting its own policies, and appears to be breaking United Nations guidelines, when it comes to the recent case of a trans refugee in Iceland that…
ADDED ON: 05/15/2018
Countries across Europe need to do more to protect the rights of LGBTI people, according to a new index, which says law and policy advances have slowed down across the region. The…
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