Discrimination and Equality

Global News

Added on: 04/28/2021
04/28/2021
Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people costs Eastern European countries almost 2% a year in economic growth, a coalition of dozens of global companies promoting…

Global News

Added on: 04/28/2021
04/28/2021
A 32-year-old Black gay man is in critical condition after being shot multiple times by a police officer in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Isaiah Brown was on the…

Global News

Added on: 04/28/2021
04/27/2021
The Scottish Conservative leader was asked about his position on equal marriage in Tuesday night’s debate following a report in the Daily Record that he, while a…

Global News

Added on: 04/28/2021
04/27/2021
A verdict is expected soon for eight suspects charged with murder over the killing of two Bangladeshi gay-rights activists who were hacked to death in a Dhaka…

Global News

Added on: 04/27/2021
04/26/2021
LONDON, April 26 (Openly) – It took Leonie Plastina and her wife Sonja years of careful research – poring over LGBT+ rights laws and private medical costs…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 04/26/2021
Alexander Champeau
Alturi Contributor
Four Months of Protests: LGBTI Protesters, From Bogazici to Now Starting in early January, students at Bogazici University went out into the streets to protest a new…

World Voices

Added on: 04/26/2021
Ryan Eakins
Alturi Contributor
As an individual growing up in Croatian society where LGBTQ issues are silenced and made invisible, Mima found that the most powerful tool for creating change that…

World Voices

Added on: 04/26/2021
Alturi Contributor
How did you become involved in activism? My mission in this world is to help people live safely and to help them have a good life. I…

Global News

Added on: 04/26/2021
The Commission For Gender Equality is promising to use its legal powers to protect the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) community, following a recent…

Global News

Added on: 04/26/2021
04/25/2021
Imagine a world where you live in fear, and with each waking hour that fear grows to a point where the only escape comes from the promise…

Global News

Added on: 04/25/2021
For months, government ministers spewed vicious rhetoric about gay people. Trucks blasted anti-gay hate messages from loudspeakers on the streets of Poland’s cities. Finally fed up with…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021
Several LGBTI+ and human rights organizations came together this week and released a joint press statement condemning the hate crimes that have been rocked South Africa over…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021
04/23/2021
According to NHS England, conversion therapy, sometimes called “reparative therapy” or “gay cure therapy”, is based on attempts to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021
04/22/2021
Plans for First Minister Arlene Foster to meet with LGBT organisations have been described by campaigners as “belatedly welcome”. The DUP leader is set to meet with…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, on Thursday vetoed a bill that seeks to prohibit transgender women and girls from participating on sports teams. In announcing her…

Global News

Added on: 04/24/2021
After more than 50 years of living with her partner, a Chinese lesbian woman in her late 70s faced a lawsuit from her partner’s family to return…

Global News

Added on: 04/22/2021
05/21/2021
A court’s recent ruling that same-sex couples aren’t entitled to the same property rights as married heterosexual couples has once again highlighted the legal predicaments many LGBT…

Global News

Added on: 04/22/2021
04/21/2021
The 12-member jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota, announced their verdict on Tuesday (20 April) after less than a day of deliberation. Chauvin was found guilty on three charges…

Global News

Added on: 04/22/2021
04/21/2021
Turkish prosecutors are seeking prison sentences for 97 people for taking part in one of the country’s biggest anti-government protest movements in years, sparked by the state…

Global News

Added on: 04/22/2021
04/21/2021
A sign which says “[this kindergarten] is run by lesbians” was hung on a short railing near Moatza square in Be’er Ya’acov on Wednesday, as part of…

Global News

Added on: 04/21/2021
A Namibian court ruled Monday against a gay couple demanding the right to bring their infant daughters home after being born to a surrogate in South Africa….

Global News

Added on: 04/21/2021
04/20/2021
Although attacks on LGBTQ+ young people, especially trans children, persist across the nation, some hope materialized today for New York City’s homeless LGBTQ+ population. On Tuesday, Mayor…

Global News

Added on: 04/20/2021
04/19/2021
When Rita heard rumours that her son was gay she refused to believe it. At the time, she thought that homosexuality was an abomination – a “problem”…

Global News

Added on: 04/20/2021
04/19/2021
George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they…

Global News

Added on: 04/20/2021
04/19/2021
The Chieftaincy and Religious Minister, Ebenezer Kojo Kum has asked for support from leaders of the Muslim community as measures are being put in place to prevent…

Global News

Added on: 04/20/2021
04/19/2021
Housing Authority should amend Home Ownership Scheme rules to rectify discrimination against gay couples, the high court heard yesterday. But the Housing Authority told high court judge…

Global News

Added on: 04/19/2021
04/18/2021
Malaysia is facing a serious threat to human rights and the HIV response with the announcement by a cabinet minister of the government’s plans to expand the…

Global News

Added on: 04/19/2021
04/18/2021
Five officials from the inner circle of Chechnya’s autocratic leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, are the subject of a criminal complaint in Germany for crimes against humanity, in a…

Global News

Added on: 04/19/2021
04/18/2021
A gay former extremist Caolan Robertson has said that leaving the far-right was like leaving “a cult”, and explained how homophobia contributed to his radicalisation. Robertson grew…

Global News

Added on: 04/18/2021
04/18/2021
Natasha Helfer is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist, who is also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day…