Discrimination and Equality

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Added on: 09/11/2020
09/10/2020
Few interviews have received such media attention in Hungary recently as that given by Germany’s Europe Minister Michael Roth. In the interview with t-online, published on August…

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Added on: 09/11/2020
09/10/2020
Teachers in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg have been instructed to monitor their students’ social media profiles for the presence of “LGBT symbols,” the LGBT Network…

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Added on: 09/11/2020
09/10/2020
A Labor Day rally for Trump supporters in Salem, Ore., took a dark turn when a speaker called for the murder of pro-LGBTQ Democratic lawmakers, prompting cheers…

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Added on: 09/10/2020
09/09/2020
Several civic groups gathered outside the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Wednesday in competing protests on the issue of a gay-themed children’s book that the government has…

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Added on: 09/10/2020
The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) said the granting of absolute pardon to US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton is an “injustice” not only to…

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Added on: 09/10/2020
09/10/2020
A Duke University graduate with ties to an anti-LGBT group has been included in President Donald Trump’s list of nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Allison…

World Voices

Added on: 09/09/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
Can you tell me about the image you made that circulated social media platforms in support of Julie Khan? I met Julie last year at the 2019…

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Added on: 09/08/2020
09/08/2020
Argentina’s president is now requiring 1% of public sector jobs be set aside for transgender people. In a decree signed by President Alberto Fernández signed a decree…

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Added on: 09/08/2020
09/08/2020
Try searching for hashtags related to LGBT issues in countries like Russia, Bosnia, and Jordan on TikTok and you might find no results, even if you were…

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Added on: 09/08/2020
09/08/2020
In Ukraine, the often tense public battle over “traditional values” rumbles on – but in the courtroom. In 2018, 80 Ukrainian local authorities called on the country’s…

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Added on: 09/08/2020
09/07/2020
A Croatian gay couple fostered two children after a legal battle becoming the first same-sex couple to be granted the right in the largely Catholic country, an…

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Added on: 09/08/2020
09/07/2020
Russia could be set to follow in the footsteps of Hungary with a proposed law that would legally erase transgender people. Proposed amendments to Russia’s Family Code,…

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Added on: 09/07/2020
09/06/2020
Advocates are calling for Japan to create national legislation to protect LGBT individuals from being outed, as the current piecemeal approach is failing to tackle the damaging…

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Added on: 09/07/2020
09/06/2020
After swapping nude photos with Blessing on WhatsApp, Chioma set out to meet her prospective lover but was accosted on the road by a man in military…

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Added on: 09/07/2020
The Indonesian government should urgently investigate a police raid on a private gathering of 56 men in Jakarta that highlights the threat to the rights of lesbian,…

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Added on: 09/07/2020
09/06/2020
LGBTQI students are at high risk of mental health problems, including anxiety disorders and depression. Queer specific initiatives are being introduced at Australian Universities to combat the…

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Added on: 09/06/2020
09/05/2020
The gruesome killing on Saturday of a second transgender woman in northern Mexico has unnerved the local transgender community and amplified calls for greater protections in the…

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Added on: 09/06/2020
09/05/2020
The first Black woman is on a major party presidential ticket, Americans of all races are showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and at…

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Added on: 09/06/2020
09/04/220
Lil’ Daddee struts onto the stage wearing a fake mustache and a boiler suit covered in grease stains. The performer picks up a large bicycle pump and…

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Added on: 09/06/2020
09/05/2020
Rishabh Singh vividly remembers September 6, 2018, the day he says his life changed. Two years ago on this day, the Supreme Court had struck down the…

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Added on: 09/05/2020
09/04/2020
Russian politicians are weighing a chance to the country’s Family Code that would prevent transgender citizens from changing their legal gender to match their actual gender. The…

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Added on: 09/05/2020
09/04/2020
The Kay Trans Haiti center located in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is funded by a Spanish healthcare company and the United Nations Development Program and provides lodging and…

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Added on: 09/05/2020
Governor Martyn Roper assented to what is now called the Civil Partnership Law on Friday, paving the way for same-sex couples in the Cayman Islands to register…

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Added on: 09/04/2020
A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines will remain behind bars while a court considers an appeal against a decision to release…

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Added on: 09/04/2020
09/03/2020
LGBT+ people in Hong Kong can log discrimination through a new mobile app backed by one of the city’s most prominent property heiresses, in a first for…

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Added on: 09/04/2020
09/03/2020
The presidential election in Belarus on 9 August was conducted the way many previous elections were conducted: opposition candidates were harassed and hounded out of the country;…

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Added on: 09/04/2020
09/03/2020
The LGBT+ activist whose arrest sparked protests that were dubbed the “Polish Stonewall” says she is not afraid to resume her hunger strike and die if that…

World Voices

Added on: 09/03/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
What was it like to grow up as a queer person in Belarus? My story was, to a large extent, about invisibility. When I was growing up,…

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Added on: 08/31/2020
08/31/2020
As Anna remembers it, there were a dozen women standing outside the ladies’ room, barring one of her fellow tutors from going in. The reason? She looked…

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Added on: 08/31/2020
08/30/2020
The Colorado headquarters of the viciously anti-LGBT+ organisation Focus on the Family, which insists being gay causes “death and disease”, has been declared a COVID-19 outbreak site….