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Added on: 02/21/2020

China HIV patients risk running out of AIDS drugs in days – UNAIDS

01/20/2020

HIV patients in China risk running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because quarantines and lockdowns aimed at containing the coronavirus disease outbreak mean they cannot replenish vital…

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Added on: 02/20/2020

Indonesia could force LGBT people into rehabilitation under draft ‘family resilience’ law

01/19/2020

A proposed bill to be considered by Indonesian Parliament would compel people with “deviant” sexual persuasions to undergo “rehabilitation”. The so-called Family Resilience Bill, which covers many…

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Added on: 02/19/2020

African countries must scrap outdated laws and fully legalise same-sex relations

02/18/2020

Sixty-eight countries around the world continue to criminalise same-sex relations. Almost half of them are based in Africa, comprising more than half the continent. These laws are…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

As Australia looks to act on LGBT conversion practices, survivors and religious groups speak out

01/17/2020

Raised in an ultra-conservative Anglican family, transgender woman Roe Johnson says she spent her childhood being told she was broken. The 49-year-old from Melbourne says she lived…

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Added on: 02/17/2020

Indonesians Are Turning To Exorcisms to ‘Cure’ Members of the LGBTQ Community

02/16/2020

After evening prayer at the mosque, 33-year-old Syifa’s* parents asked her to lie down on a prayer rug. As they recited verses from the Quran, Syifa tried…

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Added on: 02/14/2020

Who should decide when a child can change gender?

01/13/2020

It was a case that tore a family apart – and exposed the faultlines in an increasingly bitter global row over the rights of a child to…

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Added on: 02/13/2020

Man charged with the murder of gay journalist and activist Lyra McKee

02/12/2020

Northern Ireland police have charged a 52-year-old man in connection with the murder of gay journalist Lyra McKee. McKee, 29, was shot dead while reporting on riots…

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Added on: 02/11/2020

South Dakota Senate Committee kills controversial gender-change bill

02/10/2020

In a 5-2 vote on Monday, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to kill a bill that aimed to ban gender-change treatments for youth under…

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Added on: 02/07/2020

National firestorm on horizon as states consider criminalizing transgender treatments for youths

02/06/2020

Rep. Fred Deutsch, sponsor of the South Dakota’s HB 1057, said he introduced the bill Jan. 14 to prevent doctors from pushing children to change their bodies….

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Added on: 02/06/2020

Guyana gay-rights manifesto: Seeking support from political parties

02/05/2020

Gay rights advocates in Guyana have compiled a manifesto aimed at persuading Guyanese political parties to embrace measures to end repression of the LGBT community. News Room…

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Added on: 02/04/2020

LGBTIQ+ Nigerians get new chat and counseling mobile app

02/03/2020

NoStrings Development Initiatives, Nigeria’s leading LGBTIQ+ media advocacy group, has launched a new social and counseling mobile app for the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and…

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Added on: 02/04/2020

Rising populism stokes homophobic hate speech across Europe

02/02/2020

Homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and other anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are rising across Europe, fuelled by divisive politics and socially conservative groups that also campaign against abortion access,…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

Indonesia: Rejecting homophobic pseudoscience

01/29/2020

Sensational headlines, clickbait articles and pseudoscience cannot be tolerated when they promote fear and hatred. Many in the media, including writers and editors, use these techniques to…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

South Dakota Lawmakers Just Voted to Send Doctors to Jail for Helping Trans Kids

01/29/2020

After hours of heated (and often comically inaccurate) debate, South Dakota’s House of Representatives on Wednesday became the first in the country to greenlight a bill that…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

Amnesty International urges Korea to take action on LGBT rights

01/29/2020

Amnesty International on Thursday expressed concerns about the rights of sexual minorities in South Korea in its yearly human rights report, calling on the government and parliament…

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Added on: 01/29/2020

A GOP lawmaker, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, compared doctors treating transgender children to Nazis

01/28/2020

The South Dakota legislature is considering the nation’s first law that could send doctors to jail for treating transgender youths younger than 16 with hormone therapy or…

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Added on: 01/28/2020

Queensland religious groups fight move to make gay conversion therapy a crime

01/27/2020

Religious schools and organisations are fighting a move by the Queensland government to make LGBT-related conversion therapy a crime in the state. In late November, the Queensland…

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Added on: 01/26/2020

Denver school board votes to require gender neutral bathrooms in all public schools

01/25/2020

A new school board for Denver Public Schools unanimously passed a resolution in its first meeting requiring all district schools to have at least one all-gender bathroom….

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Added on: 01/25/2020

Scandal overshadows Peru election’s focus on gender equality

01/24/2020

Scandals involving domestic violence and marital infidelity have overshadowed the campaign to elect a new congress in Peru, in which gender equality and women’s rights have been…

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Added on: 01/24/2020

Dozens of anti-LGBTQ state bills already proposed in 2020, advocates warn

01/23/2020

Like most high school students, Aerin Geary does not typically pay attention to state legislation. However, the South Dakota teenager has been closely following House Bill 1057,…

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Added on: 01/23/2020

Israel agrees to Russia’s no-LGBT adoptions rule

01/22/2020

Israel and Russia signed an adoption agreement on Wednesday, after a decade of negotiations, stipulating that same-sex couples may not adopt children from Russia. The countries finalized…

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Added on: 01/22/2020

Ecuador’s LGBT+ community seen suffering deadliest year in a decade

01/21/2020

Last year was the deadliest in at least a decade for gay and transgender people in Ecuador, campaigners have said, citing a possible backlash against new laws…

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Added on: 01/20/2020

Human Rights in the South Caucasus: 2019 victories and losses

01/20/2020

The Human Rights Watch report states that Azerbaijani authorities continue to exact tight control over the political system and persecute critics. There was at least one known…

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Added on: 01/19/2020

UK Reports Massive Decline In HIV Rates

01/18/2020

The British government has reported a massive decline in the number of people diagnosed with HIV since 2012. According to figures released by Public Health England, new…

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Added on: 01/19/2020

LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youth

01/18/2020

At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people. One batch of…

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Added on: 01/19/2020

Scotland: Catholic Church opposes ‘troubling’ reforms to gender recognition lawsin

01/18/2020

The Catholic Church has called on its congregation to oppose proposed reforms to gender recognition laws in Scotland, which it called “troubling”. It also said that trans…

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Added on: 01/15/2020

Russia: Race to the Bottom on Rights

01/14/2020

Repression escalated in Russia during 2019 as the government answered rising civic and political activism with bans, repressive laws, and showcase prosecutions, Human Rights Watch said today…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

House Democrats to ask ICE to release all transgender immigrants in custody

01/13/2020

House Democrats are preparing to ask the Department of Homeland Security to release all transgender immigrants being held at long-term federal immigration facilities. Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

Grief over death of Young Liberal Wilson Gavin after drag queen protest

01/13/2020

Friends and opponents alike have expressed their grief after the death of Wilson Gavin, the leader of a rightwing student club at the University of Queensland, who…

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Added on: 01/13/2020

AIDS, the Catholic Church and LGBT issues today

01/12/2020

In the series finale of ‘Plague,’ we look at what’s happening in the church in HIV and AIDS care today and then reflects on comments and questions…