The passing of the Marriage Equality Bill in Thailand has been called an “historic step” for LGBTQ+ rights. The Bill grants LGBTQ+ couples equal rights with heterosexual couples in relation to marriage, child adoption, healthcare consent and inheritance, among other things. The Bill will now be submitted to the Thai king for royal endorsement. Following […]
The UK government has announced that Relationships, Sex and Health Education curriculum will not be taught to children until the age of nine, a move which Amnesty International has called “dangerous”. The government’s new guidance proposes that children should not be taught sex education under the age of nine and even after this it should […]
Dr Hilary Cass today (Wednesday, April 10) published her review into the care of gender-questioning children in England and Wales, which has called for gender services to operate ‘to the same standards’ as other health services for children and young people, with ‘a holistic assessment’ of people referred. In response to the “sensationalised” coverage surrounding […]
There has been a wave of violence, arrests, death penalty cases, anal examinations and evictions since the Act was approved
A Russian court has ordered a bar administrator and its art director to be placed in custody, accusing them of organising an “extremist organisation” under new legislation criminalising the LGBTQ community. They will remain in custody until May 18 and face up to 10 years in prison, according to the court in southwestern Russia. This […]
Huthi authorities in Yemen must halt planned executions and end the persecution of people based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, said Amnesty International, after two Huthi-run courts sentenced more than 40 people either to death, flogging or prison over charges related to same-sex conduct. On 23 January, a criminal court […]
Rishi Sunak has been criticised for aiming a political jibe about trans people at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer – while the mother of murder victim Brianna Ghey attended Prime Minister’s Questions. In Prime Minister’s Questions, his weekly showdown with MPs and the leader of the opposition, Mr Sunak said the Labour leader had broken […]
LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people across Africa are facing “a catastrophic rollback on their fundamental rights following the introduction of discriminatory legislation in several countries”, Amnesty International has said. In a new briefing looking at 12 African countries, Amnesty has documented a “staggering rise” in legislation being used to systematically target and […]
In response to yesterdays’ ruling by Russia’s Supreme Court which designates the “international public LGBT movement” extremist and effectively outlaws any public activity related to LGBTQ+ issues, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “This shameful and absurd decision represents a new front in the Russian authorities’ campaign against the LGBTQ+ […]
The Supreme Court of Japan has today (October 25) issued a ruling in a family law case, declaring that the stipulation of the Special Law on Gender Identity Disorder, which mandates surgical sterilisation as a prerequisite for gender reassignment, is unconstitutional in Japan. This decision was based on the determination that the sterilisation requirement runs […]
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