The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is calling on Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo to repeal the “discriminatory” LGBTQ+ Bill passed by Ghana’s Parliament in what is widely seen as further criminalisation of LGBTQ+ communities in the West African country. The IBAHRI regards the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill (the Bill) […]
She is only the third UK Chief Constable to do so, following a similar apology by the heads of the Metropolitan and Sussex forces.
The results show a marked decline in the UK, which was top nation in 2015 and 14th place in 2022.
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All but two of Uganda’s 389 MPs have passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which introduces capital and life imprisonment sentences for gay sex and the “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities”.
LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has been arrested in Qatar today outside the National Museum of Qatar in Doha while staging a one-man protest against Qatar’s criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people
Human rights / LGBTQ+ rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has called for West Midlands Police to be banned from this weekend’s Birmingham Pride – unless senior officers apologise for past persecution of LGBTQ+ people in the region.
LGBTQ+ people from across the Commonwealth will protest at 1pm on Thursday 28 July at Aston Hall in Birmingham (B6 6JD), as the baton arrives for the start of the Commonwealth Games. They will protest again the same day at 5pm at the main entrance to Alexander Stadium.
The UN Human Rights Council has reaffirmed its commitment to combating discrimination and violence on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity
Thirty-five out of 54 member states still criminalise homosexuality
