NDTV | Indian ban on gay sex violates international law: UN Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - A decision by the Indian Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on gay sex represents a "significant step backwards for India" and violates international law, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Thursday, suggesting the ... India's Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Gay Sex Law |
Foreign Policy | Indian Court Reverses Gay Sex Decriminalization; Blast at Kabul International ... Foreign Policy In a blow to human rights in India, the Supreme Court upheld a 153-year-old law criminalizing gay sex on Wednesday (BBC, The Hindu, Indian Express, NYT). Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code classifies gay sex as an "unnatural offence" and awards a ... |
Oneindia | Court shoots down short-lived same-sex marriage law in Canberra, Australia CNN The Australian court's decision is the latest setback for gay rights in the Asia-Pacific region. On Wednesday, India's top court ruled that sex between consenting homosexual partners is illegal in the country, prompting dismay from human rights groups. After India, Australian court rejects law allowing gay marriages High Court strikes down gay marriage laws Australia Overturns Same-Sex Marriage, Reaffirms the Truth About Marriage |
A new "Rainbow Tick" of certification will be available from next year to businesses and organisations which can prove they cut the glbti-friendly mustard.
A New Jersey Senate panel has approved a bill which would allow the state's health department to re-issue birth certificates to trans or intersex people who have not undergone gender reassignment surgery.
It has emerged that BBC presenters are allowed to promote National Christmas Day and Movember but are banned from promoting World AIDS Day. On World AIDS Day 2011, the BBC broadcast an extended film about a presenter shaving off his 'Movember' moustache to raise awareness for prostate cancer, in apparent contravention of its own rules.
A gay author in Montreal has been fully reimbursed after cancelling a trip to Russia he had booked before the country introduced its notorious anti-gay "propaganda" laws earlier this year.
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