The influential Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) found current marriage law violates equality and contravenes Articles 13 and 14 of Japan’s Constitution.
‘Therefore, the state should allow same-sex marriage and promptly revise the relevant laws and regulations’ a summary of the findings said.
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/equal-marriage-in-japan-just-got-a-major-legal-boost/#gs.rd1emq
Canada’s “LGBT purge” is the name given to policies which lasted from the 1950s until the 1990s, under which Canadian federal employees were discharged, demoted, and discriminated against for being LGBT+.
A new sensitivity over discrimination in the secular world is making it harder for religious institutions to apply a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/france-to-end-12-month-gay-blood-donation-ban/#gs.qg14q9
On Wednesday morning (17 July), Health Minister Agnès Buzyn announced France would reduce the ‘deferral period’ down to four months. This would apply to MSM who had abstained from sex or were in a monogamous sexual relationship.
Registration for the Call It Hate project conference “LGBTI People and Violence in Europe: studying attitudes, changing minds” (Budapest, 26-27 September) is now open.
http://lgbthatecrime.eu/news/registration-for-budapest-international-conference-lgbti-people-and-violence-in-europe-studying-attitudes-changing-minds-is-now-open-189
in: Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal (Vol. 10, no. 1, 2017)
The government’s support for schools attacked for promoting LGBT+ inclusion has been “half-hearted” and has left many teachers “exposed”, public figures and religious activists say.
Author Philip Pullman and Tory MP Crispin Blunt are among 77 signatories of a letter to the education secretary following months of protests outside schools against LGBT+ lessons.
The open letter says government guidance, which says primary schools are encouraged to cover LGBT+ content if they consider it “age appropriate”, has been “weakly ambiguous”.
12 June 2019 – Countries overwhelmingly voted to hold nations to account on LGBTI issues
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the current mandate holder, is chosen by the United Nations to further LGBTI rights.
| https://www.icj.org/india-icj-submission-on-lgbtq-persons-inadequate-access-to-public-spaces-and-the-impact-on-their-cultural-rights/ The International Commission of Jursits (ICJ) has made a submission to Ms. Karima Bennoune, the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (“Special Rapporteur”) in response to a call for submission, in advance of her forthcoming report to the General Assembly on how actors from across the cultural ecosystem access and use public spaces and the impact this has on their cultural rights. ICJ’s submission draws on its ongoing work on the human rights of LGBTQ persons in India and includes findings from the ICJ’s forthcoming report on the rights of LGBTQ persons in the home, at work and in public spaces. The ICJ, concludes that LGBTQ persons’ rights to adequate housing, decent work, and equal access to public spaces are frequently violated throughout India. The interviews conducted by the ICJ reveals that LGBTQ persons have challenges in accessing a variety of public spaces including streets, public transport, sanitation facilities, cultural and religious events, parks and shopping malls, challenges which are not faced by, or not faced in the same way by, non-LGBTQ persons. The ICJ submits that these findings are in contravention of Indian constitutional law and international human rights law. Read the full submission here. |
