Switzerland: „Homophobic Discrimination is as Bad as Racism“ Says Federal Tribunal and Invokes ECtHR Case Law — SOGIESC Law
Arrêt du Tribunal Fédéral du 31 octobre 2019, in French, 6B_673/2019 Cour de droit pénal
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A criminal investigation in Russia has been opened under the charge of “sexual assault” after a video in which children ask a gay man questions about his life and sexuality was posted online
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-50508431/russians-under-threat-over-gay-qa-video
Poland has been witnessing another wave of right-wing campaigning - this time against “LGBT ideology” https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/actuel/actualites/petition-poland-from-anti-gender-to-anti-lgbt/
Israel: Gay dads told by government one must register as their child’s mother as ‘there is always one who is more dominant’
Ugandan police charge 67 people with ‘causing a nuisance’ after harrowing raid on gay-friendly bar
The legalisation of same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands has been reversed
United Nations expert slams Australian media over treatment and ‘betrayal’ of trans people
Prize for research work on gender identity and sexual orientation issues with practical relevance to combat discrimination
The University of Padova (Italy) has published the call: Prize for
research work on gender identity and sexual orientation issues with
practical relevance to combat discrimination.
The prize is awarded to young researchers (Ph.D candidates, Post-Doc Fellows, scholars who gained their doctorates no more than 7 years ago) carrying out or having carried out research activities on the subject of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia in European Universities or Research Institutes. Assessment should focus on scientific articles on gender identity and sexual orientation issues with practical relevance tocombate discrimination, published in 2018-2019 in peer-reviewed international scientific journals or in press, in vehicular language.
International and Comparative SOGIESC Law - Professor Andreas R Ziegler 