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3 days ago |
TAGS: Culture, International Initiatives, SOGI Resolution, United Nations
The new 30 minute documentary features a very wide range of activists and policy-makers from around the world, reflecting on the international fight for rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity, at the United...
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3 days ago |
TAGS: Cape Verde, Lusophone Africa, Mindelo, Pride
In a pioneering move, Cape Verde gets ready for celebrating its first week for the rights lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender people. Local activists report that it will be only the second pride week ever to take place in...
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12 days ago |
TAGS: Church, Homophobia, Human Rights, Jamaica, LGBT Criminalization, Media, News
Jamaica is regarded as one of the most hostile places in the world for LGBT people, and was spotlighted as such by Amnesty International as part of their IDAHO actions this year. But over the past month the question of LGBT...
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20 days ago |
TAGS: GLOBAL RAINBOW FLASHMOB
Following our call, flashmobs were popular everywhere. Activists in Bangkok, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Jakarta and London took to streets with dance flashmobs. Kiss-ins marked the Day in the UK, Germany and Brazil. Rainbow...
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33 days ago |
TAGS: IDAHO Committee, netherlands, United Nations
Celebrations for the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia will continue over the week end. This week has already been marked by an unprecedented level of events, most of them successful, in over 100...
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First Openly Lesbian Latina Judge Appointed to Federal Court in the US
On Thursday, June 14, Nitza Quiñones Alejandro became the first openly lesbian Latina & Puerto Rican judge to be awarded a position on a federal bench in the United States. A graduate from the...
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Ukraine Human Rights Commissioner Calls for Action on LGBT Hate Crimes
In a landmark move, the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Valeriia Lutkovska, has outlined her support for the creation of hate crime laws to tackle violence and discrimination...
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São Paulo Pride Parade Now Largest in the World for 10 Years
Yesterday, Sunday May 2, an estimated 3 million people turned out to show their support for LGBT rights in Brazil and internationally, in the country’s largest city and economic powerhouse....
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Nigerian Human Rights Defenders’ Joint Statement on “Jail the Gays” Bill:
For Immediate Release: Nigeria human rights defenders, groups, individuals and CSOs condemn the passage of the same sex marriage prohibition bill in the House of Representatives and call for its...
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