The UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran has expressed concern over reports that the country has subjected lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children to “torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.”
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Union of Equality: The Commission presents its first-ever strategy on LGBTIQ equality in the EU
Norway outlaws hate speech against trans and bisexual people
Turkey: State of Emergency is Still Going on for LGBTI+’s!
As Women for Women's Human Rights - New Ways Association and Kaos GL Association, we met in Istanbul between November 8-9 2019 at the 2 day Solidarity Keeps Alive Workshop in Istanbul to discuss how to fight together as feminists and LGBTI+ activists against right-wing conservative attacks that have become more and more organized over the recent years and describing itself as anti-gender movements.
Poland: "Homophobes have been given the green light and state protection."
It's not that gays have suddenly started to grow massively like mushrooms in the forest, that there is no such basket in which all these mushrooms could fit - explains Mike Urbaniak. We talked about the situation of LGBT + people in Poland, about ways to fight the political abuse of the community and about the cultural war that surrounds us.
Denmark: Government wants to protect transgender people with racism clause
Denmark: Organization sees risk in extending racism clause
The Social Democrats have proposed extending the "racism clause" so that it becomes illegal to mock or demean people because of their gender identity or gender expression. But the Danish Journalists' Association's deputy chairman, Allan Boye Thulstrup, believes this is too far an interference with freedom of expression.