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Argentina: Legal abortion, an achievement for women's sexual and reproductive rights

More than 30 years have passed since that unprecedented March 8th when the Argentine feminist movement first stood up with a sign that said "No to motherhood, yes to pleasure". It was the first march for International Women's Day after Argentina's return to democracy, and the first time that women had openly demanded the right to decide about their bodies and life projects.

US: Administration Launches 11th Hour Attack Against LGBTQ People, Women, Religious Minorities with Final HHS Regulation

The Human Rights Campaign responded to news that at the 11th hour the lame duck Trump-Pence White House finalized a regulation that would permit discrimination against LGBTQ people, religious minorities and women in programs related to foster care, adoption, HIV and STI prevention, youth homelessness, refugee resettlement, elder care programs and more.

Update to the ILGA State Sponsored Homophobia report

Despite considerable progress in legal protection for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, 69 UN member States continue to criminalise consensual same-sex activity, ILGA World (The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) said today.

Argentina: Silvia Lospennato defends the legalization of abortion: "No one else will decide for us"

As was the case in 2018, the national deputy for Cambiemos, Silvia Lospennato , gave an energetic closing speech in favor of the bill on voluntary interruption of pregnancy , and stressed the need to legislate and "continue fighting for freedom and equality "for women and girls to decide on their bodies.

Philippines: 11 articles to understand why the SOGIE bill is important

The recent online hearing regarding the bill, now called the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) Equality Bill presented more misconceptions about the gender orientation, the bill and the LGBTQIA+ community itself — even linking pedophilia and necrophillia.

UK: Amnesty warns of 'giant leap backwards' as Human Rights Act threatened

‘From Hillsborough, to Grenfell to the appalling mishandling of the recent Covid crisis in care homes, we have never so badly needed a means to hold the Government to account’ - Kate Allen