The world is off track to end AIDS by 2030 not because of a lack of knowledge, capability or means but because of structural inequalities that stand in the way. For example, research shows that punitive laws regarding sexual orientation double the likelihood of acquiring HIV for gay men and other men who have sex with men. Repealing such laws is central to beating the HIV pandemic.
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.
US: Department of Education Publishes Memorandum Misconstruing Supreme Court’s Bostock Decision
The Human Rights Campaign responded to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights publication of a memorandum misconstruing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people, and its application to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
US: Lambda Legal Condemns 400-Page, Nine-Agency “Monstrosity” of a Federal Rule Change
SAA announces venue change for 2021 International Conference on AIDS & STIs in Africa
The Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA), organizers of the International Conference on AIDS & STIs in Africa (ICASA), would like to inform with deep regret, all partners, stakeholders, delegates and the international community, that unfortunately ICASA 2021 will no longer be held in Kampala, Uganda from 6th - 11th December 2021 as planned as a result of circumstances beyond our control.
US: New Federal Contractors’ Rule Creates “Essentially Limitless” Exemption for Discrimination
UK: Amnesty warns of 'giant leap backwards' as Human Rights Act threatened
Inter-American commission blasts Jamaica’s anti-gay laws
Quality sex education has broad, long-term benefits for young people’s’ physical and mental health
Union of Equality: The Commission presents its first-ever strategy on LGBTIQ equality in the EU
Argentina: Presentation of the bill for the comprehensive protection of sexual characteristics
This afternoon the bill for the "Comprehensive Protection of Sexual Characteristics" entered the National Chamber of Deputies, authored by the National Deputy Gabriela Estévez with the support of Intersex Justice, Abosex, the Intersex Plurinational Network and the LGTBIQ + League of the Provinces. The project is presented within the framework of the Intersex Visibility Weeks (October 26 - November 8).