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Rights groups urge Cameroon to drop charges against transgender youths
Five human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) , sent a letter letter Cameroon authorities on Friday to drop the charges against two transgender youths rather than undergoing an appeal to the Cameroon Supreme Court . The defend (More) |
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Hong Kong high court rules transgender woman can marry
Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal ruled Monday that a law prohibiting a transgender woman from marrying her boyfriend was invalid under the Chinese constitution. The law had been interpreted to hold that only a person's gender at birth could be con (More) |
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US Funds Still Supporting Honduras Death Squads
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Carasik of the Western New England School of Law says that the US must restrict aid to the Honduran government, so long as human rights abuses continue ... (More) |
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Montana formally decriminalizes same-sex intercourse
Montana Governor Steve Bullock on Thursday approved a revision to the state code that formally decriminalizes same-sex intercourse in the state. The bill struck from the state code a phrase stating that deviate sexual relations entail "sexual cont (More) |
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One Statute for Two Spirits: Same-Sex Marriage in Indian Country
JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Ann Kronk of the University of Kansas School of Law evaluates the recent approval of a measure to permit same-sex marriages in the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians... (More) |
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Supreme Court hears arguments on DOMA
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in United States v. Windsor [transcript, PDF; audio], the second of two cases the court heard this week on same-sex marriage [JURIST report; JURIST backgrounder]. In Wednesday's argument, the cour (More) |
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ACLU files suit seeking New Mexico same-sex marriage recognition
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) on Thursday filed a lawsuit in a New Mexico state court on behalf of two same-sex couples seeking the legal right to marry. According to the complaint, the country clerk denied the plaint (More) |
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Canada lawmakers vote to ban transgender discrimination
Canada's House of Commons on Wednesday approved a bill to outlaw discrimination against transgender individuals. The bill will go to the Senate, an unelected body, for final approval . The bill passed the House of Commons by a vote of 149-136 with (More) |
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Three briefs filed with Supreme Court in case challenging DOMA
Three briefs on the merits were filed with the US Supreme Court in the case US v. Windsor [docket; JURIST report] on Friday on the issues of the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text; JURIST news archive] and of whet (More) |
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Truly Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must Address LGBT Issues
JURIST Guest Columnist Victoria Neilson of Immigration Equality argues that although important steps have been taken in support of the LGBT immigrants, there are still many questions unanswered and issues unsettled that demand a continued battle on b (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
