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Canada approves landmark law protecting transgender citizens
The Canadian Senate on Friday approved Bill C-16 , adding "gender identity" and "gender expression" to the list of federally prohibited grounds for discrimination under Canada's Human Rights Act. In an official statement from the Justice Department (More) |
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Texas governor signs controversial adoption bill into law
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an adoption bill into law on Thursday that allows adoption agencies receiving public funding to refuse to place children in adoptive families or foster homes that conflict with the agencies' religious beliefs. The (More) |
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UN rights committee: Ireland abortion law violates human rights
The UN Human Rights Committee found Monday that Ireland must remedy harm done to a woman in 2010, after denying her an abortion. Siobhán Whelan had to travel to the UK to receive medical care. Whelan was diagnosed [Guardian report] with fatal fetal (More) |
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UN rights expert calls for end to gender-based violence
Agnes Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday calling for governments to do more to reduce violence against women and LGBTQI individuals. (More) |
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Federal appeals court rules for transgender student on school bathroom policy
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday to affirmed an order allowing a transgender male student to use the boy's restroom. The Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin would not allow Ash Whitaker into the male restroom, cla (More) |
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HRW: Chechen police attempting to purge gay and bisexual men from society
According a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report , Chechen police have rounded up, beaten and humiliated dozens of men who are suspected of being gay or bisexual in an attempt to purge them from society. The report contains several interviews with victim (More) |
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Taiwan court rules in favor of same-sex marriage
Taiwan's constitutional court, the Judicial Yuan , declared on Wednesday that same-sex marriages will be legally recognized. The court has given two years for the legislature to make amendments allowing same-sex marriage, and a draft of the bill is (More) |
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Texas senate sends 'religious refusal' adoption bill to governor
Texas' Republican-controlled Senate gave final approval to a bill that would enable publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to refuse the placement of children with non-Christian, unmarried or gay prospective parents due to religious object (More) |
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Connecticut governor signs 'conversion therapy' ban
Connecticut Governor Danial Malloy on Wednesday signed into a law a measure to ban gay conversion therapy. House Bill 6695 was passed by the legislature to end the practice of using various measures in order to force people to disavow their same (More) |
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Tennessee governor signs 'natural and ordinary meaning' bill
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Friday signed SB 1085 into law which mandates that undefined laws be given their natural and ordinary meaning. Dubbed the "natural and ordinary meaning" law, it requires that "undefined words be given their natura (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
