Malaysia’s Prime Minister decries LGBTQ rights as “Western values”

• Released Date: 27-Oct-2018

Last month, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said that his country could not accept LGBTQ rights. At the time, he was responding to a report that called on Malaysia to introduce better LGBTQ rights.

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Mahathir Mohamad claims LGBT rights are ‘Western values’ that will not be embraced in Malaysia

• Released Date: 26-Oct-2018

The blunt remarks come against a backdrop of what activists say is a growing intolerance towards the LGBT community in Malaysia.

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Northern Ireland vote makes same-sex marriage and abortion one step closer

• Released Date: 25-Oct-2018

Northern Ireland might have just moved one step closer to legalizing marriage equality and abortion.

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Trump administration eyeing new policy that could legally erase millions of transgender people

• Released Date: 21-Oct-2018

US President Donald Trump and his administration are considering implementing a memo that would change the definition of sex and negatively affect an estimated 1.4 million people in the US who do not identify as their birth gender.

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Asturias will pass its first law regulating gender reassignment treatment

• Released Date: 19-Oct-2018

While the UK is debating whether to reform the GRA, the autonomous region of Asturias is about to pass its first law protecting trans rights.

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Could Thailand become the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage?

• Released Date: 17-Oct-2018

Thailand may beat Taiwan to become the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.

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Malaysian leader wants children to be taught not to be LGBTI from a young age

• Released Date: 17-Oct-2018

Sri Dr Harussani Zakaria is the Mufti of Perak and made the comments that family education will become critical to ‘tackling immoral phenomena’,

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Australian PM moves to ban religious schools from expelling LGBTI students

• Released Date: 13-Oct-2018

Australia’s prime minister says he will make clear legal amendments to make clear that religious schools should not be allowed to expel LGBTI students.

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Leading lawyer group tells Malaysian leaders to stop exploiting the LGBTQ community for political gain

• Released Date: 07-Oct-2018

Lawyers for Liberty have condemned Malaysian authorities for their comments around the LGBTQ community, and called on them to stop using the community for their own political gain.

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Tokyo adopts ordinance banning discrimination against LGBT community

• Released Date: 05-Oct-2018

In a bid to curtail hate speech ahead of the 2020 Games, Tokyo on Friday adopted an anti-discrimination ordinance aimed at protecting the LGBT community.

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Singapore has not curbed power of anti-gay law, says Attorney General

• Released Date: 03-Oct-2018

Singapore’s Attorney General still has the right to prosecute under Singapore’s anti-gay law, Section 377A, he said on Tuesday (2 October).

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Trump administration will deny visas to same-sex partners of diplomats

• Released Date: 02-Oct-2018

The Trump administration has started denying visas to the partners of same-sex diplomats unless they are married. Most countries do not have marriage equality but the policy will apply even if same-sex marriages are illegal in the diplomat’s home cou

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