Yesterday the Human Rights Campaign issued a 67-page report titled "'They Want Us Exterminated': Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq" that claims that Iraqi militias are "carrying out a sprea
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LGBT Rights in Bahrain: homosexuality, gay marriage, gay adoption, serving in the military, sexual orientation discrimination protection, changing legal gender, donating blood, age of consent, and more.
In line with Puar’s work, most of the LGBTIQ+ religious people seeking asylum I have met in the UK face two possible scenarios: to be ‘freed’ from religious oppression through the ‘liberatory’ Home Office’s asylum machinery, or to live, from a secularist point of view, an ‘irrat...
Omar’s experience is one of 257 LGBT+ Iraqi testimonies that form the basis ofFighting for the Right to Life: The State of LGBT+ Human Rights in Iraq. The report was compiled by advocacy groupIraQueerand a partner group that wishes to remain anonymous for safety reasons. The year-long ...
UK armed forces banned gay personnel from serving until a European Court of Human Rights ruling in 2000. 9. Although women constituted only about 2% of military personnel, in making his book Bérubé interviewed 71 people who served in World War Two, of which 8 were women. 10. For further...
This process can be reconciled with "a neoliberal appropriation of a liberal- feminist lexis that transformed equality and rights into … the illusion of women's self-empowerment and choice that flies in the face of persistent inequalities and social injustices" within theater as well as Western ...
based scholarships. "I knew they were my only ticket out of this environment," he said. At the same time, he observed the worsening state of LGBT rights in Malaysia. "Extremist religious groups had gained much more prominence, and conservatives were becoming more vocal in their view...
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members can serve openly in the military with the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The fate of tr
To identify barriers to freedoms for LGBT people that can have an effect on economic development, this part of the study draws on a review of research on the rights of LGBT people across regions and evidence of exclusion with respect to violence, workplace discrimination, and disparities in ...