by admin_HRWF | Oct 7, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
Court of appeal dismisses Home Office’s case against lesbian asylum seeker known as PN. By Diane Taylor The Guardian (28.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/3deq8CE – The Home Office has lost a case in the court of appeal against a 27-year-old lesbian...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 1, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Poland, Iraq and Bangladesh in the spotlight during a webinar in Brussels. Strategies to strengthen protections and improve funding mechanisms discussed. By Brianna Hertford, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (01.10.2020) – During 2020, LGBTQI people...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 22, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
62% of Iranian LGBTI experience one or more forms of violence perpetuated by their immediate family; nearly 30% of them experience sexual violence and more than 77% of them physical violence; close to 38% of them are under pressure for forced marriage. 6Rang...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 22, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Violent incidents rose during the coronavirus as the pandemic heightened prejudice and threw up new barriers to justice, the human rights ombudsman said. Reuters (15.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/3hSFCwN – At least 63 members of Colombia’s...
by admin_HRWF | Aug 25, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
In Mexico, LGBT+ people often are subjected to conversion therapy aimed at trying to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, but now lawmakers want it to stop. By Oscar Lopez Thomson Reuters Foundation (17.08.2020) –...
