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Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo calls for LGBTQ+ rights in Dickey talk
31 Oct 2025 09:11 GMT
On Oct. 29, human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo described a “steep … the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” according to the Associated Press … do? Would he stone a gay person, or would he love … and say, ‘I’m a gay man.’” Opiyo said. “It is …
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Lord Wolfson: British Jews like me are the canary in the coal mine
14 Dec 2025 18:32 GMT
… General, who appear to regard human rights law as something akin to tablets … sees a banner that says ‘Gays for Palestine’, is that the …
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Anti-gay Family Watch denies ‘any role’ in Uganda’s harsh law. But it fed Uganda’s homophobia.
22 Nov 2025 00:47 GMT
… the homophobic climate where anti-gay legislation thrives.
Sharon … on African nations’ anti-gay laws.
“Neither Family Watch … -homosexuality laws and to study ways that “international human rights law … even harsher “Kill the Gays” bill that eventually was …
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Cis, White, and Gay
20 Nov 2025 05:51 GMT
… cultural battle raging between gay and lesbian “assimilationists” on one … decades of tireless campaigning, gays earned the right to … 2001, the state’s human-rights law had included “sexual orientation” … invalidate the idea of homosexuality—since the doctrine …
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‘It’s a performance’
14 Dec 2025 07:11 GMT
… the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG), has … a tutor in criminal and human rights law at The University of the … if you feel that being gay is a sin or … the organisation’s opposition to homosexuality.
“The Jamaican Evangelical Alliance, …
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Tasmania agrees to redress scheme over laws against homosexuality and cross-dressing
06 Nov 2025 03:14 GMT
… nation’s most progressive LGBTIQA human rights laws.
“Financial redress is evidence of … past simply because they were gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.”
The Government … state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality, to being the first state …
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Gay redress scheme: Tasmania to compensate those convicted of homosexuality
05 Nov 2025 22:21 GMT
… Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise homosexuality, and it was also … for the criminalisation of homosexuality and passed legislation for … the High Court and anti-gay rallies,” he said.
“It … house in September 2024.
Human rights law expert Paula Gerber said …
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Dick Cheney’s complex legacy: The pro-gay, pro-torture vice president
05 Nov 2025 08:14 GMT
… is known for citing his lesbian daughter while voicing his public … U.S. torture program, we human rights lawyers predicted that we’d end … , “Lynne and I have a gay daughter [Mary], so it’s …
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Two fugitives who are wanted for murder and child rape in Brazil are allowed to stay in Britain after using human rights laws to avoid extradition
18 Jun 2025 16:15 GMT
… to stay in Britain under human rights laws, it has emerged.
Marlon Martins … Brazilian prisons due to being gay and married to a man … 2013 but his lawyers used human rights laws to resist his deportation, saying …
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Sacred Intersections and Civil Disobedience with Intersex Priest Sally Gross
11 Dec 2025 21:43 GMT
… this suggestion, she contacted a human rights lawyer and threatened legal action. Eventually … .
In collaboration with the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and trans activist …