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Uganda passes law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ
Reuters, Published on 22/03/2023
» KAMPALA: Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence.
Aid groups push to feed Yemen's hungry millions
Reuters, Published on 22/04/2022
» HAJJAH/AL MAHRA, Yemen: A two-month ceasefire has given aid groups a chance to step up aid to Yemen's hungry millions, but malnutrition ravaging children is projected to worsen if fighting returns or humanitarian funding does not pick up.
Myanmar judge jails Reuters reporters for 7 years
Reuters, Published on 03/09/2018
» YANGON: A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and sentenced them to seven years in prison, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards democracy in the Southeast Asian country.
Rights agency rebuffs Duterte's 'Are you a paedophile?' question
Reuters, Published on 17/09/2017
» MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte taunted the head of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Saturday, asking if he was a paedophile because of his focus on the killing of teenagers in the government's bloody war on drugs.
Malaysia refuses to criminalise child marriage
Reuters, Published on 06/04/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian MP said girls as young as nine were "physically and spiritually" ready for marriage, as the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country passed a law on sexual offences against children without criminalising child marriage.
China: Gender imbalance world's worst
Reuters, Published on 21/01/2015
» BEIJING — Chinese health authorities on Wednesday described the gender imbalance among new-borns as "the most serious and prolonged" in the world, a direct ramification of the country's strict one-child policy.