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Namibian court overturns anti-gay laws
Reuters and Bloomberg, Published on 22/06/2024
» WINDHOEK, Namibia - The High Court in Namibia has declared two colonial-era laws that criminalised same-sex acts between men unconstitutional, in a landmark win for the LGBTQ community in the southern African country.
Botswana to rule on scrapping anti-gay laws
AFP, Published on 10/06/2019
» GABORONE, Botswana: Botswana could decriminalise gay sex on Tuesday when its high court is due to rule in a landmark case being watched across Africa after Kenya recently upheld its own anti-homosexuality laws.
Botswana scraps anti-gay laws in landmark decision
AFP, Published on 11/06/2019
» GABORONE (BOTSWANA) - Botswana's High Court ruled Tuesday in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, handing down a landmark verdict greeted with joy by gay rights campaigners.
Botswana court hears bid to scrap anti-gay laws
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» GABORONE (BOTSWANA) - The High Court in Botswana on Thursday started hearing an application seeking to decriminalise homosexuality, in a landmark case for Africa's legal response to same-sex relationships.
Anti-gay laws are 'wrong', British PM tells ex-colonies
AFP, Published on 18/04/2018
» LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday told former colonies anti-gay laws once imposed by her country "were wrong then, and they are wrong now".
Singapore, Vietnam ease anti-gay laws; Indonesia urged to look other way
South China Morning Post, Published on 24/08/2022
» Indonesia’s top Islamic scholars have urged Jakarta not to follow the lead of neighbouring countries in decriminalising gay sex, as many in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation continue to view same-sex relationships as deviant.
Anti-abortion laws and radicalisation
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/12/2020
» 'Get your rosaries off our ovaries," chanted the women marching in support of the referendum that made abortion legal in Ireland in 2018. Two years later the 2020 election broke the century-long stranglehold on power of the two centre-right parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. They got fewer than half the votes even together.
Gay marriage, abortion laws liberalised in N.Ireland
AFP, Published on 22/10/2019
» BELFAST: Same-sex marriage and abortion laws in Northern Ireland were liberalised on Monday in a landmark shift for the province aimed at bringing it into line with mainland Britain but which has stoked resentment.
Pope apologises for anti-gay slur
Reuters, Published on 28/05/2024
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, widely quoted as having used a highly derogatory word to describe the LGBT community, did not intend to use homophobic language and apologises to anyone offended by it, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
Folau 'anti-gay' crowdfunding campaign shut down
AFP, Published on 24/06/2019
» SYDNEY - A crowdfunding campaign by controversial Australian rugby star Israel Folau, who was sacked last month for homophobic comments, was shut down Monday over concerns about "discrimination" and "exclusion".