MADRID — (05-10-23) — Spain's Constitutional Court announced on Tuesday it would consider a legal challenge brought by the right wing Vox party against a new LGBT Rights Law that protects transgender teenagers and encourages tolerance for sexual diversity in schools. The wide-ranging LGBT Rights Law passed in February and allows any Spanish citizen over [...]
KAMPALA, UG — (04-21-23) — President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda announced on Thursday that he would not sign an anti-LGBTQ Bill into law, a controversial new bill against homosexuality that prescribes the death penalty in violation of the anti-Human Rights law. Museveni’s decision was announced late on Thursday after a meeting of parliamentarians in his [...]
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — (03-19-23) — Gay rights activists in the Serb-run part of Bosnia were assaulted on Saturday, hours after police banned an LGBT planned event over the weekend, citing security concerns. The assault took place as gay rights activists were leaving a meeting at the offices of the Bosnian branch of the global anti-corruption [...]
KYIV, UKRAINE — (03-08-23) — Ukraine’s former deputy culture minister announced on Tuesday that Zelensky's government is proposing to legalize same-sex civil partnerships, saying it would both reward the service of LGBTQ soldiers and please the European Union. Inna Sovsun of the Golos party announced on Tuesday that she has submitted the same-sex civil partnership [...]
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — (02-13-23) — Human rights NGOs are calling on European Union countries to join the Commission's court case against Hungary's "anti-LGBTIQ+ propaganda" law. Brussels initiated its infringement procedure against Budapest back in July 2021, shortly after the right wing conservative government of right wing dark age Prime Minister Viktor Orban, adopted the outrageous [...]