Month: January 2019
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Equality matters – Bury Council praised as top employer
Bury Council has again been named one of Britain’s top ‘equal’ employers by professional lobbying group Stonewall.
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Angola Decriminalises Same-Sex Conduct
Angola has finally shed the divisive «vices against nature» provision in its law, widely interpreted to be a ban on homosexual conduct.
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Pride festival returns bigger than ever before
One of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ festivals returns to the North East this summer, with its most ambitious event to date.
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Open letter to Tunisian government: stop torture & arrests of homosexual men
In November 2018, the human rights NGO Human Rights Watch published multiple accounts of men who were arrested, prosecuted and detained for homosexuality.
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Two percent of high school students identify as transgender, CDC report finds
More than a third of these trans high school students, the CDC found, have attempted suicide in the past 12 months.
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Vigilante Raid on Indonesian HIV Group
Militant Islamists, Military, and Local Residents Storm Office