Tag: Qatar
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LGBTQ athletes welcome in homophobic Qatar, say World Championships organisers
LGBTQ athletes and supporters are welcome at the World Championships in Qatar but must respect the rules of the country, where homosexuality is illegal, organisers have said.
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Qatar: Censorship Ignores Rights, FIFA Rules
The government of Qatar should change its laws to end arbitrary censorship of articles about sexual orientation and gender identity and revoke its Penal Code provision that punishes same-sex relations with imprisonment between one to three years, Human Rights Watch said today. Qatar is host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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Tatchell In Russia for LGBT+ Rights
LGBT+ and Human Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is in Moscow to protest at the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.



