Posts tagged Amnesty International

Two South Korean gay soldiers were held guilty under the country’s military sodomy law for having consensual sex during off duty hours while they were …

After fleeing to Turkey from their home country of Jordan in July 2020, LGBTQI activist Alshaima Omama Alzubi has finally arrived in Australia. The 25-year-old …

The CEO of the 2022 FIFA World Cup organising committee, Nasser Al Khater, says “homosexuality is not authorised” in his home country of Qatar. In …

Several months after coming out, Footballer Kumi Yokoyama is amazed by the outpouring of support he has since received. In an interview with Japan Times, …

Brothers Salekh Magamadov (20) and Ismail Isaev (17), detained by authorities in Chechnya for the past 10 months, have announced that they would go on …

Japan is scheduled to host the Tokyo Olympics in just over a month’s time, with the first openly transgender athlete and many openly lesbian and …

A court in Armenia has directed the police to reinvestigate a 2018 brutal attack on LGBTQI activists. The Criminal Court of Appeal ruled that the …

Amnesty International has created a petition on their website demanding the proposed Religious Freedom Bill be made null and void. The petition, addressed to Prime …

Malaysian authorities have released a video suggesting that sexual orientation can be changed with “extensive training and guidance”. The Malaysian Islamic Development Department, known as …

Openly gay Sydney MP Alex Greenwich’s bill to decriminalise abortion has finally been made law after it passed a vote in the Lower House of …