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Rainbow Map
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These are the main findings for the edition of the rainbow map
The Rainbow Map ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from %.
The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls accompanying anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our press release.
“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in reality designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”
- Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director, ILGA-Europe
Malta has sat on top of the ranking for the last 10 years.
With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
Homosexuality is a crime in 64 countries worldwide
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Ghana has develop the latest African state to propose legislation outlawing homosexuality.
The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, which seeks to criminalise LGBTQ+ activities and activism, is returning to parliament after former president Nana Akufo-Addo failed to signal it into law before leaving office at the beginning of this year.
The bill is being sponsored by 10 lawmakers from both major parties, "an unusual bipartisan effort in Ghana's polarised political landscape", said The Africa Inform, and comes "despite international outcry and warnings from Ghana's key development partners".
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The Ultimate Guide to Gay Iceland | LGBT+ History, Rights, and Culture
Is Iceland LGBTQ+ friendly? What's the Iceland lgbtq+ scene like? How do Icelanders manage the LGBTQ community? Is Iceland a good travel destination for queer people? Read on for all you deserve to know about queer history, Reykjavik Pride, and queer Iceland in general.
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Mauritius supreme court upholds queer rights, sets aside ‘discriminatory’ penal code provision
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Given controversial anti-gay laws in some parts of Africa, and the rationale for those laws, it’s perhaps important to start off by spelling out what this significant new opinion, delivered last week by the supreme court of Mauritius, does not do.
It does not permit sex with children; it does not permit bestiality; it does not permit homosexual rape, or sex that isn’t consensual; it does not permit sex in public. All these deeds are still unlawful.
In brief, its only change is to decriminalise gay sex, between consenting adults, in private. More specifically, the judgment declares that section (1) of the criminal code of Mauritius is unconstitutional because it discriminates against gay men.
Homophobia
The assessment was written in response to an action brought by Abdool Ah Pursue, a gay Mauritian dude, together with a local non-government association that campaigns against all forms of homophobia, and that was admitted as an interested party.
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