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Israeli parliament bans discrimination against LGBT youth in schools
JERUSALEM, Israel — The Israeli parliament on Tuesday approved passed a law prohibiting the discrimination in schools against students on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Romanian parliamentary committee rejects same-sex civil partnerships bill
BUCHAREST, Romania — A bill which would have legalized same-sex civil partnerships was soundly rejected earlier this month by a parliamentary committee in Romania.
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Obama freezes U.S. assets of 7 Russian officials, including author of anti-gay law
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday froze the U.S. assets of seven Russian officials for their support of Crimea’s vote to secede from Ukraine, including those of Yelena Mizulina, the Russian Duma (Parliament) Deputy who authored the controversial anti-gay propaganda law last year.
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U.S. suspends some aid to Uganda health ministry over anti-gay law
KAMPALA, Uganda — The U.S. has suspended some aid to Uganda’s ministry of health, officials said on Thursday, the first such response by the U.S. since the passage of Uganda’s harsh anti-homosexuality law passed last December and signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni February 24.
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UN human rights official: Nigeria’s anti-gay law may harm public health
ABUJA, Nigeria — The U.N. human rights chief says Nigeria’s new anti-gay law may have “negative consequences” for public health.
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Lithuania postpones vote on anti-gay ‘public family defilement’ bill
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuanian lawmakers on Thursday postponed a final vote on a bill establishing fines for “public family defilement,” a measure similar to Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law.
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Gay Ethiopian faces persecution, prison if deported from the U.S.
BOSTON, Mass. — Federal immigration officials in Boston are seeking to deport a 19-year-old gay Ethiopian man, where he is likely to be persecuted and imprisoned.
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Russian law enforcement drops hate crime investigation on anti-LGBT attack
ST, PETERSBURG, Russia — The investigation into a November 2013 attack at a meeting of LGBT rights activists that left a man with the loss of vision in one eye, has been suspended, and will not be investigated as a hate crime.
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Uganda human rights activists challenge anti-gay law in court
KAMPALA, Uganda — Human rights activists on Tuesday petitioned Uganda’s Constitutional Court to challenge the validity of an anti-gay measure that allows severe penalties against homosexuality. The activists – under a group called Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law – hope the court will agree the new law violates Uganda’s constitution by […]
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Telecom giant pulls ads from Uganda paper over publishing names of ‘suspected’ gays
KAMPALA, Uganda — An LGBT advocacy group says the global telecom company Orange has withdrawn advertising from a Ugandan tabloid newspaper that printed the names of 200 suspected homosexuals after a severe anti-gay law was enacted last month.