Winds of Change

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US: HRC Releases Annual State Equality Index Ratings

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If an LGBTQ couple drove from Maine to California today, their legal rights and civil rights protections could change more than 20 times at state borders and city lines.

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Taiwan: No technical issue to third gender option on Taiwan passports

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There should be no technical difficulties in adding a third gender option to Republic of China (Taiwan) passports as long as the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) approves a third gender option for household registration and national identification purposes, the Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA) said Thursday.

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Australia: Marriage equality is a reality – so what's the next LGBTI battle?

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The marriage issue preoccupied activists in 2017 but it’s unclear whether that campaigning power can be harnessed for issues such as trans and intersex rights

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Less Equal: LGBTI Human Rights Defenders in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan

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This report finds that discrimination, homophobia and Russia’s crusade against non-traditional sexual relationships have helped fuel a worrying rise in hostility towards LGBTI human rights groups in parts of the former Soviet Union. 

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GALE publishes first overview of LGBTI education in Europe

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Today GALE published the first full overview of how European States implement the right to education for LGBTI (DESPOGI) students.

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UK: This Is What Russian LGBT Activists And Human Rights Campaigners Told Boris Johnson

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BuzzFeed News joined the foreign secretary in Moscow as he met campaigners fighting for basic freedoms. “This is the worst human rights crisis we have seen in Russia’s contemporary history,” one said.