This month the European parliament said it welcomed any attempts to ban the therapy, and urged all member states to “adopt similar measures that respect and uphold the right to gender identity and gender expression”.
A speech by independent rightwing MP Željko Glasnović on the subject of the Istanbul Convention ratification led to heated exchanges in Parliament on Monday, with a Social Democrat MP earning two reprimands from the chairman.
Politicians in Lebanon have called for the government to decriminalise same-sex intercourse. Right-wing Christian Democrat party, the Kataeb party, announced plans to scrap the law on television over the weekend.
Lawyers and allied attorneys from influential anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have been working to pass and defend legislation in at least five states that allows child welfare agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ people
The Anti-discrimination Bill (ADB) that will protect the human rights of LGBTQI Filipinos may not see the light of day, considering the current pace of its (non)development in the Senate, where it continues to languish.
