Let the Courts Decide

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Japan: Japan’s Support for Gay Marriage Is Soaring. But Can It Become Law?

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To a packed room, he described the anxiety he had felt as a young man, struggling to express his sexuality in Japan’s restrictive society. If the law is changed to allow same-sex marriage, he said, perhaps “we’ll make a society where the next generation doesn’t have to feel that way.”

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Nigeria: 47 Nigerian men plead not guilty to homosexuality charge

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Forty-seven Nigerian men pleaded innocent on Wednesday to a charge of public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term. Homosexuality is outlawed in many socially conservative African societies where some religious groups brand it a corrupting Western import.

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St Vincent and the Grenadines: Judge allows churches to join SVG’s buggery case

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High Court Judge Justice Esco Henry, on Wednesday, ruled to allow 10 churches calling themselves the Christian Coalition to join the Government in responding to the constitutional challenge to the buggery and gross indecency laws in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Saint Vincent: Court prepares to rule on challenge to buggery laws

The High Court will rule on Wednesday, November 20 on whether to allow 10 churches to become a party in a challenge to the anti-buggery laws in St Vincent and the Grenadines even as lawyers for both sides expressed differing opinions on the decision by two gay nationals challenging the law.

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Saint Lucia: Bishop warns of “devilish and sinful” agenda!

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The outspoken bishop expressed concerns that the legal challenge spells trouble. A “devilish and sinful” agenda, he warns, is afoot.

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Saint Vincent: Christians march in protest of anti-buggery laws challenge

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Thousands of white-clad people, primarily representing the various Christian denominations here, descended on Kingstown yesterday for a march and rally organized to protest the challenge to this country’s anti-buggery laws.

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Myanmar’s criminal law and justice system perpetuates stigmatization, discrimination, and human rights violations

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Myanmar’s criminal laws are outdated and fail to respect and protect human rights, especially the rights of LGBTQ people and rights enshrined in binding international human rights treaties. This is the key finding of the new report ‘In the Shadows: Systemic Injustice Based on Sexual Orientation and Identity/Expression in Myanmar’.