World of Politics

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Australia: Research shows religious debates taking heavy toll

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New research shows that LGBTIQ Australians feel the current social situation, with the ongoing religious freedom debates, is worse now than during the 2017 same-sex marriage debate.

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Jamaica: Discriminatory Anti-Sodomy Law Fuels HIV in Jamaica

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In testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), AIDS-Free World’s Sarah Bosha delivered a forceful denunciation of the anti-sodomy provisions in Jamaica’s Offenses Against the Persons Act, arguing that the Colonial-era law is instrumental in the spread of the HIV epidemic in the Caribbean region and violates the American Convention on Human Rights, which Jamaica ratified in 1978.

Australia: Bid to decriminalise sex work in South Australia defeated in Parliament

The bill was the 13th attempt to decriminalise sex work in South Australia. It was a private member's bill which had support from MPs from different sides of Parliament. SA's Premier was in favour of the change, while the Opposition Leader was against