Born out of the contentious debate over same-sex marriage, the religious discrimination bill was always going to attract its fair share of attention. The Morrison government has now released two drafts of the bill and, based on the response from a broad array of groups, appears no closer to finding the right balance.
Australia: Submissions to the ‘Religious Freedom’ bill released
Finland: Same-sex marriage turns three: "You can be religious and LGBT"
Australia: Physicians college calls for increased access to transgender treatment
One-third of patients taking PrEP in Kenya, Uganda demonstrate poor adherence
One-third of patients at an elevated risk for HIV who initiated pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, in Kenya and Uganda had drug concentrations in hair samples that were consistent with poor adherence, suggesting a need for new approaches and long-acting formulations of this agent, according to a study published in Lancet HIV.
Barbados: Regional approach to decriminalising homosexuality
Japan: Tokyo court rules same-sex common-law couple has marriage legal protections
In an apparent first high court ruling of its kind, a same-sex common-law couple in Japan has been recognized as having the same legal protections as a married couple, after the Tokyo High Court ruled in favor of a woman who sued her former same-sex partner for damages over infidelity at an appeal decision on March 4.