Day: December 10, 2015

Same-sex couples will now be able adopt children in the Australian state of Victoria. Victoria will now allow same sex couples the right to adopt children, after the final passage of the state government’s bill, which delivers on an election promise made by Premier Daniel Andrews in 2014. Despite passage of the new law, some […]

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed that GLBT refugees fleeing Syria will be accepted and settled in the UK. The UK Home Office said it would look at ‘vulnerable criteria’ when looking at refugee cases and will take into account sexual orientation and gender identity. Other vulnerability criteria will include ‘violence and/or torture; refugees […]

 A Jamaican lawyer has filed a claim in the Supreme Court of Judicature, challenging the constitutionality of his country’s laws criminalising consensual sex between men. Maurice Tomlinson, who launched the legal challenge is being supported by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. A senior policy analyst at the Legal Network, Tomlinson highlights the deadly consequences of such […]

Justice Minister Amy Adams has ruled out the possibility of a ‘broad brush’ wiping of those convicted of being gay prior to homosexual law reform in 1986. Although those who were convicted of engaging in gay sex prior to 1986 do not need to declare their convictions because of the Clean Slate Act, activists say […]