GENEVA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Homosexuals and transgender people in all regions face discrimination and violence, including killings, rape and torture because of their orientation, and risk the death penalty in at least five countries, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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December 15th, 2011
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December 15th, 2011
Indonesian Sharia police have detained a group of young punk rockers for “moral rehabilitation”, forcibly shaving off their mohawks and bathing them in muddy pools to clean them in preparation for prayer.
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December 15th, 2011
One grim finding for Anglicans in the new British Social Attitudes survey is how few find religion after not being born into it. So says the ‘concerned’ Nick Spencer in The Guardian.
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December 14th, 2011
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas is taking issue with a nativity scene displayed in a Paragould primary school. In a follow up to a story we brought you earlier in the week, the ACLU's director Rita Sklar says although she wants to avoid a lawsuit, the school must obey the constitution.
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December 14th, 2011
Driving through the tiny rural town of Athens, Texas, and you’d be hard pressed to find something that might catch national attention -- or so it was until about a week ago.
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December 14th, 2011
NEW DELHI, India, December 14, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman who says she was pressured, even to the point of torture, by her husband and in-laws to abort her twin daughters, has taken her grievance to India’s legal system, filing a complaint against her relatives and giving a face to the victims of India’s epidemic of sex-selective abortions in the process.
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December 14th, 2011
Pink is for girls and blue is for boys - unless you are shopping at Hamleys that is.
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December 14th, 2011
Unmarried couples who live together for five years will automatically take their partner’s entire estate if they die without a will, under proposals from the Government’s law advisers.
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December 14th, 2011
A new poll has found that two thirds of Britons think parents or guardians should be the main people responsible for teaching children about sex.
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December 14th, 2011
When I first learned of the internet campaign against Hamleys "gender apartheid", ie allocating separate areas to boys' and girls' toys, I thought it was a joke. Here's an extract from the campaigning blog, written by someone called Laura Nelson under the pseudonym "Delilah":