Tag: LGBT rights

• Saturday, May 25th 2019 - 08:01 UTC

  Brazil's Supreme Court leans in favor of LGBTQ rights

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court Thursday hinted it would rule against discrimination based on sexuality or gender and that Congress had acted unconstitutionally by failing to include homophobia and transphobia within its anti-discrimination statutes, it was reported.

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• Monday, February 11th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Conflict leads nowhere, “we must look at real challenges: protecting fisheries in the South Atlantic”

  

  In a long interview published this weekend in Clarin, UK ambassador Mark Kent emphasized on the coincidences of UK and Argentina, admitted his appeal in Twitter, a form of soft power, which has made him one of the most popular foreign diplomats in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  UK praises Uruguay's human rights record, but also has recommendations

  

  United Kingdom welcomed Uruguay’s positive record in promoting freedom of expression and independent media, as well as its progressive legislation particularly in promoting gender equality and LGBT rights.

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro names evangelical pastor to head a new Women, Family ministry

  

  Brazil's right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro named a pro-life evangelical pastor to head a new ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights that will also take over the agency looking after the country's 850,000 indigenous people. Damares Alves, a lawyer, preacher and congressional aide, is a staunch opponent of legalizing abortion, which is allowed only in cases of rape, anencephaly or when the mother's life is in danger.

• Saturday, September 29th 2018 - 14:17 UTC

  March for Diversity illuminates Montevideo in favor of LGBT culture

  

  Since 2006, the March for Diversity illuminates every year the most important avenue in Montevideo with a 'comparsa' of thousands of people who dance, celebrate and shout slogans in favor of policies for the rights of the LGBT community. In this year's edition, held on Friday, many marched with yellow and red handkerchiefs, colors chosen by the movements of activists in favor of the so-called trans law, which is under discussion in the Uruguayan Parliament. Diplomatic figures such as the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada participated in this march with their own posters and slogans.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Oscar winning Fantastic Woman Chilean actress speaks of transgender inequalities

  

  Chilean actress Daniela Vega made history by becoming the first transgender presenter at the Oscars ceremony. But, at a news conference after meeting Chile's President Michelle Bachelet this week, she spoke of the inequalities transgender people face in her home country.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 00:56 UTC

  Gays and lesbians accuse Bolivia’s Morales of “state homophobia”

  

  Gay and lesbian organizations world wide are up in arms demanding Bolivian president Evo Morales rectify his statements on homosexuality which were described as outrageous and “state homophobia”.