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It's been a year since Sarah Everard was abducted, raped and murdered - and the Mayor of London this week called on men to lead a 'fundamental cultural change' to help end violence against women. Sadiq Khan said the problem is not only…

A Biden administration official said on Friday that the United States has "engaged directly" with LGBTQ Ukrainians and other groups that Russia could target if it took over their country. “We have engaged directly with these populations…

Consent is coming of age. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, emerging identity shifts and the questioning and undoing of traditional power dynamics are recontextualizing negotiations around sexuality, precipitating…

Protesters holding signs in Macedonian reading 'You are the rapist', 'The state that does not enforce the law is the state that rapes' and ' you are not to blame." Photo by Walker Gawande via Unbias the News. Used with permission.This…

The document could see students expelled because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or sexual activity, according to a Change.org Petition against the new contract, which has garnered more than 100,000 signatures.Citipointe…

A Christian school in Brisbane has asked parents to sign an enrollment contract that allows it to expel a child who comes out as gay, just a week before school starts.Citipointe Christian College in Carindale, southeast Brisbane, has sent…

LAKE COUNTY— In 2010, President Barack Obama designated January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. On January 11, 2022, continuing the practice of bringing attention to a global tragedy, the Lake County Board of…

Latest State Department emails obtained by the Washington Blade through its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal internal deliberations within the Trump administration over reporting on the poster ban Pride flags on the official pole…

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu assured Lagosians on Sunday that the year 2022 will be a season of consolidation, saying his administration will complete the Imota rice mill projects, 37 km long. red and 27.5 km of blue line,…

How can Britain best recover from the Covid pandemic? Columnist Bernard Ingham sets out his point of view.A prime minister on probation. A deeply divided government. A symbolic opposition. Scottish nationalists are still suicidal…

JK Rowling attends the Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them World Premiere 2016. (Getty / Ben Gabbe) JK Rowling's name has been almost completely deleted from the new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The…

Violence against women is a universal problem and has become one of the most visible and articulated social problems in Bangladesh. This is not a new problem for us. Its scale tends to be alarming, especially in rural areas, generally…

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Students who are increasingly indebted, including in higher education, may be particularly motivated to prostitute themselves. Credit: Freestocks / Unsplash As colleges and semesters progress, a small but growing proportion of…

A new national group taking the name of a Stonewall-era gay liberation organization is not the same as this historic organization and is raising eyebrows for its stances on transgender rights.The New Gay Liberation Front hosted an…

Josh Duggar's legal team has filed a motion to have photos of his hands removed and removed from evidence in his pending child pornography criminal case. According to reports, Duggar has a distinctive scar on his hand…

After other famous inmates in recent years, the former Small city Actress Allison Mack will serve her prison sentence in East Bay following her conviction in the chilling sex cult case NXIVM.As viewers of the HBO 2020 documentary series…

Allison Mack, the television actor convicted of coercing women into sex slaves in sectarian group NXIVM, visited the Federal Corrections Institute in Dublin early Monday. As an inmate no. 90838-053, the "Smallville" star becomes the last…

I digested the reporting on Andrew Cuomo, sexual harassment and reverberations in the LGBTQ community. Sexual harassment is despicable. It doesn't matter what form it takes. Charlotte Bennett, an accuser of Cuomo, told investigators…

August 25, 2021 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the death of one of the most controversial figures in American sexology, Alfred Kinsey. That day in 1956, Kinsey died after pneumonia sent him to hospital and decades of chronic…

During Pride Month in June, LGBT rights again became a flashpoint in Europe, where the rights of LGBT people became a central issue, deployed for political ends. This latent conflict reaches its climax between Hungary and…

With a schedule change, the show will continue as Bloomington hosts its first pride festival this…

KENTON COUNTY, Ky. (FOX19) - A northern Kentucky man pleaded guilty Thursday to more than 300 counts of child pornography in what prosecutors describe as one of the largest child pornography cases ever they met.Karem Christensen, 40, was a…

The question of police authority and the relevance of the application of force, in particular in the fight against crowds, has been quite acute for many years now. Recently, a number of cases in Europe have updated this question. For…

BUDAPEST / BRUSSELS - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday promised he would not give in to pressure from the European Union to repeal a new law banning schools from using material considered to promote homosexuality, as…

By Krisztina Than, Gabriela BaczynskaBUDAPEST / BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday promised he would not give in to EU pressure to repeal a new law banning schools from using material deemed to promote…

Europe has recently taken clear steps towards totalitarianism, displaying a desire to take control of people's lives, from communication to private property. In recent days, individual moves from different countries on the continent have!-->…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union Director-General Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday warned Hungary that it must repeal legislation banning schools from using material deemed to promote homosexuality or face the full force of European…

BRUSSELS, July 7 (Reuters) - Hungary on Wednesday rejected a demand by the European Commission and many EU lawmakers to repeal new legislation banning schools from using material believed to promote homosexuality.Last month, EU leaders…

A meeting of the General Affairs Council of EU leaders in Luxembourg last week erupted into heated debate, with some members having harsh words for Hungary over the passing of a discriminatory anti-LGBTQ law there.Hungarian President…

Arrival of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the European Council on June 24, 2021. On June 15, the Hungarian Parliament passed a law prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality among minors. At the meeting of EU…

On June 15, the Hungarian parliament passed a law banning any content or discussion that could promote homosexuality or gender change in children under the age of 18. The law applies to the public school system, media and advertising in…

People attend the "Equality Parade" rally in support of the LGBT community, in Warsaw, Poland on June 19, 2021. REUTERS / Kacper PempelEuropean Commission President calls Hungarian law "shameful"17 out of 27 EU members sign letter against…

TW: Homophobia, torture, abuse, violence, discrimination I mean, I'm going to start off by saying that this list could really be huge. There are lots of countries that criminalize LGBTQ + behavior, often punishing community members with…

On this day of 2019, labor, feminist and human rights allies celebrated the adoption by the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the Violence and Harassment Convention (N ° 190). This historic international standard called…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The ruling Conservative Party in Hungary has prepared new legislation that bans the dissemination of pornographic material and any content depicting or promoting sexual reassignment or homosexuality to anyone under…

Artist and activist Yulia Tsvetkova faces criminal charges for posting pornography Ann Khodyreva / Facebook Yulia Tsvetkova, a…

A Russian court will deliver its verdict tomorrow in the case against activist Andrei Borovikov, who faces three years in prison if convicted of "spreading pornography" for sharing a video by German rock band Rammstein. Andrei…

“My body is not pornography! reads the protester's sign. "Is this an article 242?" Asks the policeman. Article 242 of the Russian Criminal Code criminalizes the creation and exchange of pornographic material. Image…

Feminist artist and LGBTQ + activist Yulia Tsvetkova is on trial in Russia, charged with distributing pornography based on her work of a naked female body. The 27-year-old, who was arrested in November 2019 and remained under…

Yulia Tsvetkova ran a children's theater and was a strong advocate for feminism and LGBT rights.…