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Content Type(s): Press Release
Topic(s): Legal Discrimination, Human Rights, Law & Policy
Region(s): Asia
Content Type(s): Event
Topic(s): Law & Policy, Human Rights
Region(s): Global, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Outright International is excited to be a presenting partner at the Human Right Watch Film Festival to promote Category: Woman . Join us for this event to support the film and…, Friday, February 3, 2023, 9:00 am EST — Friday, February 10, 2023, 2:59 am EST
… Festival to promote Category: Woman . Join us for this event to support the film and help raise awareness around issues of racism, sexism, and denial of the most fundamental right—to who …
Content Type(s): Publication
Region(s): Asia, China, Timor-Leste, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan
… In countries where there are laws addressing domestic violence, redress and services do not adequately encompass LGBTQ survivors. As a result, they are often unable to seek justice …
Content Type(s): Press Release
Topic(s): Law & Policy
… 21, 2022 - During a speech at the annual National Day Rally, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that Section 377A of Singapore’s penal code will be repealed. The law … amendment protecting Singapore’s definition of marriage between a man and a woman. Mr. Lee further asserted that the government will continue to enact national policies ensuring that …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Peace, Security, & Humanitarianism, Law & Policy
Region(s): Asia
… law passed back in 2014 come into force in Brunei, with particularly worrying consequences for women and LGBTIQ people. Brunei became the first country in South-East Asia to introduce a nation-wide Sharia penal code in 2014. In the three phase implementation process, jail terms and punishments such as whipping for offences including indecency and failure to attend Friday prayers, as well as severing of …
Content Type(s): Publication
Topic(s): Law & Policy, Legal Discrimination
… favor and, facing the long and rough road ahead, remain hopeful. Following the release of this report, Outright hosted two webinars in late January 2021, led by Grace Poore, Outright's Regional Program Coordinator for Asia. Speakers shared examples of advocacy strategies in China that aim … Webinar 1 | Webinar 2 Download speaker presentations: DARIUS LONGARINO: Research Scholar, Yale Law School | Slide deck DI WANG: Feminist Researcher and Advocate from China | Slide deck …