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Back to homepageFacebook,Twitter remove Russia-linked fake accounts
UNITED STATES: Facebook and Twitter said yesterday, they had taken down a network of Russian-linked fake accounts operated out of Ghana and Nigeria which targeted US. Facebook told reporters that the network, which it removed from Facebook and Instagram for
Read MoreIndonesia condemns LGBT raids ordered by mayor after UK rape case
Indonesia’s human rights commission today condemned plans by a mayor to launch raids targeting the LGBT community in his city after a local man was convicted in Britain of sexually assaulting 48 men. Described by a prosecutor as “the most
Read MoreNo need to defend LGBTs, PAS tells Suhakam
PUCHONG: PAS dismissed Suhakam’s report on the discrimination suffered by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, saying it was irrelevant. In a statement, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man claims that the LGBT’s lifestyle does not correspond
Read MoreJob snubs to forced surgery: India’s ‘invisible’ intersex people
BANGALORE: Bullied at school, gang raped as a prostitute and asked about his genitals in job interviews, Daniel Mendonca – like many intersex people in India – has been mistreated all his life. Although the country’s top court officially recognised
Read MoreBullied by peers, India’s LGBT+ children drop out of schools
CHENNAI: The school bullies started by teasing six-year-old Shemba for walking in a feminine way, and graduated to stone-throwing when the transgender girl – initially raised as a boy – started wearing girls’ uniform, aged 10. So Shemba dropped out
Read MoreTaiwan celebrates same-sex marriages as first country in Asia to legalise them
Same-sex couples tie the knot in Taiwan as it becomes the first Asian country to legalise gay marriages. Anew page in history is turned. One week ago, Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalise same-sex weddings. Since then, they
Read MoreTaiwan Parliament endorses same-sex marriage
TAIPEI: Taiwan became the first nation in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, as thousands thronged outside the Parliament cheering and waving rainbow flags, despite deep divisions over the matter. Lawmakers from the majority Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) backed the bill,
Read MoreFive Indonesian men part of syndicate offering same-sex service arrested
GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Immigration Department uncovered a syndicate offering same-sex service involving foreigners with the arrest of five Indonesian men during a raid at a hotel here last night. Penang Immigration Department enforcement head Kholijah Mohamad said the raid
Read MoreLGBT: Bukit Gelugor MP calls for end to probe against rally organisers
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 — Criminal investigations should not be initiated against the International Women’s Day March organisers just because of participation from representatives of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, a Pakatan Harapan (PH) federal lawmaker said
Read MoreUproar in Malaysia – LGBT groups at Women’s Day march
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian minister has decried the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups at a march celebrating International Women’s Day on Saturday, calling it “a misuse of democratic space.” The statement comes amid concerns over growing
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