The Respect for Marriage Act as Both a Gay Rights Victory and Defeat
Image Description: A rainbow coloured heart and at the middle of this heart are two intertwined rings. For the first two years of the Biden presidency, Democrats controlled both Congress...
The 2022 World Cup: from Soccer to Human Rights Violations & Geopolitics
Image description: View from above of crowd of spectators at 2022 World Cup in Qatar It is not news that Qatar, a country with serious human rights violations, was chosen...
The Homophobic Cayman Brief: An Ignominious Near-Rebuke to Ms Dinah Rose KC – Part II
Image description: A group of people walking under a rainbow flag. This is Part II of a two-part post. You can access Part I here. ……… But the wheels of...
The Homophobic Cayman Brief: An Ignominious Near-Rebuke to Ms Dinah Rose KC – Part I
Image description: A group of people walking under a rainbow flag. Previously on this site (see here and here), we explained why Ms Dinah Rose KC was duty-bound when she...
Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation in Ukraine
Image description: The Mariinskyi Palace, the official residence of the President of Ukraine. Despite the war and the challenging economic situation in Ukraine, the gender rights issues are still actual,...
Advancing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality Through CEDAW
Women’s enjoyment of their human rights is inextricably informed and shaped in important ways by their sexual orientation and gender identity. Yet the equality of lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans...
Discrimination in Indian Blood Donation Policy
Image description: People in India march at a gay pride rally with rainbow balloons and flags. India famously decriminalised homosexuality (s 377 of the Indian Penal Code) in the historic...
LGBTQ Liberty After the Fall of Roe v Wade
Image Description: Protests in California for marriage equality. Many people are carrying boards saying “we all deserve the freedom to marry”. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution...
No Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage in the Cayman Islands
Image description: People at a pride parade. There is a joyous expression on their faces as they walk under a big rainbow flag. In March 2022, the Judicial Committee of...
New Zealand bans conversion therapy and incorporates rights-based mechanism
Image description: rainbow queer pride flag Conversion therapy Conversion therapy involves psychological, spiritual, and physical practices to ‘convert’ a person’s gender identity or expression and/or sexual orientation preferably to that...
Peru: School Curricula as New Sites of LGBTQ+ Liberation
Image description: School children in Peru, in a classroom, seated at desks. They have their eyes shut. In 2017, the Peruvian Ministry of Education introduced the National Curriculum of Basic...
LGBTQ+ Rights as Administrative Law? Tang Seng Kee v. Attorney-General
Image description: Protesters at Singapore holding boards reading “LGBT Rights are Human Rights”, “Stop Invisibilising Us”, and “Decriminalise LGBT People”. On 28 February 2022, the Singapore Court of Appeal handed...
