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...
Unequal Protection for LGBT+ Victims of Domestic Abuse
Image description: A group of people, men and women, whose photos are arranged in a grid. Many of them bear injuries to the face. The square at the centre of...
Marriage For All: Same-Sex Marriage in Japan
Image description: The exterior of the Supreme Court of Japan. Japanese law neither recognises marriage between same-sex couples nor has the system of civil partnership at the national level. As...
Welfare as a Human Right: An Intersectional Approach to Trans Rights in India
Image description: Protesters protesting the Transgender Bill in India in 2018. Judicial intervention has given the impetus for Indian queer politics to articulate its civil and political demands. However, there...
New Frontiers of LGBTQ+ Liberation
Image description: A person standing in the middle of a street waving a rainbow flag. The sky is bright blue and the sun is shining through the flag. New Frontiers...
One Step Forward: Securing Parental Rights for LGBTQ+ Couples in Hong Kong
Image description: Two persons, one of whom is a child, standing amongst a crowd and waving rainbow flags. While LGBTQ+ families in Hong Kong may have babies through means like...
Delhi High Court Hears Petitions on Legalisation of Same-Sex Marriage in India
Image description: Wrapped in a gay flag at the Pride Parade, New Delhi. In Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India (2018) the archaic law under Section 377 of the...
The Need for Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Private Sector for the LGBTQ Community in India
Image description: A person holding a poster saying ‘protect LGBTQ workers now’. In 2018, the Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgement in Navtej Singh Johar v. UOI, which...
ARTS Bill: A Setback to Procreational Rights of the Queer Community in India?
Image description: Several people gathered on either side of a Pride (rainbow) flag. First approved by the Union Cabinet in 2020, the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill was passed in...
Lee v UK: Exhausting Domestic Remedies
Today a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) handed down its decision in Lee v UK, declaring the application inadmissible. Mr Lee’s story is well-known. In 2014,...
Freedom! ’21: Latest Developments in Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan
In Taiwan, same-sex marriage has been recognized since 24 May 2019 pursuant to the Act for Implementation of Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 748. However, foreign nationals may only enter into...
Banning Conversion Therapy in India: The Do’s and Don’ts
Conversion therapy (‘CT’) is practiced to change the sexual orientation of an individual, in order to ensure that they fit into the heteronormative script of the society. Despite the abundance...
