World of Politics

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UK: Question Time panellist Paris Lees taking on anti-trans bigotry

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“You’ll notice that I’m a transgender person. I’m the only transgender person who has ever been on Question Time, because the conversation about us is conducted over our heads, and doesn’t actually include the people who this conversation affects directly."

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Croatia: Protest against European treaty they say threatens traditional family

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Thousands of Croat conservatives protested on Saturday against the proposed ratification of a European treaty that describes gender as a “social role,” fearing it could undermine traditional family values in the predominantly Catholic country.

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Indonesia: LGBT communities brace for criminalization

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By no stretch has all of Indonesia been openly accepting of LGBT people prior to the ongoing anti-LGBT campaign, but the level of coordinated fearmongering, hostility, and terror tactics being used against LGBT communities since 2016 is unprecedented

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Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court takes on Istanbul Convention case

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Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court decided on March 20 that the request lodged by 75 MPs from GERB, the senior partner in the country’s ruling coalition, for a ruling on whether provisions from the Istanbul Convention on domestic violence were in conflict with the Bulgarian constitution, was admissible.