Indonesia's ultra-conservative Aceh province will only no longer hold canings in public places, but rather only inside prisons, nor allow images of the punishment to be recorded
Ground realities also need to change, such as the staff at PAN card application centres need to receive clear directives on being sensitive towards transgender persons
On April 3, 2018, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill, and it was signed into law on April 9.
The Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) says it does not want the sexual orientation, activity or behaviours of its clients to be collected under the Data Protection Act 2017.
In response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on "Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority," the AMA sent a letter to Alex Azar, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to express opposition to the measure
On March 13, 2018, Argentina’s government submitted to the National Congress a bill to amend the Labor Contract Law in order to establish gender parity standards in the workplace.
On March 21, 2018, the Swiss Federal Council (the Swiss government) adopted a legislative proposal to abolish the “marriage tax penalty” (marriage penalty).
