Some conservatives suggest legislative leaders are treading softly on these issues now for fear of provoking big corporations and pro sports leagues that support LGBT rights.
The Russian government has drafted legislation that would make it illegal to urge people not to seek treatment for AIDS or to deny the existence of HIV, the virus that causes the disease.
Last week saw a landmark court case for gay people in the Caribbean. Now Britain must work to strike out such colonial-era laws throughout its former empire
Hon Cecilia Ogwal: "Unless we have a strong law which will stop each and everyone from practising homosexuality, it will spread like a wild fire. WE must preserve our values. Let us not just talk;let us bring this law and pass it. "
The Portuguese parliament has voted to adopt a ground-breaking law which better protects and respects the right to self-determination and bodily integrity of trans and intersex people.
