India: Transgender bill seeks to "police, criminalize" a highly vulnerable community: PUDR

India’s well-known civil rights organization, People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), characterizing the transgender bill – currently pending before Parliament – “draconian”, has said that it “violates” transpersons’ freedom of association in intimate and personal relations by refusing to “recognize ‘families of choice’ among hijras as self-determined arrangements of care.” 

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India: Transgenders hold rally opposing two bills

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Transgender people of Telangana organised a massive rally in the city against Trafficking of persons (Prevention, protection and rehabilitation) bill and Transgender persons bill, 2018 on Saturday. The rally, which started at 12 noon from Goshala, Lower Tank Bund, went up to Dharna Chowk in Indira Park.

Lithuanian authorities don't object to gay marriage serving as basis for residence permit

A lawmaker and the Migration Department's director say they agree that same-sex marriages registered abroad can serve as a basis for foreign spouses to reside lawfully in Lithuania, but underline that this would not grant them any other rights.  

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France: GPA à l’étranger le gouvernement se range derrière la Cour de Cassation

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Questioned by a member of parliament LR on the possibility of including in the law the recognition of the parentage of children born abroad by GPA, the Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet defended the jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation.