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Russia's top court has banned the "international LGBT movement" as an "extremist organisation" at the behest of the Russian government in a move widely condemned by human rights and LGBT+ organisations. Judge Oleg Nefedov approved the Russian justice ministry's request after a four-hour hearing yest

The Britain-wide Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing a special review of its 'A status' as a national human rights institution after LGBT+ groups raised concerns about its political independence. The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) agreed to carry out

Couples in Northern Ireland have just over a month left to convert a civil partnership to a marriage or vice versa. The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 created a three-year window in which same-sex couples can convert their civil partnerships into marriages

Japan's highest court has struck down a law requiring transgender people to be surgically sterilised before their gender identity can be legally recognised. The Supreme Court of Japan today unanimously ruled that the provision in a law dating back to 2003 is incompatible with Article 13 of the Japan

A new standard for LGBTI rights in Europe, drafted under the oversight of Irish human rights lawyer Michael Farrell, has been adopted by the Council of Europe's body for combating racism and intolerance. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) will rely on the non-binding recom

The Irish government considered relying on the HIV/AIDS epidemic to defend the criminalisation of homosexuality in a landmark European court case in the 1980s, newly-released papers reveal. Senator David Norris took the State to the European Court of Human Rights, which eventually ruled that the cri

The OUTLaw Network, which brings together LGBT+ people and allies in the Irish legal sector, has announced it raised over €1,800 for its charity partners with its 'Pride for Pressies' raffle. Nine lawyers won prizes in the raffle, which was held in June to raise funds for LINC, Outcomers,

England and Wales' Bar Standards Board (BSB) has removed advice to barristers against misgendering trans men and women on social media. The BSB withdrew a case study from its guidance to the 17,000 practising barristers in England and Wales. The study detailed a hypothetical online exchange where a

Equality for Children and the Lesbian Lawyers Network yesterday demonstrated outside the Italian Embassy in Dublin to protest the removal of rights from lesbian mothers in Italy.

Lawyers have been urged to join a Dublin demonstration against an Italian crackdown on lesbian mothers' right to be named on their children's birth certificates. Italy's far-right government has ordered local authorities to cease recording the names of "non-biological" parents on birth certificates

Hundreds of convictions for consensual sexual activity between men will be eligible for a disregard under the proposed new statutory scheme — including where the parties involved are now deceased. The final report of the working group set up by ministers to make recommendations on the scheme n

Legislation banning LGBT+ conversion practices will be brought forward this year, the government has announced. So-called 'conversion therapy' purports to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or expression when it does not conform to the perceived dominant norm.

Historic convictions for consensual sexual activity between men prior to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 will be eligible for a disregard under a new statutory scheme, the government has confirmed. Ministers have received the final report of the working group established to examine th

Russia is to prohibit all forms of gender transition, with allies of President Putin arguing the move is necessary to safeguard the nation against "western anti-family ideology". A bill approved in its initial reading by lawmakers in the Duma will forbid “medical interventions aimed at changin

A two-day workshop on anti-LGTBQ hate crime is to take place at University College Dublin later this month as legislators consider plans for new hate crime legislation. The event, part of a project called 'Enabling Civil Society and Academia Collaboration in the Area of Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crime', will