Lgbt Rights In South America

Many parts of Latin America have remained the standard for equality for LGBT rights. Argentina's Law in 2012 allowed the change of gender on birth certificates for transgender people. It also legalised same-sex marriage in 2010, which gave same-sex couples the same rights as opposite-sex couples, which included the right to adopt children. Uruguay and Mexico City also allow equal marriage and adoption, and a little while ago Colombia recognised its first legal same-sex civil union (not "marriage"). In Asia, LGBT groups are starting to make progress, slowly. Last year, Vietnam saw its very first gay pride rally and then this year's event will launch a campaign for equality in the workplace. A few weeks ago, it was reported that the country's

The Human Dignity Trust filed a suit at the European court of human rights against the Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus,which is the only place in Europe where homosexuality is still illegal, and it is likely for them to win. In a note sent to Gay right activists, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago expressed her wish to be able repeal the laws that have banned homosexuality. The prime minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, has voiced many similar wishes. In June, Javed Jaghai was the latest activist to launch legal actions to challenge the anti-sodomy laws. However, violence against gay people is increasing, and a 17-year-old was stabbed to death last week at a party in Trinidad for being gay. In Malawi, their president Joyce Banda announced in 2012 that laws criminalising homosexuality would be repealed , she has since then separated herself from that, although there has been a little bit of change and have been any prosecutions. Therefore, it's not just the globally north where things are moving forward. It’s in some parts of the world where you'd least expect them, things are getting better for

And of course now England and Wales have same sex marriage from the Same Sex Couples Act passed in 2013. In Iran, a place where homosexuality is punishable by death . their country's official who works on the human rights described homosexuality as "an illness that should be cured". Of course, gay rights are no better in a lot of other Middle Eastern countries. The ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) provides a good look at state-sponsored homophobia in a 2013 report. A few weeks ago, Eric Ohena Lembembe, was found at his home in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. He had been tortured. His neck and feet were broken, his body burned with an iron and murdered. As the executive director of Camp Aids, Lembembe was one of Cameroon's most outstanding and outspoken LGBT rights activists and he was openly gay. It was an huge act of bravery in a country in which homosexuality is punishable with prison and violence against LGBT people is common and is almost never