Bangkok University officially endorses uniform gender choice

• Released Date: 08-Jun-2015

Bangkok University has officially announced an alternative dress code enabling tomboys and ladyboys to wear whichever uniform they prefer.

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Protecting the Rights of the LGBTI Community

• Released Date: 07-Jun-2015

I would like to begin my column this week byfirst expressing gratitude to everyone for your support and continued comments, especiallyin response to my most recent columns.

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UN Issues Official Report on Discrimination and Violence on the basis of SOGIE

• Released Date: 02-Jun-2015

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recently issued a report to the UN Human Rights Council covering the issues of discrimination and violence based a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGIE).

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SC asked: Allow same-sex marriage in PH

• Released Date: 25-May-2015

The 31-page petition highlights the need for a more LGBT-inclusive society and is the first known and reported legal action of its kind before the Philippine High Court.

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Gay Pride Week Calls for Tolerance

• Released Date: 19-May-2015

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – As Pride Week moves through this city this week, it is clear that the Kingdom has moved from the days when assaults on gay people were largely tolerated.

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Discrimination a fact of LGBTI life: group

• Released Date: 18-May-2015

When Srorn Srun, founder of the human rights organisation CamASEAN, checked his Facebook account on Saturday, he found an upsetting, but not uncommon message. A transgender man in Kampong Thom province had written saying that he had just told his par

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LGBT domestic violence charity collapsed after ’chaotic’ management

• Released Date: 28-Apr-2015

A domestic violence charity that received £1.4m of public money collapsed after chaotic management, according to a public spending watchdog. Broken Rainbow, which was the only UK-wide charity supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender domestic

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LGBT-friendly Thailand? A Brief on School Bullying on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

• Released Date: 28-Apr-2015

Thailand is often perceived by both foreigners and some of its own population as very accepting of sexual and gender diversity; however some research suggests that Thai society is tolerant but unaccepting toward LGBT individuals.

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Rainbow parade celebrates LGBT equality push

• Released Date: 26-Apr-2015

Some 3,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people paraded through Tokyo’s Shibuya district Sunday afternoon to demonstrate their hope that Japanese society will continue to forge ahead with recent moves to embrace equality and diversity.

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Thousands join gay pride parade in Japanese capital amid calls for same-sex marriage

• Released Date: 26-Apr-2015

Some 3,000 people have marched in a gay pride parade in Tokyo as calls grow for Japan to legalise same-sex marriage after a lesbian couple held a symbolic wedding ceremony.

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Gay marriage kills - and will directly lead to 900,000 more abortions, says US lawyer in post on Heritage Foundation

• Released Date: 22-Apr-2015

A US lawyer has claimed that legalising gay marriage will cause an increase in abortions.

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White House Installs First Gender-Neutral Toilet

• Released Date: 10-Apr-2015

The symbolic initiative is the latest in a series of actions by President Barack Obama to support the LGBT community.

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