Articles about Freedom

2 July 2012
Stonewall launches advice leaflets for gay tourists in Britain 40 Gay rights charity Stonewall has launched a series of multilingual leaflets designed to promote gay freedoms in Britain to foreign visitors.
27 June 2012
Egyptian diplomat suggests gays are ‘not real people’ 46 Egypt’s chief diplomatic representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva declared last week at a meeting about the universal right to association that gays do not warrant protections and are considered not to be “real people” in the Middle East.
1 May 2012
Law to wipe gay sex convictions given royal assent 60 The Protection of Freedoms Act, which will enable men to wipe the records of thousands of convictions for consensual gay sex under now-repealed laws, has received Royal Assent today.
20 December 2011
Comment: Should the law protect us from insults? 271 PinkNews.co.uk reader Stuart Ross discusses his experience of receiving offensive comments online amid the ongoing debate over whether to remove the use of "insulting words" from the offences in the Public Order Act.
15 December 2011
House of Lords rejects peer’s challenge to religious civil partnership rules 118 The motion to reintroduce the ban on civil partnerships in religious premises has been withdrawn by Baroness O’Cathain after it was debated today in the House of Lords.
13 December 2011
250,000 sign petition against St Petersburg “gay propaganda” law 7 Nearly a quarter of a million people have signed a petition calling on world leaders to hold Russia to account for a draft law in St Petersburg which threatens to silence its gay community.
30 November 2011
Russia reacts to overseas “interference” on St Petersburg “gay propaganda” law 29 A senior official in the Russian government has said he is "perplexed" by the US statement condemning a proposed law which could severely hinder freedom of expression for LGBT people in St Petersburg.
3 November 2011
Religious civil partnerships won’t solve “blanket ban inequality” 91 Announcement is welcomed by some, but warnings follow that not allowing religious gay marriages is still an "infringement of religious freedom".
24 October 2011
Zimbabwe prime minister says gay rights are ‘human rights’ 107 Zimbabwe's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has done a U-turn on gay rights and says he now wants them protected under the new constitution.
29 September 2011
Religious groups say gay marriage ban blocks faith freedom 65 Scottish religious leaders have warned that banning faiths from holding gay weddings will compromise religious freedom.
14 September 2011
PayPal won’t announce action against ‘gay hatred’ groups 47 PayPal has responded to calls for it to cancel the accounts of faith groups accused of promoting hate against gay people.
30 January 2011
Ugandan lesbian’s asylum appeal rejected because she didn’t read gay magazines 75 A lesbian asylum seeker who was granted a last-minute reprieve from deportation to Uganda was denied the right to remain in the UK because she didn't own magazines or other literature relating to her sexuality, it has been revealed.
13 January 2011
Public bodies asked to find out about gay and trans staff 17 Large public employers are being encouraged to find out how represented lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people are in their organisations.
12 January 2011
Peter Tatchell: Don’t criminalise homophobic Christians 181 Where do we draw the line between religious freedom and free speech on the one hand, and public order and the protection of minorities on the other hand? Should people of faith have the right to express views that others find offensive and bigoted?
7 January 2011
Ofcom won’t intervene over BBC interview with gay execution supporter 75 Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom will not intervene over complaints at a BBC News interview with an anti-gay extremist who has supported the execution of HIV-positive gay men.
18 February 2010
Comment: The PCC should not be dismantled 37 The Press Complaints Commission made the correct decision about Jan Moir's article on Stephen Gately.
1 February 2010
Pope Benedict XVI criticises gay rights in Equality Bill 76 Pope Benedict XVI criticised the Equality Bill on Monday for violating "natural law".
15 December 2009
Updated: Christian registrar Lillian Ladele loses appeal 254 An Islington registrar who refused to carry out civil partnerships for gay couples has lost her appeal.

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