Homosexuality Bill

Uganda announced Monday that President Yoweri Museveni had signed into law draconian new measures against homosexuality described as among the world's harshest, prompting condemnation from human rights and LGBTQ groups as well as Western powers.

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has given the green light to a bill seeking to decriminalise homosexuality, the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday, in a move hailed as a "historic development" by campaigners.

The bill will now go to President Yoweri Museveni who can choose to use his veto or sign it into law.

Hours after the Lok Sabha passed the Triple Talaq Bill to criminalise the controversial practice of instant divorce in Islam, BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday demanded that the Congress apologise for subjecting Muslim women to "decades of injustice".

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi today questioned the logic behind the government curbing the practice of Triple Talaq while supporting the "decriminalisation" of homosexuality. He termed it as an attack on the rights conferred upon Muslims by the constitution.

My late father, Chandran Tharoor, used to tell me more than five decades ago that India is not just the world's largest democracy, it is also the world's largest hypocrisy. The wisdom and accuracy of his perception was again on display when my second attempt to introduce a Private Member's Bill to amend Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was defe...

For the second time in three months, the Lok Sabha today voted against the introduction of a private member's bill to decriminalise homosexuality brought by Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor.

For the second time in three months, Lok Sabha today voted against the introduction of a private member's bill brought by Congress member Shashi Thraoor to decriminalise homosexuality.

Thousands of gay rights activists and LGBT families rallied in Rome Saturday in protest at the watering down of Italy's civil union's bill, which no longer envisages adoption rights for homosexual couples.

Disappointed after a bill to legalise homosexuality failed to pass through Parliament, members of sexual minorities and their supporters turned out at Bengaluru's Town Hall on Saturday afternoon.

Lawmakers in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan today voted overwhelmingly in favour of a law activists say discriminates against homosexuals, in the crucial second of three mandatory readings of the bill.

New legislation to protect gays went into effect from Thursday in Utah, after approval of a compromise bill backed by the state's homosexual community and religious advocates, including its powerful Mormon bloc.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Uganda on Tuesday to repeal a law imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni will sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life despite international pressure, a government spokesman said on Monday.

The Senate pushed a major anti-bias gay rights bill past a first, big hurdle on Monday.

Uganda announced Monday that President Yoweri Museveni had signed into law draconian new measures against homosexuality described as among the world's harshest, prompting condemnation from human rights and LGBTQ groups as well as Western powers.

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has given the green light to a bill seeking to decriminalise homosexuality, the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday, in a move hailed as a "historic development" by campaigners.

The bill will now go to President Yoweri Museveni who can choose to use his veto or sign it into law.

Hours after the Lok Sabha passed the Triple Talaq Bill to criminalise the controversial practice of instant divorce in Islam, BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday demanded that the Congress apologise for subjecting Muslim women to "decades of injustice".

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi today questioned the logic behind the government curbing the practice of Triple Talaq while supporting the "decriminalisation" of homosexuality. He termed it as an attack on the rights conferred upon Muslims by the constitution.

My late father, Chandran Tharoor, used to tell me more than five decades ago that India is not just the world's largest democracy, it is also the world's largest hypocrisy. The wisdom and accuracy of his perception was again on display when my second attempt to introduce a Private Member's Bill to amend Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was defe...

For the second time in three months, the Lok Sabha today voted against the introduction of a private member's bill to decriminalise homosexuality brought by Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor.

For the second time in three months, Lok Sabha today voted against the introduction of a private member's bill brought by Congress member Shashi Thraoor to decriminalise homosexuality.

Thousands of gay rights activists and LGBT families rallied in Rome Saturday in protest at the watering down of Italy's civil union's bill, which no longer envisages adoption rights for homosexual couples.

Disappointed after a bill to legalise homosexuality failed to pass through Parliament, members of sexual minorities and their supporters turned out at Bengaluru's Town Hall on Saturday afternoon.

Lawmakers in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan today voted overwhelmingly in favour of a law activists say discriminates against homosexuals, in the crucial second of three mandatory readings of the bill.

New legislation to protect gays went into effect from Thursday in Utah, after approval of a compromise bill backed by the state's homosexual community and religious advocates, including its powerful Mormon bloc.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Uganda on Tuesday to repeal a law imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni will sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life despite international pressure, a government spokesman said on Monday.

The Senate pushed a major anti-bias gay rights bill past a first, big hurdle on Monday.