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Children deserve to feel safe at school - Over three quarters of LGBTI High School students report verbal bullying and a fifth report physical bully because of who they are, 80 per cent of which ...

Governor hopeful says you can be LGBTI just don't put it on social media - Earlier in the year he told Tempo that he does not object to people supporting LGBTI rights, but they should not do it publicly or on social media.

Witch-hunts and surveillance: The hidden lives of LGBTI people in the military - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) service personnel have largely been written out Australia's military history. But researchers ...

Could tactical voting stop Brexit ? - That's the hope of Open Britain, who have unveiled a list of 20 seats held by supporters of a hard Brexit (19 Conservatives and one Kate Hoey) in ...

UK's Labour Party pledges new Brexit strategy if it wins election - Britain's opposition Labour Party said Tuesday that it will tear up the government's negotiating plan for Brexit and guarantee all European ...

Britons 'oppose' Brexit guarantee for EU citizens in UK - A majority of Britons oppose a unilateral guarantee for EU citizens living in the UK to be able to remain in the country after Brexit , a Sky Data poll ...

Brexit economy: living standards are falling as the snap election looms - The pound's sharp fall since the Brexit vote and a mood of uncertainty among employers has hit household budgets, creating a tough economic ...

Students told to mind how they go - A shocking new Ulster University study has revealed 78% of young people in higher education have had a mental health issue including suicidal ...

Britain is opening up about its mental health - The data shows that Britain is 'opening up' about its mental health , with almost half (46%) talking about theirs or someone else's within the past three ...

If we want to improve mental health , first we need to tackle poverty - Across the UK , both women and men in the poorest fifth of the population are twice as likely to be at risk of mental health problems as those on ...

Exercise 'boosts mental health in over-50s' - Now, researchers have analysed the effect that physical activity can have on mental fitness for the over-50s. The study in the British Journal of Sports ...

School holidays leave 3 million children at risk of hunger, report says - Up to 3 million children risk going hungry during the school holidays, leaving ... term time, and 2 million more with working parents who are still in poverty . ... on sugary drinks to help each UK council set up support schemes with local ...

Nearly two million UK pensioners below poverty line - NEARLY two million UK pensioners are living below the poverty line and one in four struggle financially, new research claimed on Tuesday. Financial ...

Scottish Tories under pressure as spike in child poverty and food banks linked to austerity - policies, after a spike in foodbank use and child poverty prompts renewed fears over the UK Governments direction after the June General Election.

People are furious after Tory politician's "abhorrent" comment on child hunger - Recent child poverty figures show that more than three million children are living in poverty in the UK . Thousands start school hungry every day.

Russian refugees read powerful testimonials of gay men who escaped Chechnya - The testimonials of gay and bisexual men recently targeted, detained, and tortured in Chechnya are nothing short of harrowing. When read by queer ...

UK Teachers' Union Calls for LGBT Education for Children as Young as Two - Teachers (NUT), the largest teachers' union in the U.K. , said children as young as two years old should be given "age-appropriate" lessons on LGBT  ...

Stonewall Inn's national monument status to be 'reviewed' by Trump - New York's Stonewall Inn has a unique status in LGBT history, as the birthplace of the 1969 riots that sparked the early equal rights movement.

YouTube no longer blocks LGBT content - Following criticism, YouTube has issued a fix which means that content from LGBT content creators is no longer restricted. In March YouTube has ...

Chinese won't call each other 'comrade' anymore as it's too gay - A literal translation of the term into English would be “same intent”. ... It is for this reason that China's LGBT community came to adopt the term, ...

Hillary Clinton slams Trump for silence on Chechnya's gay 'purge' - And while the British government have called for an end to the “utterly barbaric” treatment of gay men in the conservative state, the US President's ...

Gay men persecuted in 'at least six prisons' in Chechnya, Russian paper reports - The extent of persecution of gay men in Chechnya is even wider than previously thought, and stretches across the southern Russian republic, it has ...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov 'wants to eliminate gay community by end of May', reports suggest - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov plans to “eliminate” the country's gay community by the start of Ramadan, a British foreign minister has claimed.

From Marine Le Pen to Theresa May, why do white gay men continue to support right-wing ... - On 15 December 2014, Sébastian Chenu – a French gay rights activist .... But as both France and the United Kingdom head into volatile general ...

What can the UK government do to help resolve the persecution of the LGBT community in ... - Chechnya's president has vowed to 'eliminate' all gay men by the end of May. Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, threatened to rid the ...

The LGBT community can trust the Lib Dems says MP Sir Simon Hughes - The UK's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) community can and should trust the Liberal Democrats, according to Sir Simon Hughes.

Anglicans could consecrate anti- gay UK bishop without permission from Archbishop of Canterbury - Hardline Anglican church leaders from Africa and Asia are considering consecrating an anti- LGBT bishop as a 'missionary' to the UK , without ...

LGBTI problems' can be cured with Islamic psychotherapy say Malaysian leaders - Islamic psychospiritual therapy must prove itself capable to help in rehabilitating emotional disturbance, anxiety and depression,' said Datuk Prof Dr ...

Chinese video games are becoming more gay - The makers of Chinese video games are looking to take advantage of the 'pink economy' by creating more LGBTI content. The pink economy is ...

Scottish political candidate doesn't want any LGBTI community -  In a bizarre comment in the The Clydebank Post, Allen said being LGBTI is 'none of anyone's business.' As a member of the right wing UK ...

Macron and Le Pen Are the Finalists, But How Do They Differ on LGBTs? - On LGBT issues, his program is silent, although a few days before the first round, Macron published an “open letter to the LGBTI community” on his ...