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New figures reveal mental health support is failing our kids - MORE than 1800 Scots kids have been denied support for mental health ... “With evidence from elsewhere in the UK that schools-based counselling ...

How Obama helped launch a Scottish education revolution - How Obama helped launch a Scottish education revolution .... “Our spirit here is excellent and we saw in 2011 the UK pass the US for the creating of ...

Schools urged to review trip plans in wake of terror - Schools are being urged to review their planned trips in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks. Heads from the Association of School and College ...

Slew of tie-ups bring relief, suggest UK -India ties unaffected by Brexit - Slew of tie-ups bring relief, suggest UK -India ties unaffected by Brexit ... under the UK India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI), allaying fears of ...

What each party manifesto means for student voters - With a UK student population in excess of two million, there are also a lot of them ... Higher education doesn't have its own section in the Conservative ...

Jeremy Corbyn: “ Poverty is not inevitable. We can prevent it” - The Big Issue believes that there must be a focus on ending poverty in Britain . And the only REAL way to break the poverty cycle is to work to prevent it ...

Homeless babies and starving parents: the poverty seen by doctors - Nearly one in three children in the UK – a total of four million – live in poverty . It's a statistic that perhaps many people acknowledge is shocking, but ...

Government plans to tackle child poverty - Holyrood chiefs have agreed to the general principles of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill, which will see Scotland become the only part of the UK with ...

Zagreb in the spotlight: ' Homophobia means Pride must be political here' - “It's an 'alternative fact' to say that homophobia isn't a big problem in Croatia,” says Zagreb-based journalist Ana Brakus, borrowing a phrase from ...

Top UK rabbi says gay acceptance is 'fantastic,' sparking controversy - The United Kingdom's top Sephardic rabbi became the center of an international controversy after he praised societal acceptance of homosexuality as ...

Madrid kicks off WorldPride festival with LGBT traffic lights - The city of Madrid on Tuesday unveiled close to 300 traffic lights promoting the rights of lesbian , gay , bisexual and ...

David Walliams defends his camp mannerisms which some in the LGBT community have taken -    But I remember when Sir Ian McKellen criticised Little Britain ; he said he wasn't sure if it was helpful to gay people. And Matt and I were devastated ...

DeVos grilled on discrimination against LGBT students - A Democratic senator gets into a feisty exchange with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over LGBT protections for students attending private ...

Kylie Minogue's new album 'will cover issues like LGBT+ rights' - However, the first single from the album is set to be a track Kylie has done with UK producer Sigala, who's had his own huge hits with Easy Love, ...

Gay Chinese battle inertia, conservatism to push rights - After decades of Communist prudery about sex of all kinds, during recent years of economic reform and growth, gay Chinese have sprung forward to ...

London Gay Men's Chorus mark 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act with Agit-Pop - The London Gay Men's Chorus (LGMC) will mark 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act 1967 with two performances of its new show, Agit-Pop, ...

Bodybuilders go topless to protest against LGBTI people - Four bodybuilders protested against LGBTI people in Indonesia by running down the street topless and then flexing their muscles for media. Taking to the streets of Solo (also known as Surakarta) a city in the Java province, the bodybuilders were carrying signs and also protesting the presence of gay people at gyms. This was following the detainment of 141 men who were at a ‘gay party’ at the Atlantis fitness centre last month. One of the four men protesting was former military police officer Partika Subagyo Lelono. ‘What has happened in Jakarta (yesterday) is very damaging to the nation, the young generation,’ Bagyo told the Tribun Solo. >

States should protect LGBTI persons from violence and discrimination; Philippines should ... - We welcome the first report of the Independent Expert on SOGI-related violence and discrimination. We recognize that some States opposed creation ...

Tim Farron, Gay Sex, Democracy And Populism - Farron is entitled to his views on gay sex - whatever they may be. ... return to a Britain in which the nature of marriage and sexuality was unquestioned.

Tennis and politics clash on Australian Open centre court - But what is being questioned are her comments against the country's LGBT community. They have triggered a debate on whether she still deserves to ...

DeVos hedges on banning discrimination against LGBT students - Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, says federal law is unsettled on LGBT discrimination and pressed DeVos to elaborate. DeVos said that issue ...

Author of 'study' claiming unhealthy lifestyle causes homosexuality says she's been misunderstood - Study author tells IBTimes UK her work has been 'misinterpreted' to say ... Several news websites writing on issues within the LGBT ( lesbian , gay , ...

Canterbury gay pride parade security stepped up after London and Manchester terror attacks - Organisers of a gay pride festival in the city have held talks with ... Race, Courtney Act and Willam, as well as some of the UK's favourite tribute acts, ...

General election: Which party has the most LGBT candidates? - With the general election only days away, LGBT+ Britons will be making up their minds on which political party they feel best represents their views.