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Are Human Rights Only For The Rich? - In 2015 to 2016, more than 12 million people in the UK were living below the poverty line. For many of them, key human rights are out of reach.

UK offer for EU citizens "far from generous" - The rights of EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens in the EU, should not be up for negotiation. There needs to be automatic and mutual granting of full rights. “Far from being very generous, the proposals are limited, and create significant new hurdles which EU citizens will need to overcome in order to access rights to residency and permanent access to entitlements in the UK.

EU exploring invisible border in Ireland post Brexit - EU officials working on one of the thorniest of Brexit conundrums — how to create a “seamless border” in Ireland — are exploring how regular ...

Brexit predictions from top think tanks were 'overly pessimistic' and the impact on UK trade will be ... -  BREXIT predictions from the Treasury, OECD and IMF on Brexit were “overly pessimistic”, academics have claimed. New research from the University ...

The laws coming into force in the UK over the next two years - The new Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill for many will have come very late, but it will mean a definition for domestic abuse and tougher sentencing ...

Number of Britons enduring 'persistent' poverty surges by 700000 in a year, figures show - But campaigners warn that the latest figures exclude the recent rise in child poverty rates in the UK , warning that the situation is set to get worse in the ...

Social mobility: radical reform urged to repair divided Britain - Social mobility: radical reform urged to repair divided Britain ... Child poverty has risen in the aftermath of the recession, with about 4 million – or 30% ...

Parents who worry about their children's sleeping habits are more prone to depression - Severe sufferers of the mental health condition saw their symptoms improve by almost 30 percent in mothers and 20 percent in fathers by week 24.

Bullying in Schools: UK Teachers Cracked Down on LGBT Student Harassment and It Helped -  British schools are also teaching more about LGBT issues like same-sex marriage and bisexuality, with some instructors featuring authors like Oscar ...

Is Southend High School for Girls England's most gay -friendly school? - Around 45% of pupils in Britain have been bullied for being gay , according to a study commissioned by gay rights charity Stonewall and carried out by ...

The UK Is Preparing To Distribute PrEP To “High-Risk” Groups - Heterosexual and transgender individuals and gay men will be clinically risk-assessed as part of combination prevention and those at high risk ...

Britain becomes more liberal: Number who oppose sex before marriage or gay relationships now a ... - In fact, if anything, the trend that has seen Britain happier than ever to ... that pre-marital sex is not wrong, and 55 per cent think gay sex is not wrong.

Angela Merkel U-turns on same-sex marriage - Angela Merkel has signalled she will allow German MPs a free vote on same-sex marriage, in what many are seeing as an attempt to woo liberal ...

Majority of UK Catholics and Anglicans see 'nothing wrong' with same-sex relationships and -    A recent survey has shown sharply shifting attitudes to sexual morality among British Christians: 73 per cent of Anglicans don't think premarital sex is ...

It's official! Liverpool is a top city for the LGBT community - of UK cities Birmingham and Cardiff. London and Brighton were also in the overall Top 10. Manchester, with its popular gay village centred around ...

German Parliament set to vote Friday on gay marriage - The German Parliament plans to vote Friday on whether to legalize same-sex marriage - only days after Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

Canadian military to focus on recruiting LGBT people - The Canadian military has announced plans to rebrand itself and recruit more women and members of the LGBT community. They hope this move will ...

44 people detained during Istanbul's banned LGBT pride event - Protesters wait before riot police move to detain several people as they stop protesters for lesbian , gay , bisexual, trans and intersex rights from ...

Ozanne motion seeks to label as 'unethical' therapy to change sexual orientation - THE General Synod is being urged to condemn conversion therapy as “unethical and harmful” by a member who says that undergoing it led her into depression and a breakdown. In a private member’s motion, Jayne Ozanne, an Evangelical from the diocese of Oxford, is asking the Synod to endorse a statement, signed this year by professional bodies, that conversion therapy “has no place in the modern world. It is unethical and harmful and not supported by evidence.” The therapy, it says, assumes that “certain sexual orientations or gender identities are inferior to others, and seeks to change or suppress them on that basis”. Signatories include the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Royal College of General Practitioners. Ms Ozanne is calling on the Archbishop’ Council to join them “on behalf of the Church of England”.

Here's all the things that Trump said June was the official month for… none of them LGBT Pride - Rewind to last year when Trump reached out to the LGBT+ community during his campaigning to let them know he was keen to protect LGBT equality ...

US Supreme Court to hear Colorado same-sex wedding cake case - Last year, a bakery in Northern Ireland lost an appeal over its refusal to make a cake for a gay rights group, with the case set to be heard before the UK  ...

Homophobic bullying drops at UK schools but suicides bids 'alarming': study - Stonewall's 2017 School Report questioned over 3,700 LGBT students and found one in five lesbian, gay and bisexual students have attempted suicide and two in five transgender pupils have tried to take their own lives. Ruth Hunt, chief executive of Stonewall, said the group's third School Report showed progress had been made, with 45 percent of LGBT pupils reporting bullying compared to 65 percent in 2007 and 55 percent in 2012.

Meet the young Brit-Aussie gay couple who will be live-streaming their civil partnership ceremony - James Besanville, a Gay Star News 26-year-old journalist, and fiancé Matt Horwood, a 28-year-old who works at UK LGBT charity Stonewall, will be ...

US bishop bans Catholic funerals for individuals in same-sex marriages - It borders on spiritual abuse to tell pastoral ministers and LGBT Catholics that, ... Vincent Manning of the UK -based Catholics for AIDS Prevention and ...