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21 Dec 2017 - NPWJ News Digest on on LGBTI rights
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Transgender Jewish woman wins review of child contact case
By The Guardian, 21 Dec 2017
An ultra-Orthodox Jew who left her community to start a new life as a woman has won the right to have her case reviewed in the high court after an earlier ruling that she should have no direct contact with her five children. The court of appeal has decided to refer back the case of the woman, known in court as J, who has not seen her children since leaving the tight-knit Haredi community in Manchester in 2015. After it became known that J was living as a woman, the community threatened to ostracise the family if they had any contact with her.
India’s first ever gay prince is opening an LGBT centre on palace grounds
By Pink News, 21 Dec 2017
A gay Indian prince is opening an LGBT centre on the grounds of his family palace, despite his family’s disapproval. The centre, which will be named Hanumanteshwar 1927, will be based on the grounds of Prince Manvendra’s palace in the Indian state of Gujara“It is important for the LGBT community to go to a place where they can experience the freedom to be who they are even if it’s for a moment,” Prince Manvendra told Gay Star News when interviewed about the centre. The centre will be run in conjunction with charity the Lakshya Trust, founded by the Prince before his coming out in 2006. The charity works with gay, bisexual and transgender people on a wide range of issues, including social acceptance and health.
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Indonesian Religion Minister’s Contradictory LGBT ‘Embrace’
By Human Rights Watch, 19 Dec 2017
Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin has a mixed messaging problem.On Monday, he called for Indonesia’s beleaguered lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population to be, “nurtured, not shunned.” That would appear to mark a reprieve from the onslaught of anti-LGBT harassment, intimidation, arrests, and violence – fueled by hateful rhetoric from other government officials – that has besieged Indonesian sexual and gender minorities for the past two years.
Turkey’s new ‘sultan’ wants to silence LGBTQ community
By Washington Blade , 19 Dec 2017
On Nov. 16, news came that the German LBGTQ Film Festival organized in cooperation with the German Embassy in Ankara had been cancelled. The human rights and LGBTQ communities were stunned. Yet for me, I had in mind the past incidents that had led to that moment in Turkey, especially ongoing constraints on freedom of expression and civil society. The 2013 Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul marked the first mass movement against the ever-growing authoritarian regime in Turkey, bringing together prominent figures from various parts of civil society, arts and culture, academy and even the corporate world. It became a milestone event that questioned the actions of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) run by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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