The economic cost of homophobia to anti-LGBTQ nations
A new report has revealed that the more than 70 countries that criminalise homosexuality suffer significant economic disadvantages as a result, thereby hampering their development and prosperity. These costs include lost tourism revenue, lost inward foreign aid and investment and lost talent and skills as LGBT+ people flee abroad. The human rights abuses meted out […]
“They hate God”: Cape Town’s anti-gay pastor at it again
It appears that Cape Town hate pastor Oscar Bougardt cannot stop himself from continuing to attack the LGBTQ community, despite the threat of jail. In May, the preacher was again found guilty of making comments that are “discriminatory or incite hatred or harm on the grounds of sexual orientation.” This was in connection with his violating a […]
US pulls out of UN Human Rights Council
Accusing it of being a hypocritical “protector of human rights abusers,” the US has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). On Tuesday, Nikki Haley, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, made the announcement in a scathing press conference in Washington, DC. “For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a […]