Topics :: human rights
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Lisa Bloom Isn’t Impressed by Your ’Swagger’
By Chris Sosa | Saturday Jun 2, 2012
Lisa Bloom, the fiery civil rights attorney, television legal contributor, and best-selling author, talks to EDGE about her new book, thug culture, the importance of reading, and animal welfare.
Anti-Gay Homeschooling Outlawed in W’ern Canadian Province
By Jason St. Amand | Friday Feb 24, 2012
Alberta’s new Education Act forbids homeschools to teach children that being gay is a sin.
Hundreds Rally in Nepal for Sexual Rights
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Thursday Aug 18, 2011
Hundreds of gay, lesbian, transgender people marched with supporters in a southern Nepal town Sunday to demand equal rights under a new constitution the country is in the process of writing.
For Gay Iranian Refugees, a Matter of Life or Death
By Joseph Erbentraut | Monday Jul 20, 2009
The riots over a disputed election has produced new problems for the many gay Iranians who have fled their adamantly homophobic nation but remain hopeful for change.
Life Only Gets Worse for LGBT Iraqis :: Part 2
By Seth Michael Donsky | Tuesday Jun 9, 2009
What are the U.S. occupying forces doing to stop the carnage of Iraq’s gay citizens? Are words or threats enough to stop the death squads? In the second part of two articles, EDGE takes an in-depth look at one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time.
Play examines Iranian gay persecution
By Joseph Erbentraut | Wednesday May 20, 2009
"Haram Iran" returns for brief run at Center on Halsted. The play, by human rights attorney Jay Paul Deratany, tells the story of two Iranian teenagers tried and sentenced to death last year for committing "moral sins."
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