Norway will prrise lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr refuge | Euronews

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• NORWAY WILL PRRISE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR REFUGE
• A NATNWI STUDY OF NORWEGIAN BELIEFS ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND LBIAN AND GAY PARENTHOOD

NORWAY WILL PRRISE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR REFUGE

Current statSce Apr 21, 1972Legal Norway fully repealed Sectn 213 of the Norwegian Penal Co, legalizg homosexual illegal, female legalSectn 213 of the Norwegian Penal Co fed sexual terurse between men to be a crime wh the punishment beg up to one year of imprisonment. Lbian, gay and bisexual people Norway are ls satisfied wh their liv than the general populatn, acrdg to a new survey om Statistics LGB+ populatn is particularly dissatisfied wh their personal fanc and mental health.

“At one end you have people who are dog really well, and at the other you have people who are dog extremely poorly, ” says Grønngsæ earlier study om Statistics Norway published last year shows that gays, lbians and bisexuals are somewhat more sceptible to worse mental health.

A NATNWI STUDY OF NORWEGIAN BELIEFS ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND LBIAN AND GAY PARENTHOOD

Norway is to prrise refuge who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr, the ernment has refuge will, for the first time, be given prry both as a group and dividuals when Norway selects for prev guil, vulnerable women and children were given new l will only apply for the transfer of refuge om one asylum untry to another for permanent rettlement. Acrdg to NGOs and rearch stut, cludg the Universy of Oslo, the Instute for Social Rearch, and the Organizatn for Sexual and Genr Diversy, hate speech on the ter agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr, and tersex persons ntued to be a problem.

In 1981, Norway beme the first untry the world to enact a law to prevent discrimatn agast homosexuals by amendg Paragraph 349a of s Penal Co, prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn the provisn of goods or servic and accs to public gathergs.

Several LGBT associatns exist throughout the untry, cludg the Associatn for Genr and Sexualy Diversy (Forengen for kjønns- og seksualetsmangfold), tablished 1950 as the first gay anisatn Norway, Queer Youth (Skeiv Ungdom), Gay & Lbian Health Norway, the Centre for Equaly (Liktillgssenteret) and the Transgenr Associatn (Forbunt for Transpersoner), among others.

81 / 100Public OpnAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors(World Valu Survey, 2017-2020)96% Did not mentn homosexuals4% Mentned homosexualsJtifiabily of homosexualy(World Valu Survey, 2017-2020)78% Jtifiable10% Not jtifiableOpn on same-sex upl as parents(World Valu Survey, 2017-2020)70% Agree16% DisagreeLawHomosexual activyLegalSce 1972Same-sex marriageLegalSce 2009Censorship of LGBT IssuNo censorshipRight to change legal genrLegal, surgery not requiredSce 2016Legal regnn of non-bary genrNot legally regnizedLGBT discrimatnIllegalSce 1981LGBT employment discrimatnSexual orientatn and genr intySce 1981LGBT hog discrimatnSexual orientatn and genr intySame-sex adoptnLegalSce 2009Servg openly aryLegalBlood donatns by MSMsBanned (1-year ferral)Sce 2017Conversn therapyNot bannedEqual age of nsentEqualSce 1972. In June 2000, a 25-year-old Morocn man’s applitn for asylum on the ground that homosexualy is punished Moroc had his applitn rejected by foreign service officials and the urt found unlikely that the man risked imprisonment were he sent back to Moroc [R1.

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Norway’s parliament outlawed hate speech agast transgenr people on Tuday, expandg s penal which has protected gay and lbian people sce found guilty of hate speech face a fe or up to a year jail for private remarks, and a maximum of three years jail for public ments, acrdg to the penal .

But reported homophobic crim have risen, acrdg to advocy group, bill was approved on s send readg whout a vote, a parliamentary spokwoman said, after was backed by lawmakers on s first readg last people are “an exposed group when to discrimatn, harassment and vlence”, Mister of Jtice and Public Secury Moni Maeland said. “It is imperative that the protectn agast discrimatn offered by the crimal legislatn is adapted to the practil suatns that arise, ” she told the Thomson Rters Foundatn emailed ments ahead of Tuday’s amendments outlawed discrimatn based on “genr inty or genr exprsn” and changed “homosexual orientatn” to “sexual orientatn”, meang bisexual as well as lbian and gay people will be explicly protected om the penal , people charged wh vlent crim n receive harsher sentenc if a judge cis their actns were motivated by someone’s sexual orientatn or genr law’s opponents argued that uld crimalise ee speech cricisg LGBT+ rights, said Ane Kielf, an assistant profsor of law at the Universy of bar for prosecutn is high, requirg direct cement agast people or language that humanis them, she said.