LGBT Rights Cook Islands: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- ANALYSIS-LGBTQ+ RIGHTS LAG PACIFIC SPE COOK ISLANDS' GAY SEX MOVE
- U-TURN? COOK ISLANDS SET TO RETA GAY SEX BAN
ANALYSIS-LGBTQ+ RIGHTS LAG PACIFIC SPE COOK ISLANDS' GAY SEX MOVE
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HistoryHomosexual activy Cook Islands?
Homosexual activy Cook Islands is legal. Equal age of nsent Cook Islands is when Homosexualy bill passed. *Cook Islands is latt natn to crimalise gay sex*LGBTQ+ activists fight for change other island natns*Conservative attus lim gas on gay, trans rightsMELBOURNE, April 21 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A move to crimalise gay sex the Cook Islands is a wele step but LGBTQ+ people the Pacific Islands regn still lack basic rights and risk discrimatn - or worse - at every turn, activists say.
Announcg his support for the change parliament, Prime Mister Mark Brown said the law outlawg homosexual activy – a vtige of Brish lonial le – was “a discrimatory and unjt law that go agast our nstutn and our valu as a natn”.
U-TURN? COOK ISLANDS SET TO RETA GAY SEX BAN
A move to crimalise gay sex the Cook Islands is a wele step but LGBTQ+ people the Pacific Islands regn still lack basic rights and risk discrimatn - or worse - at every turn, activists say. * cook islands gay rights *
The Marshall Islands was first to act 2005, Fiji followed 2010, Pal 2014 then N other parts of the vast Pacific Islands regn, which is home to about 12 ln people, bans rema Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guea, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu, male homosexual acts are illegal and punishable by up to 14 years prison. In the Solomon Islands, same-sex sexual relatns are outlawed for both men and rarely enforced, the bans uphold a wispread prejudice agast LGBTQ+ people, said Tfu’i ‘Ae Valu Nfahu, an activist who is Tonga’s first openly gay 2021, a man was sentenced to life prison for the murr of Polikalepo Kefu, a leadg figure Tonga’s LGBTQ+ muny, what Nfahu lled a “hate crime”. “I never thought the Cooks Islands would crimalise homosexualy.
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - In an apparent U-turn on plans to crimalize homosexualy, lawmakers om the South Pacific Cook Islands are phg to reta a law that uld jail men for gay sex a blow to LGBT+ rights self-erng natn of 15 islands wh a largely Christian populatn of about 17, 000 people has been batg whether to scrap a law which, spe never havg been enforced, would impose a sentence of up to seven years. Legislatn drafted 2017 appeared to remove referenc to the gay sex ban but a lawmaker reformg the untry’s five--old penal said last week that homosexualy would rema illegal, acrdg to lol media. “There were provisns (on homosexualy) removed om the draft bill and people said they have got some ncerns about , ” Tgika Elikana told Cook Islands News.
“If you remove those provisns, then you more or ls enurage (homosexualy) to be the open. Myanmar, Malaysia, Sgapore and Bnei ban sexual relatnships between men, and Indonia has seen an crease raids targetg LGBT+ people recent groups said the Cook Islands was jog untri such as Bnei rollg back gay rights. The Cook Islands News reported the Crim (Sexual Offens) Amendment Bill 2023 remov a provisn of the Crim Act 1969 that had punished homosexualy wh up to five years prison.