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.
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
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. * cook islands gay rights *
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
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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”.