Wedding planners, hotels, malls and mortgage brokers are hoping to cash in on the legalisation of same-sex unions.

The Christian Coalition of Churches in Namibia requested that President Nangolo Mbumba sign a bill amending the Marriage Act, which prohibits the...

Producers of “The Boyfriend” on Netflix hope it will encourage broader acceptance of the L.G.B.T.Q. community in Japan, which still has not...

Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration...

Last week, Sierra Leone’s parliament enacted landmark legislation to ban child marriage. The Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill 2024, which makes...

IN A RARE scene, the Opposition gave its support to the Government on the amendment to the Bail Bill which was laid and passed unanimously during the...

The lone justice to dissent called the Texas Supreme Court ruling to uphold the ban on gender-affirming care for minors "cruel" and...

Sunday Standard Govt’s deferral on decriminalising same-sex sparks fresh human rights concerns The Botswana Government’s decision to postpone...

The legal age of marriage is set at 18 for both male and female, according to the Marriage Act of Bhutan 1980 (Amendment Bill 2024), which the...