US EditionKazakh Senate Approves Law Banning ‘LGBTQ’ Propaganda”
The laws ban public support of LGBT rights and authorize volunteers to enforce vague antisocial behavior rules, risking arbitrary suppression of expression, rights groups warn.
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Kazakhstan Draft ‘Morality’ Laws Threaten Rights
Click to expand Image Kazakhstan Senate. © 2018 SenateKz/Wikimedia Kazakhstan’s Senate adopted two rights-violating laws on December 18, both of them threatening freedom of expression. The first is a discriminatory draft law banning so-called propaganda of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) expression, which would make it illegal to publicly support LGBT rights. The clear intention of the bill is to silence all forms of pro-LGBT exp…
The Kazakhstani Parliament has passed a bill banning LGBT propaganda in the media and public spaces.
According to BAQ.KZ, in Kazakhstan, the Senate of Parliament passed a law on the prohibition of LGBT propaganda* and paedophilia in two readings, which was sent to President Kasimu-Jomart Tokaev for signature.
ILGA-Europe urges Kazakhstan’s President to reject anti-LGBTI legislation
Advocacy group ILGA-Europe has issued a strong appeal to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to reject controversial amendments approved today by the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which introduce sweeping “anti-LGBTI propaganda” restrictions into national law. The organisation warns that, if enacted, these measures would violate Kazakhstan’s Constitution and international human rights obligations, while posing a grave threat to freedom of ex…
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