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Slovakia president announces referendum on same-sex marriage

Slovakia president announces referendum on same-sex marriage  - Slovakia will hold a referendum on same-sex marriage in the predominantly Roman Catholic country early next year.

LGBT Immigrants Have Very Little to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving

LGBT Immigrants Have Very Little to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving  - executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, told the Washington Blade. "This includes thousands of LGBTQ families — and people who ...

The Queer Conundrum

The Queer Conundrum  - I felt for a long time moving here, having friends and family members of the LGBTQ community, that there wasn't as much going on here in Eugene ...

Proud and Palace - The network for LGBT Crystal Palace fans

Proud and Palace - The network for LGBT Crystal Palace fans  - I've also felt that attending football is often an uncomfortable experience if you identify within the acronym LGBT (lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans); now if you're ...

Being gay in China: Does the rainbow flag fly free? Are there gay rights in China?

Being gay in China: Does the rainbow flag fly free? Are there gay rights in China?  - Here, I meet with some of the country's leading LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) advocates to learn about gay identity in China.

EA wins best LGBT workplace third year running

EA wins best LGBT workplace third year running  - EA has been doing all kinds of things to make themselves seem more appealing. From giving away free games to releasing a beloved Bioware title, ...

Nigerian Gay and Lesbian in UK's Most Influential LGBT

Nigerian Gay and Lesbian in UK's Most Influential LGBT  - According to The Independent, the honors were given to those who have bravely fought for the equal rights of LGBT even when equality wasn't even ...

LGBT Immigrants Have Very Little to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving

LGBT Immigrants Have Very Little to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving  - More than 267,000 undocumented LGBT immigrants currently living in the United States are not covered by Obama's executive decision.

Grand Rapids' The Network Sees Advocacy Facelift

Grand Rapids' The Network Sees Advocacy Facelift  - As announced in mid-October, the Network, the LGBT community center in Grand Rapids, has undergone an ambitious ...

Kyrgyzstan: UN rights experts urge Parliament to withdraw anti-gay bill «UN»

Kyrgyzstan: UN rights experts urge Parliament to withdraw anti-gay bill «UN»  - Instead of adopting legislation which de facto condemns lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) communities to silence, the authorities ...

Global warming could udercut efforts to eradicate poverty

Global warming could udercut efforts to eradicate poverty  - Climate change poses a substantial and escalating risk to development progress that could undermine global efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and ...

At risk in America Experts weigh in on how to lift children out of poverty, despite recent improvement

At risk in America Experts weigh in on how to lift children out of poverty , despite recent improvement  - The poverty rate for U.S. children under the age of 18 dropped for the first time since 2000 — from 21.8% in 2012 to 19.9% in 2013. That means 1.4 ...

World Bank: ending poverty might become impossible because of climate change

World Bank: ending poverty might become impossible because of climate change  - Ending poverty , increasing global prosperity and reducing global inequality, ... Climate change is already being felt across Latin America and the ...

Multicultural education expert joins ASU's 'Inside the Academy'

Multicultural education expert joins ASU's 'Inside the Academy'  - The free, open-source online archive of conversations with America's “best of the best” education luminaries was created by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley ...

Indian schools face decayed buildings, poverty

Indian schools face decayed buildings, poverty  - Federally owned schools for Native Americans on reservations are marked by remoteness, extreme poverty and a lack of construction dollars.

2.5 Million Children Are Homeless in US, New Data Reveals

2.5 Million Children Are Homeless in US, New Data Reveals  - A historic number of America's youth – 2.5 million children – are homeless ... Poverty rates are particularly high among African American families as ...

Race in America The fury of Ferguson

Race in America The fury of Ferguson  - But America's race problem is increasingly one of class. Blacks' biggest problem is now poverty , which is most visible in places such as Ferguson.

Photojournalist Steve Liss' exhibit at Endicott turns lens on poverty, America

Photojournalist Steve Liss' exhibit at Endicott turns lens on poverty , America  - A 10-year-old is fingerprinted during booking for marijuana possession in an image from “No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention,” a ...

Ecuador Recognized by UN for Poverty Reduction

Ecuador Recognized by UN for Poverty Reduction  - Ecuador Recognized by UN for Poverty Reduction ... This investment has had favorable results, as the poverty rate has dropped from 38 percent ... “The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean made it known that ...

Does This Definition Make Me Look Rich?

Does This Definition Make Me Look Rich?  - But the CBO report goes on to show that inequality in America , even after all these statistical contortions, just keeps getting worse. How much worse?

Undocumented immigrants qualify for some federal benefits under Obama's executive order

Undocumented immigrants qualify for some federal benefits under Obama's executive order  - The president's executive action stands to spare roughly 5 million people – about half of the undocumented population -- in the U.S. illegally from ...

Experimental Ebola vaccine passes 1st test in humans

Experimental Ebola vaccine passes 1st test in humans  - The 20 volunteers who were vaccinated in the clinical trial produced antibodies against Ebola and only two of the people receiving the highest dose ...

A warning for Latin America's faltering economies

A warning for Latin America's faltering economies  - Brazil and other Latin American economies have prospered by selling ... That sort of educational philanthropy is rare in Latin America — and the ...

Federal Judge Gives History Lesson on Anti-Gay Discrimination

Federal Judge Gives History Lesson on Anti- Gay Discrimination  - Any claim that Mississippians quietly accommodated gay and lesbian ... he was subjected to anti- gay discrimination by both white and black people , ...

EA Gets Perfect Score On LGBT Equality Workplace Index

EA Gets Perfect Score On LGBT Equality Workplace Index  - I can't believe they published this. This is barely journalism. I miss the days when I could own black people and people like these were beaten to death ...