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More than 17,000 people have demanded the BBC take down a documentary about young Iraqi girls being sold for sex - calling it 'disrespectful' to law-abiding
Shia Muslims.
The headteacher at the centre of a row over inclusive teaching told a court there had been 333% rise in homophobic attacks in a part of Birmingham, blaming
the surge on protests outside her school.
Uganda will not impose the death penalty for gay sex, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, after major aid donors said they were monitoring a plan by the
African nation to reintroduce a bill colloquially known as 'Kill the Gays'.
More than 300 young men have been freed from a second Nigerian Islamic boarding school where they were chained up and raped, following a similar raid last
month.
Three people charged with FGM offences against two primary school-aged sisters could face further punishment after Australia's high court ruled a New South
Wales court had erred in quashing their convictions.
Republicans in the US have reacted badly after Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke proposed ending the tax-exempt status of anti-LGBTQ churches
and nonprofits.
The government has published new guidance for schools facing disruption from religious groups who oppose LGBT-inclusive education. Alastair Lichten welcomes
the gesture but says the substance doesn't go far enough.
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