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Iceland

Global News

Added on: 08/30/2024
08/29/2024
Már Gunnarsson is one of the LGBTQ+ competitors to keep your eye on at the Paris Paralympic Games, in and out of the pool. The world-record-breaking Icelandic swimmer is one of…

Global News

Added on: 01/03/2023
01/02/2023
In 2015, the Ukrainian parliament approved an anti-discrimination in employment law concerning sexual orientation and gender identity, and in 2016 Ukrainian authorities simplified the transgender transition process…

Global News

Added on: 10/02/2022
10/01/2022
Iceland has published its action plan on LGBTQ+ issues for the years 2022 to 2025, which includes an end to discrimination for queer blood donors, training in…

Global News

Added on: 05/20/2021
STRASBOURG, France (CN) — Iceland wasn’t wrong to deny parental rights to a lesbian couple who had a child via surrogacy, Europe’s top rights court held Tuesday….

Global News

Added on: 06/26/2020
Germany, Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Finland. These countries are among those with the lowest numbers of cases, deaths and, so far, the best responses…

Global News

Added on: 02/03/2020
02/02/2020
The parliament of this island country in the North Atlantic declared today it is increasing its travel ban to include American evangelicals who are members of the…

Global News

Added on: 10/24/2019
10/23/2019
An updated study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law ranked the world’s nations by levels of LGBT acceptance. The current report updates and expands…

Global News

Added on: 09/10/2019
09/09/2019
On 24 October 1975 90% of all women in Iceland went on strike. Twenty-five thousand women – more than 10% of the country’s population – made their…

Global News

Added on: 09/08/2019
09/05/2019
As Mike Pence pulled up to Höfði House in Reykjavík, he was met not only by Iceland’s president, Guðni Jóhannesson, but also a row of rainbow flags….

Global News

Added on: 06/21/2019
06/20/2019
Iceland passed a law on Tuesday (18 June) making it easier for transgender and non-binary individuals to change their personal identification. The Icelandic Parliament passed the Gender…

Global News

Added on: 06/01/2019
05/31/2019
On May 24, 2019, same-sex couples in Taiwan registered their unions as the country’s historic new law legally recognizing same-sex marriages went into effect. On the same…

Global News

Added on: 01/07/2019
01/05/2019
Despite being one of the more socially liberal countries, Iceland still has a ban on gay men donating blood. One of the chief epidemiologists in Iceland has urged…