World Wide Wave

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to March 16, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

It’s been named one of the most dangerous places in the world to be LGBT. It’s a former British colony that has retained the infamous colonial-era sodomy laws. But even beyond the laws, many people describe a culture of toxic masculinity and widespread homophobia. Welcome to Jamaica.

But is Jamaica finally being held to account? The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ruled that their laws against the “abominable crime of buggery” and acts of “gross indecency” effectively led to state-sanctioned violence against LGBTIQ Jamaicans. And pro-bono lawyer group, the Human Dignity Trust, was right there with local activists. Téa Braun from the Human Dignity Trust joins us in this podcast.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to March 9, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

A recent report described discrimination against LGBT people in this country as “pervasive”. Same sex sexual acts can result in fines, prison sentences of up to twenty years, and even caning. And now some members of the government want to make these laws even harsher. Welcome to Malaysia. Yet one gay man has taken on the law…and won. He took his sodomy charge to Malaysia’s top court who found the Islamic provision used was unconstitutional.

To help us understand why Malaysian society seems so unready to even accept LGBT people, we spoke with Dr Joseph Goh, a Senior Lecturer in gender studies in the School of Arts and Social Studies at Monash University Malaysia.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to March 2, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is state-sanctioned homicide as punishment for a crime. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes, capital offences or capital felonies, and vary depending on the jurisdiction. Globally, of the 195 UN members or observer states, 54 countries carry out capital punishment. And in some countries, the death penalty applies for same-sex sexual acts. But as we will learn tonight, the death penalty is just one part of the story.

Eleos Justice, Monash University in partnership with the Capital Punishment Justice Project here in Australia have delved into this complex and often hidden area to produce the first comprehensive study of its kind. The report is titled: State-Sanctioned Killing of Sexual Minorities: Looking Beyond the Death Penalty. It was launched this week with an international online forum. Guests include:

* Internationally-respected Australian jurist, Julian McMahon;

* Report co-authors: Associate Professor Mai Sato (director, Eleos Justice, Monash Faculty of Law) and Christopher Alexander (Eleos Justice Fellow, Monash Faculty of Law);

* Rasha Younes, covering the Middle East and North Africa for international advocacy group Human Rights Watch;

* Professor Paula Gerber, Eleos Justice Fellow, Monash Faculty of Law; and

* Roya Boroumand is the Executive Director, Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to February 23, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

Colombia is the most progressive country in South America for LGBTI rights. Discrimination was banned in 2011 and marriage equality achieved in 2016. Yet beneath the rosy legal exterior, discrimination is still evident and acceptance depends on what part of the country you live in.

Alejandro Rendon is Colombian born, now living in Melbourne. His recent marriage to his partner highlighted the progress and the challenges of LGBT acceptance in their home country. He joined us to give us an insight into LGBT life in Colombia and their transition to Australia.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to February 9, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

Much of Europe has been at the forefront of LGBTI rights, but it seems some countries didn’t quite get the memo. And with an active and growing backlash against LGBTI communities in countries like Hungary and Poland, their neighbours are left pondering which way to turn. Lithuania is one such country – at a crossroad of improving LGBTI rights or rolling them back.

Tomas Raskevicius is the first openly gay Parliamentarian elected in Lithuania. His party – the Freedom Party – placed LGBTI rights prominently in their election campaigning…and it worked. Now Tomas is working to make good on their promises in Parliament, particularly with LGBTI relationship rights.