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Spike in HIV cases prompts Fiji to declare national emergency (opens the original)
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Fiji, a small Pacific island nation, on Sept. 15 declared a national emergency as it confronted one of the sharpest increases in new HIV infections globally. The surge had been building for years, prompting the government to begin intensifying its response two years before the emergency declaration. In 2024, the government adopted a four-year HIV Surge Strategy, covering 2024 through 2027, and later put in place a national plan to respond to the outbreak. UNAIDS and the World Health Organization
Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body proposes criminalizing LGBTQ people, advocacy (opens the original)
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Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body has proposed replacing the term “LGBT” with “LGSP,” grouping lesbian and gay people with sodomy and sexual abuse, as it prepares a proposed law that would criminalize conduct and advocacy it consideres prohibited. Asrorun Niam Sholeh, head of the Indonesian Ulema Council’s Fatwa Commission, announced the proposal in Jakarta in late July, saying the council was preparing an academic paper and draft bill to submit to the government and MPs The council in August
Proposed Indian foreign funding law overhaul could further pressure LGBTQ groups (opens the original)
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India’s proposed overhaul of its foreign funding law could put LGBTQ organizations that depend on overseas donations under new pressure. Introduced in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, on March 25, the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, or FCRA, would give a government-designated authority control over foreign funds, and assets when an organization loses or surrenders its registration. The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill returned to the spotlight
Same-sex couple challenges India income tax law (opens the original)
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India’s Income Tax Department has opposed a same-sex couple’s petition that challenges Section 56(2)(x) of the Income Tax Act. The provision exempts gifts between spouses from tax. The couple seeks the same benefit for their relationship. At the center of the challenge is the explanation to the fifth provision of Section 56(2)(x). According to the petition, the provision excludes same-sex partners from the definition of “spouse.” The petition describes that exclusion as unconstitutional. The pro
Taiwan’s government has failed to update process to change gender markers on ID documents (opens the original)
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More than four years after Taiwan began formally studying legislation to overhaul its legal gender recognition system, and despite repeated recommendations from international human rights experts, the government has yet to introduce a bill that would replace decades-old administrative rules governing how transgender people can change the gender marker on official documents. On May 15, an independent international review committee examining Taiwan’s implementation of the International Covenant on
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