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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
4 July 2019
Teach them young – the importance of shaking up the national curriculum
We are marking each day in the week leading up to London Pride with a blog highlighting LGBTQ+ issues from home and abroad.
4 July 2019
London Climate Action Week: Climate refugees – an international legal conundrum
In the last week, Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said the world was increasingly at risk of “climate apartheid” where the wealthy pay to escape the impact of climate change and the rest of the world is left to suffer.
3 July 2019
Ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood is lifted, but there’s still work to do
The ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood was introduced in 1985, in response to the HIV and AIDs crisis impacting on the gay community. At the same time, techniques for testing for HIV were not as advanced as they are now, so it was felt it was simply too risky for gay and bisexual men to give blood. Despite there being significant advancements in HIV testing, unfortunately there are still limitations with gay and bisexual men giving blood.
3 July 2019
London Climate Action Week: International criminal law and the environment – considering a law of ‘ecocide’
In April 2019, Polly Higgins, a British barrister, passed away after devoting ten years of her life to a campaign for a new law of ‘ecocide’ – a law that would make corporate executives and government ministers criminally liable for the damage they cause to the environment. In this blog, we consider the current framework for punishing environmental crime at international level, and what the proposed crime of ecocide might look like.
2 July 2019
Pray the gay away: cull conversion therapy worldwide
Whilst Pride month is a time to celebrate, not everyone feels able to do so. There are people across the world, including in the UK, going through conversion therapy also known as reparative treatment.
