Archive for July 2025

Clause positioning homosexuality as a crime alongside paedophilia and incest ‘has no place in a post-377A Singapore’, actor and blogger say

The University of Connecticut’s Graduate School of Social Work had been awarded a five-year grant of just over $3 million as part of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which Congress passed in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The grant was meant to support 25 graduate students in social work to provide mental health services in four Connecticut school districts

Hannah Hurley, a housing advocate, said “criminalization policies make the problem of homelessness worse…. When homeless people are saddled with crippling high fines and fees for camping or incarcerated for having to live outdoors, it hurts their employment and housing options, access to education, family sustainability and communities,” said Hurley, a former member of the city’s Homeless Task Force. “This is not an effective way to keep our communities safe.”

Disabled people’s organisations say Scotland’s new Disability Equality Plan marks a “step in the right direction”, but must be followed by action to address deepening poverty, discrimination and exclusion.

A review led by Alice Sullivan, a Professor of Sociology at University College London, said free speech and academic freedom have come “under attack” at UK universities by those who believe “treating sex as an important category ‘denies the existence’ of trans people”. Protests called for the dismissal of Professor Kathleen Stock (above) in 2021 over her views on gender identity