Anti-LGBT sentiment

Government of Canada lists four new terrorist entities

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Friday, June 25, 2021
Terrorism, Articles, Politics, Organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, Anti-LGBT sentiment, Antisemitism in Iraq, Antisemitism in the Middle East, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Government of Canada has placed four new terrorist entities on the Criminal Code list, including:

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  • The Government of Canada has placed four new terrorist entities on the Criminal Code list, including:
    two ideologically motivated violent extremist groups: Three Percenters and Aryan Strikeforce;
    one American neo-Nazi who has provided ideological and tactical instruction on how to operate a terrorist group to listed entities: James Mason; and,
    one Daesh affiliate: Islamic State Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • The Criminal Code list of terrorist entities is an important tool to help us keep pace with these evolving threats and global trends.
  • - The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
    With these additions, there are now 77 terrorist entities listed under the Criminal Code.
  • This marks the second time an individual has been added to the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities.

Rainbow Faith and Freedom calls on Canadians to help Combat Homophobia with new crowdfunding campaign

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Articles, Anti-LGBT sentiment, Human behavior, Bullying, Homophobia, Violence against men, Violence against women, Transphobia, Discrimination

Today, Rainbow Faith and Freedom (RFF) is calling on all Canadians to help combat homophobic discrimination through a new campaign focused on protecting and supporting the LGBTQ2S+ community.

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  • Today, Rainbow Faith and Freedom (RFF) is calling on all Canadians to help combat homophobic discrimination through a new campaign focused on protecting and supporting the LGBTQ2S+ community.
  • The organization is raising money through a crowdfunding campaign to contribute to its global movement to end religious-based LGBTQ2S+ discrimination, homophobia and transphobia and improve the human and equality rights of LGBTQ2S+ people everywhere.
  • RFF focuses on the moments at which religious-based discrimination and homophobic discrimination intersect and have established a Canadian program devoted to addressing this intersection.
  • Brent Hawkes, as Canadians, we must stand up against these disgusting acts of homophobia that are fundamentally against our values.

Rainbow Faith and Freedom Launches Pride Month with Major Research Report: Mapping the Landscape of Faith-Based Heterosexist and Transphobic Discrimination in Canada

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Articles, Personal life, Anti-LGBT sentiment, Sexism, Queer theory, Neologisms, Bullying, Heterosexism, Transphobia, Heteronormativity, Discrimination

While a largely secular society, Canadas institutions are built on a foundation of Christianized norms of heteronormativity and transphobia.

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  • While a largely secular society, Canadas institutions are built on a foundation of Christianized norms of heteronormativity and transphobia.
  • In a landmark 27-page report, RFF introduces the wide landscape of faith-based 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination.
  • This report addresses the most critical areas of where faith-based discrimination operates, surveying research from the last fifteen years, and documents the long-lasting impacts of this exclusion.
  • The full report, Mapping the Landscape of Faith-Based Heterosexist and Transphobic Discrimination in Canada, will be released on Thursday, June 3rd.

Temenos MarketPlace Welcomes Taurus, the Next-Generation Digital Assets Platform, to Unlock Banks’ Access to Crypto Assets

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Monday, May 17, 2021
Professional services, Data management, Technology, Finance, Software, Banking, Personal life, Articles, LGBT, Anti-LGBT sentiment, Hatred, Sexism, Transphobia, Financial technology, Homophobia, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Temenos, Taurus SA, TEMENOS, TAURUS SA

By joining forces, we can help banks to bridge the gap between traditional investments and digital assets.\xe2\x80\x9d\nTaurus\xe2\x80\x99 technology is available to Temenos\xe2\x80\x99 clients through Temenos MarketPlace, a curated community of best-in-class fintech solutions that complement Temenos software.

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  • By joining forces, we can help banks to bridge the gap between traditional investments and digital assets.\xe2\x80\x9d\nTaurus\xe2\x80\x99 technology is available to Temenos\xe2\x80\x99 clients through Temenos MarketPlace, a curated community of best-in-class fintech solutions that complement Temenos software.
  • MarketPlace solutions are pre-integrated for rapid implementation and time-to-value.\nRegister for TCF Online 2021 to learn more about Temenos MarketPlace.
  • Taurus offers enterprise-grade market infrastructure solutions for digital assets as well as other financial services to its clients.
  • Taurus solutions are in production and entrusted with the full spectrum of banks: systemic banks, investment banks, private banks, retail/digital banks, crypto-banks, trading venues.

HELP Programme on fighting racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia launches in Spain

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Friday, October 16, 2020
Anti-LGBT sentiment, Hatred, Articles, Aggression, Sexism, Transphobia, Homophobia, Human behavior, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

On 8 October, FRA gave a presentation drawing from its research on the fight against Homophobia and Transphobia at the launch of the Council of Europes Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme in Spain.

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  • On 8 October, FRA gave a presentation drawing from its research on the fight against Homophobia and Transphobia at the launch of the Council of Europes Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme in Spain.
  • The programme aims to support Council of Europe Member States in implementing European human rights norms in the fight against racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia.
  • This particular programme is aimed at lawyers, judges and prosecutors in Spain as well as lawyers in Latin America.
  • The Council of Europe launched the programme in cooperation with the General Council of Lawyers in Spain.