{"id":253458,"date":"2014-05-17T21:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253458"},"modified":"2014-05-17T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T17:43:15","slug":"lgbt-people-more-legally-protected-in-georgia-than-armenia-or-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/17\/lgbt-people-more-legally-protected-in-georgia-than-armenia-or-azerbaijan.html","title":{"rendered":"LGBT People More Legally Protected in Georgia Than Armenia or Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">More than 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is punishable by imprisonment, lashes or even death, according to an annual report issued by the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) on the eve of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe report shows that there is not a single country where LGBT people enjoy equal legal rights with their heterosexual counterparts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFive countries &mdash; Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen &mdash; still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMore than 1.3 billion people, however, live in countries with some form of legal protection against discrimination against LGBT people, while 780 million live in countries with same-sex marriage or civil unions. More than a billion people live in countries which bar workplace discrimination against LGBT people.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs in the past, this year too Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Russia were among the top ten worst countries in terms of protecting the rights of the LGBT community. In these countries, LGBT people are not legally protected in the workplace, and there are no clear laws on the protection from hate speech, as well as same-sex marriage and the adoption of children.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn this region, only Georgia legally protects members of the LGBT community from discrimination in the workplace and hate speech. At the same time, the report notes that there are no clear laws on same-sex marriage and the adoption of children.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is punishable by imprisonment, lashes or even death, according to an annual report issued by&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,65988],"tags":[13716,10405,26606,16144,55544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}