In South Korea, there was a focus on hate and discrimination against transgender people in 2020 and 2021, when the Covid-19 backlash targeted LGBTIQ people.
The bill covers profiling and other acts of discrimination based on race, religion, or former incarceration in employment, education, access to public facilities, the delivery of goods and services, and in the exercise of political rights like voting.
Published June 2, 2021, 9:41 AM
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) expressed its support to the proposed legislation on Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination which seeks to protect minority groups including members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community against discrimination. In a statement issued on Wednesday, June 2, the IBP rallied all lawyers to help support and advocate the passage of the bill.
Last May 20, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Human Rights approved the consolidated version of the Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination bill.
The proposed law seeks to penalize acts that inflict stigma, vilification and ridicule; profiling; harm on health and well-being; abuses by State and non-State actors; and arbitrary detention and confinement against those belonging to these minority groups.