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(MENAFN - Dubai PR Network) • 15 programs launched in 2020 bringing the total number of programs to 227 since inception • Dubai Cares rolled out a nationwide fundraising campaign in support of students from low-income families in the UAE • Dubai Cares launched RewirEd, a new global education platform with the vision to rewire education for a prosperous and sustainable future • The United Nations Department of Global Communications (UN DGC) approved Dubai Cares as a member of its association     Dubai, UAE, 21 February 2021:  Despite the massive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on...

LGBT conversion therapy: Religious leaders call for ban to 'abhorrent' practice dw.com 12/18/2020 Elliot Douglas Over 300 religious leaders have called for a worldwide clampdown on conversion therapy for LGBT+ people. Germany is one of the few countries to have introduced a ban. DW spoke to two survivors of the practice. © REUTERS Provided by Deutsche Welle "We recognize with sadness that certain religious teachings have often, throughout the ages, caused and continue to cause deep pain and offense to those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex."...

The joint declaration follows the publication of ILGA World’s State-Sponsored Homophobia report 2020. According to these findings, 69 United Nation member states still, outlaw same-sex relations.  Director of Programmes at ILGA World, Julia Ehrt, addressed the challenges facing LGBTQ+ people in 2020, “For our communities, safe spaces dramatically shrunk overnight. Some governments took advantage of these circumstances and stepped up their efforts to oppress, persecute, scapegoat, and to violently discriminate against us. In many places where laws were already a cause of inequality, thin...