Panama: New Trans Discrimination Cases Under Covid-19 Measures

Click to expand Image Women practice social distancing as they wait in line to enter a supermarket, on a day that men must stay indoors in Panama City on April 3, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco (Washington DC) – Six transgender people have been stopped by security officials in Panama in recent weeks for allegedly violating Covid-19 curfew rules based on gender, even though the government had promised to resolve the problem, Human Rights Watch said today. The government needs to take more decisive steps to prevent the continuing discriminatory impacts of its gender-based quarantine…

Read complete article

~	‘Eye watering’ spending, growing debt make up surprisingly generous Victorian state budget

~	If the RBA’s right, interest rates may not fall for another year. Here’s why – and what it means for next week’s budget

~	Coalition demands amendments to government’s deportation bill, as crucial High Court judgement set for Friday

~	Expelling students for bad behaviour seems like the obvious solution, but is it really a good idea?

~	A story of trauma, hope and regaining control, Nayika: A Dancing Girl is soul-stirring dance theatre

~	Israel: US Arms Used in Strike that Killed Lebanon Aid Workers

~	UN: Revise ‘Pact for the Future’ to Focus on Rights

~	Trinidad and Tobago: Bring Home Children, Women Held in Iraq

~	‘Baby Reindeer’ highlights sexual violence against men – but feels indifferent to viewer safety

~	How does the drug abemaciclib treat breast cancer?