Thailand is one of the most tolerant countries in Asia when it comes to homosexuality, Male and female same-sex activity are both legal in Thailand. Though Same-sex couples does not have the same legal protection as other people who have a regular opposite-sex relationship. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in Thailand since 1956 and the age of consent was set to 15. Even though it was legal to be homosexual, it was still seen as signs of a mental illness or a defect. In the year of 2002, the Thai ministry of Health declared that homosexuality was no longer viewed as a mental illness or any sort of disorder. In 2005 the Thai armored forces allowed LGBT persons to serve in the military. Then in 2007 the Thai government made the definition of sexual assault and rape broader by adding that men can also be victims of rape and sexual assault. All these are good things but the Thai Red Cross still has a ban, which states that men who have sex with other men can’t be blood donors.

According to a non-profit organization called the Khon Thai Foundation, 56 percent of Thais between 15-24 think that homosexuality is wrong.

That means that over half of the young population in Thailand thinks that it’s wrong being gay.

And I think that one of the reasons that the discrimination is quite big is because there are no laws that prohibit discrimination towards a person’s sexual orientation in the country, which keeps occurring.

But if you travel to Thailand as a gay tourist, there are a lot of gay bars for you to enjoy."

Joakim, 14_tek_b

As it says earlier in the text, homosexuality is legal in Thailand but same-sex marriage is currently unrecognized. Homosexual couples also can’t adopt children because only married couples are allowed to adopt kids. So there is actually no real law that says, same-sex couples are not allowed to adopt, only that they can’t get married and therefore can’t adopt kids.

The term “Kathoey” is commonly translated as transgender in English but that word is not

commonly used in Thailand. The Term can be used to describe tans individuals but also homosexual males and it was originally used to refer to a intersex person. Because of all these confusing things, the most used translation of “Kathoey” in the English language is “Lady boy”. Currently Transgender individuals in Thailand face a number of social obstacles. Their families, and especially their fathers are normally disappointed if their kid becomes a kathoey.  But there is still a greater acceptance for the kathoey community in Thailand, if compared to most Asian countries. There are no legal recognition of kathoeys or transgender individuals is Thailand, if a trans person has had a genital reassignment they are not allowed to change their legal sex.

So overall Thailand is a lot more accepting of LGBT people compared to the rest of Asia’s countries, but they do not have many laws against discrimination of LGBT individuals. Trans persons are normally accepted but not as much from their families."

Ett av de projekt som kopplades till vårt arbete med kuben är vårt årliga "Country Project" som är ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt där fokus ska ligga på förståelsen för andra länder och kulturer, i detta fall engelsktaliga länder då engelskan är ett av de ämnen som driver projektet. I år lade vi till punkten att varje grupp skulle undersöka mänskliga rättigheter i de land de valt, de fick välja mellan kvinnorätt, barns rättigheter eller HBTQ. 

Här kommer undersökningen för Kina:

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China, the biggest country in the world is also the place where one of the biggest suppression of women’s rights are held.

The tradition of treating women like objects was held even in the far away past when ignoring right’s was almost a norm throughout every country. Even today in some parts of China where treating them like objects still applies, but it’s through something called ‘’arranged marriage’’. The family’s contract with each other makes that the two people have to get married and trade their riches with each other so that the family can benefit from it and not the one’s who marries. In other word, they trade away the daughter for things that can make it better for the family’s life.

In old China most of the women didn’t even get to have a name when they were born and when people were talking to them, they would use the husband’s or father’s last name when addressing them.

A famous sage and philosopher named Confucius was also the one who made the rules that women should obey their husbands and that family’s should always have at least one male heir to the family or else they would have “Sinned” and that would mean the end of the family line.

Concubinage is something that was common too in the past. It’s when a woman marries a man, but she’s just one of the many wife’s to make an heir to the family (a son) but she would be treated as more inferior than the first “real” wife.

Women’s rights in todays China are also still pretty bad in todays standard, their rights are so mistreated that in the recent past for example there were 5 women’s rights activists who were arrested because they wanted to encourage their rights by putting stickers on busses and other places.

They were all charged for ”picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and the day they were arrested was on the international women’s day too.

While time went on, most of the world’s country’s and even China’s women were getting better rights. China has been heavily influenced by the western world by adapting to their traditions when it comes to marriage, and as of 1950 (when the new marriage law was put into China) women can now choose what man they want to marry and divorce without needing a man’s help to do it.

Women worldwide and even in China have been given more rights throughout the years. But China is still a little behind todays expectations when it comes to equality. If it goes on like this however, women in not only China but also the whole world will get better rights and more equality."

Karim,  14_tek_b

Ett av de projekt som kopplades till vårt arbete med kuben är vårt årliga "Country Project" som är ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt där fokus ska ligga på förståelsen för andra länder och kulturer, i detta fall engelsktaliga länder då engelskan är ett av de ämnen som driver projektet. I år lade vi till punkten att varje grupp skulle undersöka mänskliga rättigheter i de land de valt, de fick välja mellan kvinnorätt, barns rättigheter eller HBTQ. 

Här kommer undersökningen för Kanada:

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Ever since the 1960s, the LGBT community in Canada has seen steady gains in rights. Even though the majority of Canada strides for the social acceptance and formal legal quality to LGBT people, there still exists people in many places throughout Canada that still chooses to discriminate.

Canada is internationally regarded as one of the leading nations in this field (LGBT rights). In 2005 Canada became the fourth ever country to legalise same-sex marriage.

In the many years homosexuality was criminalised, Britain were the ones ruling the country behind the curtains with their great influence on Canadian politics. Which is understandable since Canada had long been under their colonial rule.
Up until 1861 was “the abominable act of buggery” (aka sodomy) punishable by death, that rule was then changed and the sentence one received for the act of sodomy was 10 years imprisonment to life. They almost always targeted males primarily and used ambiguous language to, unnoticed by the normal eye, give tremendous power to the law enforcement of this rule.

Starting in the1860s, gays were usually charged with the crime of “gross indecency” and, later in the years 1946 and 1961 they further criminalised homosexuality by inventing categories such as “criminal sexual psychopath” and “dangerous sexual offender”. The latter one of the two had its definition to criminalise anyone “who is likely to commit another sexual offence,” and consequently criminalising any gay person who was not celibate (abstaining from marriage and sexual relations).

The struggle for equality in Canada currently has the trans people in its forefront. Currently the only provinces that explicitly include gender identity under their human rights codes are Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories."

 Philip, 14_tek_a

Ett av de projekt som kopplades till vårt arbete med kuben är vårt årliga "Country Project" som är ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt där fokus ska ligga på förståelsen för andra länder och kulturer, i detta fall engelsktaliga länder då engelskan är ett av de ämnen som driver projektet. I år lade vi till punkten att varje grupp skulle undersöka mänskliga rättigheter i de land de valt, de fick välja mellan kvinnorätt, barns rättigheter eller HBTQ. 

Här kommer undersökningen för Fiji:

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Children in Fiji don’t have much rights since poverty is really common in Fiji where it affects up to 43% of the population and 31% of the population lives below the poverty line. Up to 15% of the Fijian population lives in squatter settlements.

Health care are really bad to where 80% have access to medical care but only 40% have access to good medical care. The infant mortality for kids aged

Schooling is free up to the end of the second cycle but the school material cost too much so only 65% of the children’s are enrolled at the primary level and 33% at the secondary.

Child labour isn’t uncommon. There are 9,5% of children aged 10 – 14 and 23, 5% of those aged 15 – 19 who have been identified as workers. They are usually employed as domestic servants or as labourers on farms and in the fields. Children who live on the street turn to low skilled jobs such as shiners or porters but rapidly end up in prostitution or involved in pornography.

Discrimination exists as regards in both access to education and access to health care. There especially racial discrimination against girls because they are seen as less regarded than men.

Corporal punishment is legally permitted at home. There is an increased violence against women and children. In school corporal punishment is banned bit it still happens in some areas."

Robin, 14_El

Ett av de projekt som kopplades till vårt arbete med kuben är vårt årliga "Country Project" som är ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt där fokus ska ligga på förståelsen för andra länder och kulturer, i detta fall engelsktaliga länder då engelskan är ett av de ämnen som driver projektet. I år lade vi till punkten att varje grupp skulle undersöka mänskliga rättigheter i de land de valt, de fick välja mellan kvinnorätt, barns rättigheter eller HBTQ. 

Här kommer undersökningen för Ghana:

"The human rights in Ghana is something you would call a disaster as it is right now, But it is not the worst scenario but it is still far away from okay.

Their LGBT (LESBIAN-GAY-BI-TRANSGENDER) laws are one of them but there is much more.

Here you can read some of the LGBT laws and how it looks in Ghana right now!

                                                  
                   LGBT

Their LGBT Laws in Ghana are very harce and strict.

They have laws against same sex marriage even sex with the same gender is illegal and you can be prepared to face up to five to twenty years in prison at the age of sixteen.

But if two females endorse in same sex relationships the law do not seem to be taken as seriously as If there were men.

Ghana makes it very clear that it doesn’t matter where you are from or what the colour of your skin is, it is strictly forbidden.

People who are in a same–sex relationship are also forbidden from adopting Children and Everything else involving LGBT are also forbidden they cant even donate blood.

According to an African news agency it is said that those who get caught by this unfriendly laws against LGBT people often gets beaten up by the police, The Ghanaian government also sopped an LGBT conference that should have took place in the country.

Why do Ghana have these laws against peoples sexual orientations?

There is no easy answer to that question because there is multiple of reasons why a country would have these laws but the most important reasons is the fact that Ghana is not a democracy and It haven’t evolved in the way other countries have and therefore see things in an old fashioned way, they see things differently than others they have their culture and ideals and it is hard to change a country’s culture and ideals and because of that they are blinded and living with their beliefs in what is right and what is wrong.

In November 2011 Ghana’s president John Atta mills pledged that he would never initiate or support the legalising of homosexuality."

William, 14_Sam

Ett av de projekt som kopplades till vårt arbete med kuben är vårt årliga "Country Project" som är ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt där fokus ska ligga på förståelsen för andra länder och kulturer, i detta fall engelsktaliga länder då engelskan är ett av de ämnen som driver projektet. I år lade vi till punkten att varje grupp skulle undersöka mänskliga rättigheter i de land de valt, de fick välja mellan kvinnorätt, barns rättigheter eller HBTQ. 

Här kommer undersökningen för Sydafrika:  

"HOMOSEXUALITY– IT IS NOT A CHOICE 

 Ett av de projekt som kopplades till vårt arbete med kuben är vårt årliga "Country Project" som är ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt där fokus ska ligga på förståelsen för andra länder och kulturer, i detta fall engelsktaliga länder då engelskan är ett av de ämnen som driver projektet. I år lade vi till punkten att varje grupp skulle undersöka mänskliga rättigheter i de land de valt, de fick välja mellan kvinnorätt, barns rättigheter eller HBTQ. 

Här kommer undersökningen för Jamaica:  

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