Hungary's parliament should reject a bill that would prohibit discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation, and violates Hungary's international.
Hungary’s parliament should reject a bill that would prohibit discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation, and violates Hungary’s international legal obligations.
When Phillip Lühl and Guillermo Delgado went to court in Namibia, they weren’t trying to become activists. The couple, who were married in South Africa, simply wanted to live together with their children, as a family, in Mr. Lühl’s native Namibia.
But as their case and another similar one wind through the courts, they are drawing renewed focus to laws that criminalize LGBTQ people – such as lack of recognition for same-sex marriages. In recent years, similar restrictions have begun to topple across the region, and activists hope Namibia’s may be next. Those court challenges are, in many ways, a battleground of last resort, leapfrogging public opinion to secure legal rights.