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Pink Dot 2013 was held on the night of 29 June at the Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park marking its fifth year with aims to recognize the efforts of Singapore's LGBT community. This year's list of Corporate Contributors for event has grown to include global financial firm J.P. Morgan , local hotel PARKROYAL on Pickering, contact lens specialist CooperVision and audio branding agency The Gunnery, in addition to giant Google and international banking group Barclays 39
Vietnam is notorious for squashing individual rights. When it comes to homosexuality, however, the ruling Communist Party is much more relaxed. Le Quang Binh, a prominent gay activist, says that the gay-rights movement has been the country’s most successful organised social movement in the past few years. The justice ministry is now proposing a modification to the law on marriage and family that would overturn a ban on same-sex marriage. The national assembly is due to debate the new proposals in October. Still, activists point out that the government’s position is not black-and-white. The government is unlikely to go the whole way and legalise gay marriage.
Judicial caning is a mandatory punishment for medically fit males between the ages of 16 and 50 who have been sentenced to prison for a range of violent and non-violent crimes, including drug trafficking, rape, and immigration offenses. A sentencing official may also order caning in cases involving some 30 other crimes. The United States State Department reported that in 2011 “2,318 convicted persons were sentenced to judicial caning, and 98.9 percent of caning sentences were carried out.” During its United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2011, Singapore rejected all recommendations designed to eliminate caning. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
The grassroots movement which was started in 2009 by a group of individuals, is a large public gathering where attendees are encouraged to wear pink to support the ‘freedom to love’, and ending intolerance and discrimination towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Singaporeans. Just before the festivities close, everyone is herded into a giant human pink dot, representing ‘openness and inclusivity’ within the ‘Red Dot’, a commonly used nickname for Singapore.
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