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WA's Equal Opportunity Bill 2026, introduced this week, would end religious schools' power to discriminate over sexuality, the biggest overhaul of the state's anti-discrimination law in more than 40 years. Religion-based hiring stays. Here's what changes.
Open for Business puts the price of LGBTQ+ exclusion in Japan at ¥6.04–16.42 trillion a year, from health costs to a wage gap. With the population shrinking and no national anti-discrimination law, its message is simple: Japan can't afford to waste talent.
A government draft to replace Ukraine's 1971 Labour Code cleared a key parliamentary committee on September 25. It keeps the ban on discrimination over sexual orientation and gender identity at work. LGBTQ+ groups are pushing to add gender expression and sex characteristics before the final vote.
From a Sarajevo assembly member's Facebook post to Milorad Dodik's public remarks, Bosnian courts have issued a string of rulings this year finding anti-LGBTQ speech illegal. It's slow, but it's building something rare in the region: precedent.
Catalonia has overhauled its decade-old LGBTI protections with a tougher law that reaches into workplaces and public contracts, adds real teeth for trans and intersex people, and sets penalties running into the hundreds of thousands of euros. It comes into force in 2026.
Law 13/2025 updates a decade-old statute with fines up to €500,000, mandatory workplace protocols for larger companies, and LGBTI clauses written into public contracts.
Five years after parliament rebuilt the body that's supposed to protect LGBTQ+ people, religious minorities, and the disabled, new appointments are raising old fears that politics is about to gut it from the inside.
