{"id":3361,"date":"2025-11-20T20:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:33:29","slug":"kazakhstan-another-blow-to-the-lgbtq-community-and-freedom-of-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/20\/kazakhstan-another-blow-to-the-lgbtq-community-and-freedom-of-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan: Another Blow to the LGBTQ Community and Freedom of Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lawmakers in Kazakhstan&#8217;s lower chamber, the Majilis, voted to pass restrictive legislative amendments that severely limit the dissemination of content related to &#8220;non-traditional sexual orientation.&#8221; The new law equates information about LGBTQ+ topics with the crime of pedophilia, a link human rights organizations strongly condemned as inaccurate and harmful. Rights groups warn that the law, which mirrors similar anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in neighboring Russia, risks further increasing deep-rooted discrimination and violence. The amendments impose significant fines for sharing information deemed to be &#8220;LGBT propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November 19, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/11\/kazakhstan-another-blow-to-the-lgbtq-community-and-freedom-of-expression\/\">thediplomat.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Kazakhstan&#8217;s lower chamber, the Majilis, voted to pass restrictive legislative amendments that severely limit the dissemination of content related to &#8220;non-traditional sexual orientation.&#8221; The new law equates information about LGBTQ+ topics with the crime of pedophilia, a link human rights organizations strongly condemned as inaccurate and harmful. Rights groups warn that the law, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}