In the 19th century, the British brought the so called ‘sodomy law’ to all its colonies. 161 years later, LGBTIQ+ community in some 30 countries still fights to Repeal It.
Read moreAt least 2,456 elephants died in Sri Lanka in a decade (2008-2018). It means that one elephant a day dies in Sri Lanka from causes related to human activity. 2019 was the deadliest year, with 407 elephants killed, according to the Department of Wildlife Conservation in Sri Lanka . In 2020, despite the pandemic lockdown, 318 elephants and 112 people were killed on the island. Sri Lanka is considered the country with the world’s deadliest human-elephant conflict.
Read moreFaced by a complex intermarriage between land degradation and climate change, the Samburu of northern Kenya have to contend with rangelands that are increasingly unproductive and more frequent droughts.
Read more1366 - The first documents which stated that Bolko II the Small granted the Sachenkirchen family the right to build a heritable adit in Stary Zdrój near Wałbrzych. "It is not known, however, which mineral was mined there," writes Adam Frużyński in "Zarys dziejów górnictwa węgla kamiennego w Polsce". However, taking into account the location of the tunnel, it can be assumed that it was coal.
Read moreIn 1986, Sayeed Rohullah Khomeini, Iran’s first supreme leader, issued a fatwa, a religious edict, allowing a transgender woman, Mariam Khatoon Malek Araa, to have the first legally-sanctioned sex reassignment surgery (SRS) in the Islamic Republic.
Though Khomeini’s edict has allowed for hundreds of transgender people to undergo SRS at relatively low costs, the overall situation for transgender people in Iran has not seen much improvement over the last 35 years.
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