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2023-03-01 18:37:00+00:00
🇯🇵 Japan PM: Ban on same-sex marriage not discrimination
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is not discriminatory.
Asked by an opposition lawmaker at the parliamentary budget committee if he thinks a same-sex marriage ban constitutes discrimination, Kishida said “I don’t think disallowing same-sex couples to marry is unjust discrimination by the state.”
Activists are now urging the government to enact anti-discrimination legislation before Japan hosts a summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations. Japan is the only G7 member that has not recognized same-sex marriage or enacted an anti-discrimination law for LGBTQ people.
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2023-03-02 16:00:00+00:00
🇲🇾🇵🇠Malaysia vows to continue peace efforts in southern Philippines
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim vowed on Wednesday in Manila to continue efforts to help facilitate the peace process in the Muslim-dominated Philippine island of Mindanao.
Anwar said President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has made “great strides” in advancing the peace process in Mindanao in southern Philippines – an area that has long been plagued by poverty and separatist violence.
From 2001 to 2012, Malaysia served as a mediator in the negotiations between the Philippine government and Muslim rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The talks eventually culminated in the formation of the Bangsamoro autonomous region in 2019.
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