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Singapore's Education Minister says LGBT people face no discrimination

Singapore’s Education Minister Ong Ye Kung has declared that LGBT people face no discrimination in the island nation. His comments come as there is growing pressure on the government to descriminalise homosexuality.

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Today Online has reported that the minister told a forum of business leaders on Friday that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Singapore faced no discrimination in their workplaces, housing or education.

The minister told the crowd that the issue of recognising LGBT rights was not a stand along issue,  “it is also an issue of social mores and societal values” the minister said.

Singapore has been under increasing pressure to remove the colonial era Britsh law after India’s Supreme Court removed near identical laws declaring them unconstitutional.

A fresh legal challenge to the law has been launched by a Singaporean DJ who is in a same-sex relationship. A recent survey however showed that the majority of Singaporeans were against decriminalising homosexual activity.

OIP Staff


 

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