World Wide Wave

24 Nov 2015

SPECIAL: The Right to Life

Africa and the Middle East, Asia/Pacific, Europe, News & Politics, North and South America, Worldwide

In Australia today, gay marriage is the hot issue for LGBT people.  But in many countries, for gay people, just to survive their daily lives is their biggest focus.

While the ‘Right to Life’ is a term synonymous with the abortion debate, what happens when you apply the concept to LGBT people?  So rather than being a specific country, tonight we look at how this most basic of human rights is being violated around the world in different ways.

Originally broadcast on 22 September 2015.

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