Welcome back to Global Quickies, your weekly world news roundup!
GERMANY
Starting next November, Germany will introduce a third gender option on birth certificates and will allow people to opt out of the gender binary.
AUSTRALIA
Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children will miss out on some family tax benefits. (from Jack99)
IRELAND
A poll among Catholic students finds that 66% don’t believe religion makes the world a better place, and ranked “looking good” as more important than religious beliefs. (from Gordon)
INDIA
The day after the murder of Narendra Dabholkar, the state of Maharashtra approved the law banning black magic and superstition.
ICELAND
Anti-gay preacher will headline an event next month, so activists reserved all tickets to have him preach to an empty arena.
MALDIVES
Flogging sentence of a 15-year old sexual abuse victim accused of fornication was successfully overturned after appeal and public outcry.
Featured image of Iceland from here.
Wow, that was a pretty uplifting Global Quickies, for a change! Thanks!
Daniela
I’m glad the Australian government will be encouraging parents to do the right thing and vaccinate their kids. That’s good news.
Link seems to be broken, try this
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-18/labor-to-cut-tax-benefit-for-parent-who-don27t-immunise-childr/4894390
Judging by the polls though we seem to be in for a conservative government by Tony Abbott (aka The Mad Monk) that will try to roll back progressive legislation.
Jack99
Thanks!
Fixed! Thanks.
Re: Iceland
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