Outrage News

The story of a 23-year-old woman gang-raped by six men on a moving bus, attacked with an iron rod, and thrown out of the bus in New Delhi, India (and the lack of proper official response to her case) has outraged the Indian society.

Guwahati - A 17-year-old teenage Indian girl was beaten, stripped and burned with cigarettes by a mob of men as she left a bar in India. The incident that happened late in the night in the Indian city of Guwahati has caused national outrage.

The Washington Post reports that German Nobel laureate, Günter Grass, is attempting to set the record straight on a poem that sharply criticizes Israel. Grass maintains he was attacking the government's current policies, and not Israel as a whole.

A gay campaigning group in the UK has joined the fight to get civil partnerships for straight couples. At the moment, they are available only to gay ones.

London - In a new video, the Shakesperean and Hollywood actor, Sir Ian McKellen, has spoken of his strong support for Peter Tatchell, the UK-based Australian-born human-rights campaigner.

A video of two young brothers being beaten by a lynch mob in Pakistan has outraged the country and provoked police to arrest several suspects. The boys were beaten to death for apparently taking part in an armed robbery.

One of the founding fathers of the fight for gay equality in Britain, Antony Grey, has died. He was 82. He had been suffering from leukaemia for some years and died in King Edward VII Hospital in London.

Two men on trial on charges of homosexuality in Malawi, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, have issued a defiant message from their prison cell, affirming their love for each other and thanking their supporters in Malawi and worldwide.

Protesters in London accuse Pope Benedict XVI of covering up child sex abuse by Catholic clergy and will demand his resignation on Sunday.

Human-rights advocates are calling for a same-sex couple in Malawi to be adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, after they were arrested for holding a traditional engagement ceremony.