{"id":332697,"date":"2021-10-01T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/human-rights-lawyers-call-on-uk-government-to-ban-conversion-therapy"},"modified":"2021-10-01T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:00:21","slug":"human-rights-lawyers-call-on-uk-government-to-ban-conversion-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/01\/human-rights-lawyers-call-on-uk-government-to-ban-conversion-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights lawyers call on UK government to ban \u2018conversion therapy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say all practices, including prayer, aiming to change sexual orientation or gender identity must be criminalised<\/p><p>Leading human rights lawyers and experts have called for swift action to outlaw so-called conversion therapy, which they say is degrading and harmful, and should not be tolerated in a civilised society.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/01\/britain-laws-protect-lgbt-people-conversion-therapies-coercive\">The Forum, chaired by Helena Kennedy QC, says<\/a> all practices, including prayer, that seek to suppress, \u201ccure\u201d or change sexual orientation or gender identity must be criminalised. There should be no defence that a victim appears to have consented.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/human-rights-lawyers-call-on-uk-government-to-ban-conversion-therapy\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/human-rights-lawyers-call-on-uk-government-to-ban-conversion-therapy\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say all practices, including prayer, aiming to change sexual orientation or gender identity must be criminalisedLeading human rights lawyers and experts have called for swift action to outlaw so-called conversion therapy, which they say is degr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,640,1336,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332698,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332697\/revisions\/332698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}