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A gay rights charity that fought for same-sex marriage in Bermuda’s courts has welcomed its last legal challenge this week. OutBermuda hailed its “final appeal in London for Bermuda’s historic marriage equality decision”. Legal arguments will be ...

A suspended police officer who denied posting a “grossly offensive” message on social media will have her case heard in the Supreme Court, it was confirmed yesterday. Magistrates’ Court heard that the higher court had accepted an application by Barbi...

The legal battle over same-sex marriage will be heard by the Privy Council in London next month, the court has confirmed. The Government has appealed against judgments in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal that sections of the Domestic Partnership...

Teenagers covered confidence, social media and relationships when they marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Malay Robinson, Christianna Warren and McKenzieKohl Tuckett took part in a panel discussion at Governme...

A pair of Uighur men brought to Bermuda from a US jail in Cuba have said they hoped to move to Canada to be with their families. Salahidin Abdulahad and Khalil Mamut have asked for permission to follow their wives and children to Canada. But the Cana...

Election candidates from all three parties have praised Bermuda for its high level of gender diversity in the workplace. Tinée Furbert, of the Progressive Labour Party, Gavin Smith, of the Free Democratic Movement and Daquan Scott, of the One Bermuda...

The Premier said last night he had asked for “an explanation” after a harassment accusation was made against a Progressive Labour Party MP in the last Parliament. David Burt added: “I was made aware of these complaints at no time earlier than last we...

A Czech court has ruled that the detention of a former Bermuda resident last year was a violation of human rights. Alan Stevenson, who worked in IT at HSBC from the mid to late 2000s, was held in the country for 4½ months over an alleged credit card ...

A former Bermuda resident who was detained in a Czech prison for months over an alleged credit card debt in the Middle East is to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights. Alan Stevenson, who worked in IT at HSBC in Bermuda from the mid t...

On June 1, David Burt, the Premier, addressed Bermuda in the wake of the death of George Floyd. At that time he also paid tribute to the late Eva Hodgson. In that speech, the Premier confronted the issue of institutional racism in Bermuda and said th...

The island’s human rights watchdog will reopen its doors tomorrow. A spokeswoman said that the Human Rights Commission, which has operated on a remote basis since the last week of March, was aware that some did not have access to other ways to get in...

Bermuda’s human rights watchdog today asked community leaders to protect the vulnerable after major restrictions were imposed to fight the spread of the coronavirus. The Human Rights Commission said that the homeless, abuse victims and people with me...