A request made by a transgender man for changing his gender in official records without undergoing sterilisation surgery was approved by a court in western Japan.

Japan allows transgender man to change official status without undergoing sterilisation in historic move

Japan's Supreme Court has said that a law that requires transgender people in the country to undergo sterilisation before gender-change surgery is unconstitutional, reported Nikkei newspaper.

Japanese Supreme Court deems sterilisation as precondition for sex-change unconstitutional

Forced sterilisation of women with disabilities may sound like a practice prevalent in lawless corners of the world but in reality, the practice is legal even today in many European countries.

Forced sterilisation of women with disabilities still haunts Europe

The Caribbean country of Sint Maarten has approved a controversial plan to cull the entire population of vervet monkeys, a species that has been labelled as a “nuisance” by locals on the Dutch island.

Sint Maarten to capture and kill entire population of vervet monkeys. Here's why

Chinese officials have finally acknowledged that birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year. According to a CNN report, they also denied reports of forced sterilisation and genocide by authorities in the far western region.

Xinjiang govt confirms birth rate drop but denies forced sterilisation of women

A sterilisation programme that ran in the US state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1974 was explicitly designed to "breed out" black citizens and met the UN definition of genocide, a study said this week.

US sterilisation programme tried to 'breed out' black people: Study

Sri Lankan prosecutors said on Thursday tests would be needed to establish whether a Muslim doctor had sterilised Buddhist patients, while there was no evidence to support other charges against him of links to terrorist groups or money laundering.

Prosecutors say tests needed before Sri Lanka sterilisation case can proceed

Japan on Wednesday passed a law compensating tens of thousands of people sterilised, often without their consent, under a government programme to prevent the birth of "inferior descendants" that remained in effect until 1996.

Japan passes law to compensate forced sterilisation victims

Congress, one of the two major political parties in India, proves to be an echo chamber as far as forced sterilisation is concerned

No planet of apes in India's hill state of Uttarakhand: Monkeys put on birth control pills

'If you get scared, just remember those food lines' say women who are opting for sterilisation in the country hit by food-shortage

Deep recession drives young Venezuelan women to sterilisation

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