News Bulletin 31 August 2012

The Sao Paulo region of Brazil has decided to allow three people to enter into a civil union — The European Court of Human Rights will hear the case of Lillian Ladele, the Christian marriage registrar who was disciplined by bosses for asking not to be involved in registering same-sex civil partnerships, on 4 September 2012 — A group of protestors gathered outside Parliament yesterday to call on the Government to reform Section 5 of the Public Order Act — Sex education has failed to tackle British teenage pregnancy rates over the last 40 years, an academic analysis of the data has concluded — And people who smoke cannabis regularly before the age of 18 run the risk of damaging their intelligence, a new study has shown.