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Transgender Health Rights Boosted by Hospitals’ ‘Separate Room’ Policy
Transgender people and civil society organizations have welcomed the decision of the chief minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to allocate separate rooms in hospitals for the transgender co...
IPCI 2024: Oslo Conference Focuses on Parliamentary Power over Reproductive Rights
Gearing up for the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the world’s parliamentarians and ministers are meeting in Oslo to determine the course ...
Gender Rights: Resistance Against Regression
Global progress on gender rights has slowed almost to a halt. After decades of steady progress, demands for the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people now play out on bitterly contested territory. Ov...
Greece: Another First for LGBTQI+ Rights
After almost two decades of civil society campaigning, Greece’s parliament has passed a law enabling same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. It’s the first majority-Orthodox Christian c...
Is Anti-Woke a Grass-Root Movement?
“Woke” was for a century, especially among black people in the US, an inspirational concept. However, almost overnight it turned into a pejorative. Like using the term “politically correct�...
Serbia’s Suspicious Election
Serbia’s December 2023 elections saw the ruling party retain power – but amid a great deal of controversy. Civil society has cried foul about irregularities in the parliamentary election, but...
Fear as Russian Anti-LGBT Law Comes into Effect
“This is what you get after ten years of state propaganda and brainwashing,” says Anatolii*. The Moscow-based LGBT rights activist’s ire is directed at a recent ruling by Russia’s Supreme...
Latvia: A Vital First Step Towards Marriage Equality
Last month the Saeima, Latvia’s parliament, passed a package of eight laws recognising same-sex civil unions and associated rights. The new legislation came in response to a 2020 Constitutional...
Mauritius Begins to Correct a Historic Wrong Towards LGBTQI+ People
In response to lawsuits brought by LGBTQI+ activists, the Mauritius Supreme Court has issued two landmark judgments striking down the criminalisation of consensual sex between adult men as uncons...
Maldives Election: What Now for Civil Society?
Ahead of the presidential election, Solih faced accusations of irregularities in his party’s primary vote, in which he defeated former president Mohamed Nasheed. The Electoral Commission was ac...
Press Freedom and LGBTQ+ Rights: Benchmarks of Democracy Decline in Southeast Asia
Three notable events have boosted the democratic process in Southeast Asia in recent decades. The fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Reformasi that shifted Indonesian politics in the late 199...
Nepal’s Same-Sex Marriage Breakthrough
Nepal is the latest country to join the global wave of marriage equality. On 28 June, its Supreme Court ruled that the government must immediately offer temporary registration of same-sex marriag...
Vulnerable Women Suffer the Worst Face of Discrimination in Argentina
Remi Cáceres experienced gender-based violence firsthand. She struggled, got out and today helps other women in Argentina to find an escape valve. But because she is in a wheelchair and is a for...
Central America Fails to Acknowledge or Legislate in Favor of LGBTI Community
There is still a long way to go before the LGBTI population in Central America stops being discriminated against and begins to make progress in gaining recognition of their full rights, including...
Hopes for Renewal Dashed in Turkey
Turkey’s election hasn’t produced the change many thought was on the cards. Now women’s groups, LGBTQI+ people and independent journalists are among those fearing the worse. Recep Tayyip Er...
No Parent Should Ever Be in the Position We Find Ourselves, Say Mothers of LGBTQ+ People in Uganda
The mothers of LGBTQ+ individuals in Uganda have taken a stand against Bill passed by the Ugandan Parliament proposing the death penalty for aggravated homosexuality, life imprisonment for the �...
International Human Rights Law As a Tool To Stop Rising Homophobia in Africa
Imagine your government enacted a law where you and all people of your race or economic status were imprisoned for extended periods, with some facing the death penalty, simply for existing. In Ug...
The LGBTIQ+ Community Still Oppressed in Venezuela
The vulnerability and struggles of the LGBTIQ+ community in Venezuela were once again highlighted when the Supreme Court finally annulled the military code statute that punished, with one to thre...
Civil Society a Vital Force for Change Against the Odds
Brave protests against women’s second-class status in Iran; the mass defence of economic rights in the face of a unilateral presidential decision in France; huge mobilisations to resist governm...
Uganda: UN Experts Condemn Egregious anti-LGBT Legislation
A group of UN experts* on human rights has blasted the Government of Uganda for making homosexuality punishable by death. “It is an egregious violation of human rights, the experts said, urging...
Hate Attacks Against LGBTQI People Increase in Europe – Report
When D.A.* first heard about the fatal attack on a gay bar in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, last October, their first reaction was a mix of grief, shock and anger. But then, soon after, the uni...
Russia and Ukraine: Civil Society Repression and Response
Over the year since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, on one side of the border civil society has shown itself to be a vital part of the effort to save lives and protect rights – but on t...
Russia’s LGBTQI ‘Propaganda’ Law Imperils HIV Prevention
A new law banning LGBTQI ‘propaganda’ in Russia will further stigmatise LGBTQI people in the country and could worsen what is already one of the world’s worst HIV/AIDS epidemics, critics ha...
LGBTI in Iraq: Defending Identity in the Face of Harassment, Stigma and Death
It’s mostly people in their twenties sitting on a terrace in the shade of a beautiful grove of trees: black clothes, piercings, tattoos and some purple streaks in their hair. It could be a tren...
Arbitrary Arrests in El Salvador Hit the LGBTI Community
Police raids against gang members in El Salvador, under a state of emergency in which some civil rights have been suspended, have also affected members of the LGBTI community, and everything poin...
Pakistan’s Transgender Legislation in the Line of Fire
It has taken four years for some politicians to oppose a landmark law protecting the rights of transgender persons, saying it’s against Islam and the country’s constitution. “This is an imp...
Peruvian Trans Women Fight for Their Right to Identity
“Without recognition of your identity by the State and society, there is no exercise of citizenship or rights,” said Leyla Huerta, director of Féminas Perú, an organization that has been wo...
Why We Need a Digital Safe Space for LGBTQ Youth – Thoughts from Asian Teens
Recently, I watched a documentary titled Why We Can’t See Disabled People . It chronicled how disabled people fought for their right to mobility throughout the past 20 years—and how the publi...
Women Leading Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine, Now Include them in Leadership, say UN Women and CARE
A joint UN Women and CARE report on the gender disparities in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis calls for donors and humanitarian partners to take greater care to promote the voices of women and m...
Those Who Dare: Voices of Women in the MENA Region
When it comes to gender equality and development, the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and the Arab States region continues to be in a paradoxical situation. While within the region, several laws...
Feminism Weaponized Against Trans People
There is a resurgence of anti-trans sentiment right now. It’s not only Dave Chapelle’s toxic rants in his most recent Netflix special: we see it across social, political and cultural arenas i...
The Forbidden Love
Abandoned by family and friends, transgender people in Bangladesh are subject to extensive daily abuse. The existing and continuously growing transphobia and homophobia in society are obstacles i...
Nothing About Us, Without Us, Asian Youth Tell Parliamentarians
Youth advocates from Asian countries called for an overhaul of a system that excluded young people from participation in policymaking. During an interaction with parliamentarians from 23 countrie...
A Film Challenging Religious Norms
When Turkish- Norwegian writer and filmmaker Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen heard about Seyran Ates’ mixed gender mosque in Berlin, Germany, she immediately decided to make a film on Seyran’s life. I...
Anti-Gay ‘Therapy’ Offered at Uganda Health Centres Run by Aid-Funded Groups
At Mulago, Uganda’s biggest public hospital, a receptionist at an HIV clinic for marginalised and ‘most at risk’ populations, including LGBT people, said that an undercover reporter’s 17-...