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Added on: 04/26/2023
Margerita Afom
Alturi Contributor
The Caribbean has thirteen sovereign states, each with distinct rights and protections for the LGBTI community. However, like many nations with a history of colonization, the views…
Added on: 04/18/2023
Margerita Afom
Alturi Contributor
There is no formal definition of third-gender identity in India, and people who identify as neither men nor women are referred to as Hijra. Which, in Western…
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Added on: 04/04/2023
Margerita Afom
Alturi Contributor
In the last year, Ukraine’s society has shifted its perspective on the LGBTI community. While LGBTI activists worked to resist the imposition of conservative Russian attitudes, LGBTI…
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Added on: 02/28/2023
Margerita Afom
Alturi Contributor
On January 6th, 2023, Chiloba was found dead in a metal box on the side of the road near the western Kenyan town of Eldoret. Chiloba was…
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Added on: 04/19/2022
Hunter Slingbaum
Alturi Contributor
For the past decade or so, South Korea has been experiencing a surge in widespread international attention. The rise of K-Pop (Korean pop music) and K-Dramas (Korean…
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Added on: 08/26/2021
Alturi Project Strategist
Canada leads with a perfect 10.0 sexual orientation gender identity legal index (SOGI-LI) SOGI-LI ranks countries by the recognition and protection their laws offer LGBTI people. Canada…
Added on: 08/01/2021
Alturi Project Strategist
X is a path forward in the inclusion of all human beings to be recognized and protected X as an option for gender identity goes beyond just…
Added on: 06/26/2021
Alturi Project Strategist
Historical Context Moving forward in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) human rights is challenging, especially with additional obstacles presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. More importantly,…
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Added on: 05/14/2021
Alexander Champeau
Alturi Contributor
Guatemala: LGBTI Interaction with Society and State As Equaldex notes, LGBTI rights in Guatemala are, at least on paper, quite elevated. The site notes that “homosexual activity”…
Added on: 04/26/2021
Alexander Champeau
Alturi Contributor
Four Months of Protests: LGBTI Protesters, From Bogazici to Now Starting in early January, students at Bogazici University went out into the streets to protest a new…
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Added on: 04/08/2021
Alexander Champeau
Alturi Contributor
Background on the Protests Thailand has a long history of coups, and as a result of these coups a long history of unstable government. Over the course…
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Added on: 03/30/2021
Alexander Champeau
Alturi Contributor
Background on Myanmar Myanmar itself is in Southeast Asia and neighbors Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, and Thailand. It is, per the BBC, a diverse nation of 54…
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