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Global News

Added on: 03/04/2023

Mob attacks two Tunis shelter for LGBTQ people from sub-Saharan Africa

03/03/2023

A group of men attacked a shelter for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa in Ariana, a northern suburb of Tunis during the night of…

Global News

Added on: 02/22/2023

How nations in Middle East and North Africa target LGBT citizens online

02/21/2023

Government officials across the Middle East and North Africa region are targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people based on their online activity on social media,…

Global News

Added on: 02/16/2023

“This Is Why We Became Activists”

02/15/2023

In June 2021, Amani’s girlfriend ended their relationship. Amani told Human Rights Watch that for months prior to the breakup, her girlfriend’s parents had been “refusing to…

Global News

Added on: 12/24/2022

Tunisia: Activists seek to block anti-gay sportscaster from visiting Europe

12/23/2022

The LGBTQ rights group ADHEOS is seeking to block a sportscaster and former Tunisian official from traveling in Europe because of his violently homophobic comments on a…

Global News

Added on: 12/07/2022

Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

12/6/2022

On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in…

Global News

Added on: 07/23/2022

Police arrest leading gay activist in crackdown on Tunisia rally

7/22/22

Police have arrested a leading gay rights campaigner in a violent pushback against young people during a rally against the upcoming referendum on the Tunisian president’s newly…

Global News

Added on: 07/01/2022

Challenging Tunisian society’s homophobia through theatre

06/30/2022

For the LGBTQI+ community in North Africa and the Middle East, Pride Month is bittersweet. While celebrating their love and existence within safe and private spaces, members of…

Global News

Added on: 05/26/2022

Tunisia’s first LGBTQ play lifts curtain on hidden violence

05/25/2022

The first queer play to be staged in Tunisia has premiered in the capital, Tunis. Director Essia Jaibi’s latest work aims to challenge conservative attitudes in a country…

Global News

Added on: 04/09/2022

Tough Territory for Transgender People in the Middle East and North Africa

4/8/22

Transgender people, whose assigned gender at birth does not match their gender identity, face a grim reality in much of the Middle East and North Africa region,…

Global News

Added on: 03/07/2022

Sentenced for a selfie: Middle East police target LGBTQ+ phones

03/06/2022

BEIRUT/LOS ANGELES, March 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Before Omar leaves home in the morning, he carefully uninstalls the apps on his phone one by one –…

Global News

Added on: 01/16/2022

Tunisian LGBT activists fight back after alleged police assault

1/15/22

On October 21, 2021, prominent LGBTQ activist Badr Baabou was brutally assaulted in downtown Tunis by two men, one wearing a police uniform, who left him bruised…

Global News

Added on: 12/29/2021

Court case seeks to legalize homosexuality in Tunisia

12/28/2021

A group of lawyers, human rights activists and the LGBT community filed an appeal on Thursday, December 16, to overturn two convictions for homosexuality, in a country…

Global News

Added on: 12/12/2021

Tunisia: LGBT activist’s assault seen as a pattern by police

12/11/21

A prominent LGBTQ activist in Tunisia has reported that two men, one dressed in police uniform, threw him to the ground, beat and kicked him during an…

Global News

Added on: 12/11/2021

LGBTQ Community in Tunisia Forcibly Outed to Public, Face Police Brutality: Activists

12/10/21

Tunisian LGBTQ activists are demanding change after a series of brutal attacks and harassment campaigns. The Associated Press interviewed activists in the North African country, including Tunisian…

Global News

Added on: 12/10/2021

Tunisia: LGBT activist’s assault by police seen as a pattern

12/09/2021

TUNIS, Tunisia — A prominent LGBTQ activist in Tunisia has reported that two men, one dressed in police uniform, threw him to the ground, beat and kicked…

Global News

Added on: 10/29/2021

Tunisia: Attack on Director of LGBT Group

10/28/2021

Two police officers apparently brutally attacked the director of a Tunis-based LGBT rights group on October 21, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack on Badr…

World Voices

Added on: 08/08/2021

Mohamed Ali (Dali) Aguerbi – Documentarian, Malta

Savita Sukul

Alturi Contributor

Dali came to Malta by accident. He is originally from Tunisia where homosexuality is criminalized by three years of imprisonment since French colonialism in 1913. He came…

World Voices

Added on: 04/17/2021

Ali Bousselmi — Mawjoudin, Tunisia

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved in activism? I think after the revolution, a lot of associations were founded, and when I saw my friends take part in…

Global News

Added on: 04/15/2021

Tunisian LGBT rights group provides vital services during pandemic

04/14/2021

The Tunisian LGBT rights group Mawjoudin (Arabic for “We Exist”) has been providing vital services to vulnerable community members through the COVID-19 pandemic, according to its just-released…

Global News

Added on: 03/19/2021

After international protest, Tunisian court releases LGBT rights activist

03/18/2021

Following an international protest, a Tunisia court ordered the release Wednesday of Rania Amdouni, the women’s rights defender and LGBTI activist who had been jailed for shouting…

Global News

Added on: 03/10/2021

Tunisia: Harassment, Arbitrary Detention of LGBT Rights Activist

03/10/2021

A Tunisian court sentenced a prominent LGBT rights activist on March 4, 2021, to six months in prison and a fine for shouting outside a police station…

Global News

Added on: 03/07/2021

Tunisians protest for LGBT rights activist’s release

3/7/21

Hundreds of Tunisians demanded the release of an activist sentenced to six months in prison for allegedly insulting a police officer. The incident for which 26-year-old LGBT…

Global News

Added on: 02/24/2021

Tunisia: Police Arrest, Use Violence Against LGBTI Activists

02/23/2021

(Beirut) – Tunisian security forces have repeatedly targeted protesters, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) activists at protests, Human Rights Watch said today. The targeting…

Global News

Added on: 12/11/2020

“Kill Them, They Are Sodomites” – Police Violence Against LGBT People in Tunisia

12/10/2020

On October 6, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in Tunisia raised their voices and banners in the street, amid the hundreds of demonstrators who were…

Global News

Added on: 10/08/2020

How the LGBT community rallied against a ‘homophobic’ Tunisian influencer

10/07/2020

During a 23-minute monologue on Instagram, the Tunisian beauty influencer Lady Samara veered off-piste when she said: “I do not respect homosexuality. A homosexual person is an…

Global News

Added on: 08/05/2020

Tunisia: Homosexuality Convictions Upheld

08/04/2020

A Tunisian appeals court on July 28, 2020 upheld the conviction of two men accused of sodomy but reduced their sentence to one year in prison, Human…

Global News

Added on: 05/07/2020

Same-sex marriage is still illegal in Tunisia!

05/06/2020

Thirty-five LGBTQ+ and human rights groups united today to dispel the false belief, spread by flawed news articles, that Tunisia has accepted same-sex marriage. The 35 organizations…

Global News

Added on: 05/05/2020

False marriage claims in Tunisia have led to anti-LGBT+ attacks 04 MAY 2020

05/04/2020

Reports of Tunisia becoming the first Arab country to recognise a same-sex marriage have put LGBT+ people in danger. Tunisian LGBT+ organization Mawjoudin – We Exist –…

Global News

Added on: 03/19/2020

‘It’s not safe for them’: Coronavirus lockdowns putting LGBT+ people at risk across Middle East

03/18/2020

Coronavirus-induced isolation and lockdowns are putting LGBT+ people in the Middle East at risk, campaigners have warned. Many individuals are – or, due to money worries, fear…

Global News

Added on: 02/01/2020

Appeal to Tunisia: End prosecution of LGBT activist who offended Muslims

01/31/2020

The human rights group Human Rights Watch is urging Tunisian authorities to drop their lawsuit against LGBT rights activist Mounir Baatour, who wrote a Facebook post last…