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Added on: 02/19/2021

Inter-American rights body finds Jamaica violated LGBT rights

02/19/2021

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) found in a landmark decision released Wednesday that the Jamaican government is responsible for violating the human rights of two…

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Added on: 02/18/2021

Jamaica should repeal gay sex ban, says Americas top rights body

02/17/2021

KINGSTON, Feb 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Jamaica should repeal its colonial-era gay sex ban, the top rights body of the Americas said on Wednesday, in a…

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Added on: 02/17/2021

Transgender Woman Is Killed in ‘Vicious and Violent Attack’ in Her Miami Apartment

02/16/2021

An attack that a police detective describes as “very vicious and violent” has authorities searching for the killer of a 45-year-old transgender woman found dead two weeks…

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Added on: 02/17/2021

LGBTQ people now protected under the Fair Housing Act

02/15/2021

For the first time, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are now protected from housing discrimination under federal law. The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced…

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Added on: 02/17/2021

British children in limbo over gender therapy after court ruling

02/15/2021

LONDON, Feb 15 (Openly) – Almost as soon as she could speak, Nina told her parents she was not a boy and she has lived as a…

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Added on: 02/17/2021

Ghana: LGBT+ safe house opens; anti-gay crusader in a rage

02/16/2021

After LGBT+ Rights Ghana held a fundraiser at the new site, anti-gay campaigner Moses Foh-Amoaning called for the police to shut it down, arrest the group’s leaders…

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Added on: 02/17/2021

Pandemic exposes LGBTI rights’ fragilty, report says

02/15/2021

The Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences have highlighted the fragility of the human rights of LGBTI people, according to the annual report by a leading rights NGO,…

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Added on: 02/16/2021

UN Expert Raises Alarm Over Reports Of LGBT Child ‘Torture’ In Iran

02/15/2021

The UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran has expressed concern over reports that the country has subjected lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…

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Added on: 02/15/2021

Cameroon: Police arrest 12 teens on homosexuality charges

02/14/2021

Feb. 11, 2021, will remain unforgettable for 12 boys arrested and taken to the Nkolbikone police station after they were spotted kissing each other near the Grand…

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Added on: 02/15/2021

Flurry of bills aim to set limits on transgender kids – and their doctors

02/14/2021

Sam Edelman felt like a girl for as long as he could remember, his dad said. As Sam’s 18th birthday approached, and after years of researching hormone…

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Added on: 02/14/2021

Joe Biden invited to Nigeria to ‘marry a man as his second wife’ by raging homophobic bishop

2/13/21

The angry tirade comes after Biden vowed to advance the cause of LGBT+ rights around the world, threatening financial sanctions on regimes deemed to have infringed on…

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Added on: 02/13/2021

Iran’s use of electric shocks on LGBT+ children is torture and ‘echoes treatment by the Nazis’

02/12/2021

A United Nations report found the Islamic Republic of Iran imposed electric shock torture on LGBT+ children, among other human rights violations. British LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell…

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Added on: 02/13/2021

Ghana Parliament must decide whether they want to decriminalise LGBT laws

02/12/2021

The Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, says Ghana’s Parliament must make up its mind on whether it wants to decriminalise LGBT laws in the country….

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Added on: 02/11/2021

‘We all know what we’re facing’: divided Myanmar unites against coup

02/10/2021

The Myanmar military took power last week on the promise of “restoring eternal peace” to a country riven by seven decades of ethnic conflict. Since the takeover…

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Added on: 02/11/2021

Welcome back to Chechnya: How Ramzan Kadyrov’s men tracked down and imprisoned LGBT evacuees

02/10/2021

For 48 hours, a panicked phone call and ransacked apartment were the only clues; a sign that something was desperately wrong. David Isteyev, the Russian LGBT Network…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Thailand Is Not the LGBTQ Paradise We Think It Is

02/08/2021

Thailand is consistently hailed as one of the most LGBTQ-friendly countries in the world. It holds international transgender beauty pageants, offers quality gender reassignment surgery, and was…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Putrajaya says opposing US president Biden’s global pro-LGBT initiative

02/08/2021

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 — Putrajaya yesterday said it is opposing a call by newly-minted US President Joe Biden’s for the superpower’s agencies to protect the rights…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Gay asylum seeker flees persecution in Morocco, only to endure more homophobia when arriving in the UK

02/08/2021

He previously told ITV: “It was always, ‘hide yourself, hide yourself’, and don’t show your colours. “If you show your colours it means that you are going…

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Added on: 02/09/2021

Chechnya opens terror inquiry into gay men forcibly returned from Moscow

02/08/2021

Chechnya has opened a terrorism investigation into two gay men who fled the region last year but were arrested near Moscow last week and forcibly returned. The…

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Added on: 02/08/2021

Turkey jails four pending trial over university protests: prosecutor

02/07/2021

Four people were formally arrested as part of an investigation into protests against President Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a rector at one of the country’s top universities,…

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Added on: 02/07/2021

Biden signs foreign policy memo putting U.S. at ‘forefront’ of global LGBTQ rights

2/5/21

President Joe Biden has issued a historic memorandum committing the United States to promoting LGBTQ rights on the international stage. Released to the public Thursday evening, the…

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Added on: 02/07/2021

G25 opposes proposal to introduce heavier punishments for LGBT community

2/7/21

G25 Malaysia joins the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) and other civil society groups in opposing the proposal by the deputy minister (religious affairs) in the…

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Added on: 02/07/2021

Russian Rights Group Warns That Detained Gay Men Face ‘Mortal Danger’ In Chechnya

2/6/21

The Russian LGBT Network has warned that two young gay men from Chechnya who were seized in Nizhny Novgorod and driven by car back to the North…

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Added on: 02/06/2021

LGBT asylum seekers: Call for dedicated housing in Wales

2/5/21

Abderrahim El Habachi, 28, said he felt “unsafe” living alongside some men from North Africa and the Middle East after he arrived in Cardiff in 2017. He…

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Added on: 02/05/2021

Russia Returns Escaped Gay Men to Chechen Police – NGO

02/05/2021

Russian police have allegedly detained two gay men who escaped from the republic of Chechnya and handed them over to authorities in their home region, the Russian…

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Added on: 02/04/2021

What’s next for these transgender asylum seekers stranded in Mexico?

02/03/2021

Kataleya Nativi Baca, 29, can see the yellow grasslands of San Ysidro, California, from the crests of Tijuana’s hills. The palm trees swaying less than a mile…

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Added on: 02/02/2021

Singapore’s gay sex ban and the LGBTQ+ movement: The story so far

02/01/2021

It has been an important week for LGBTQ+ activists in Singapore, both in the courtroom and on the streets. While the affluent country has seen some moves…

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Added on: 02/02/2021

Uganda: Electoral defeat for 2 notoriously anti-gay officials

02/01/2021

The two defeated politicians are Haji Abdul Kiyimba, the former Mayor of Nsangi Town Council in Wakiso District in central Uganda, and the Rev. Simon Lokodo, the…

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Added on: 02/02/2021

Erdogan hits out at ‘LGBT youth’ as police break up fresh protest

02/01/2021

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday lashed out at Turkey’s LGBT movement, accusing it of “vandalism” following an outbreak of student protests. Four people were arrested over…

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Added on: 02/01/2021

Three lives, one message: Stop killing Mexico’s transgender women

01/31/2021

Mexico is the second most dangerous country in the world to be transgender, according to human rights groups. Only Brazil has higher rates of transphobia and violence…