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March 21, 2018

Eastern Caribbean: LGBT People Face Bias, Violence

Discriminatory laws in Eastern Caribbean countries make LGBT people targets for discrimination, violence and abuse.

LGBT Rights

March 21, 2018 News Release

Eastern Caribbean: LGBT People Face Bias, Violence
Americas

A presidential election is being held tomorrow in which one of the leading candidates stands accused of genocide. Efrain Rios Montt, a retired general, is seeking the presidency of Guatemala. In the early 1980s he headed a military regime that carried out hundreds of massacres of unarmed civilians and -- according to a U.N.-sponsored truth commission -- "acts of genocide."

November 7, 2003 Commentary

Party To Mass Murder?

Daniel Wilkinson
Managing Director, Americas Division

Published In: The Washington Post

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March 21, 2018

“I Have to Leave to Be Me”

Discriminatory Laws against LGBT People in the Eastern Caribbean

Daily Brief

April 18, 2019

Torture persists in Mosul jail; Sudan should transfer Al-Bashir and other Sudanese fugitives to the International Criminal Court; Myanmar satire should not be a crime; if Brunei's stoning law is enforced, sanction the sultan; Georgia must protect fleeing Saudi sisters; Pakistan cares about the rights of all Muslims - except those oppressed by China; the European Parliament calls for targeted sanctions over Xinjiang crackdown; and two human rights defenders amongst the 100 most influential people of 2019.

Eastern Caribbean: LGBT People Face Bias, Violence

Eastern Caribbean: LGBT People Face Bias, Violence

Party To Mass Murder?

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“I Have to Leave to Be Me”

Paradise Lost