Updated Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Review of the Combined State Party Report for Indonesia - 80th Session, September 2021
Ghana: LGBT Activists Face Hardships After Detention
Extreme Anti-LGBT Bill Stokes Hostility
![Area 51 Police Station, Ho, Ghana: A.G, a lesbian, was held here for 22 days from May 20, 2021 with four other lesbians after being arbitrarily arrested at a human rights workshop in Ho, Volta region. © 2021 Wendy Isaack/Human Rights Watch, 15 July 2021](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/09/202109lgbt_ghana_jail.jpg?h=3420ed83&itok=QsSUgsFM)
South Korea: LGBT Students Face Bullying, Discrimination
Isolation and Lack of Support Put Young People at Risk
Once Bullied, LGBT South Koreans Advocate for Inclusion
Former Students Share Their Stories to Press for Change
![G Lee, an LGBT person in South Korea © 2021 Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/09/202109Asia_lgbt_SouthKorea_G_Lee_main.jpg?h=c74750f6&itok=5Y1qKiLo)
Letter to the Indian Foreign Minister on Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan
Letter to the Indian Foreign Minister on Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan
Protest Demands End to Harmful Surgeries on Intersex Children
Hospital Should Halt Medically Unnecessary Surgeries
![Demonstrators gather for an #EndIntersexSurgery protest outside Weill-Cornell hospital in New York City in August 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/09/202108us_intersex_surgery.jpg?h=45f12da3&itok=vt71IlU-)
No End to Chechnya’s Violent Anti-Gay Campaign
Kidnapping, Interrogation Exposes Brutal Intent
![Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain on June 2, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/08/202108chechnya_lgbt_rights_russia.jpg?h=c8e955ed&itok=qCERhLTZ)
Political Homophobia Ramps Up
![Demonstrators wrapped in LGBT and European Union flags are seen on August 30, 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. © 2020 Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via AP](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/08/202108lgbt_eu_pride.jpg?h=f26cc6a9&itok=6UX9_lvM)
Video Captures Vicious Transphobic Attack in Cameroon
Repeal Anti-Homosexuality Law, Protect LGBT People
![Patricia and Shakiro, two transgender women who were convicted in May of "attempted homosexuality," record a video after their release to thank those who supported them in Douala, Cameroon, July 16, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/08/202108cameroon_lgbt_rights_trans.jpg?h=6eb229a4&itok=JqpgRc9q)
Homophobic Ghanaian ‘Family Values’ Bill is Odious and Beggars Belief
Russia, Nigeria, Uganda and Hungary have all passed odious laws in recent years that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Ghana’s proposed legislation takes bad parts from all of these and adds some.
![A young lesbian woman at an LGBT community center in Accra, Ghana.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201801africa_ghana_lgbt_main.jpg?itok=-GDbeMw_)
Uzbekistan: Forced Anal Testing in Homosexuality Prosecutions
President Should Immediately Prohibit Torturous Exams
![Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev speaking in Qingdao, China on June 9, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko.”](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/08/202108lgbt_Uzbeki_President.jpg?h=6f98d453&itok=GYiwu-0O)
"Clean the Streets of Faggots"
Digital Targeting of LGBT People by Middle East/North Africa Governments
![Sarah Hegazy, Egyptian LGBTQ activist, photographed by a friend who wished to remain anonymous, at a Mashrou’ Leila concert in Cairo in 2017 © 2020 anonymous.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/08/202108lgbt_sarah_hegazy_0.jpg?h=93582055&itok=UQTTUF4a)
The Trouble With the ‘LGBT Community’
![LGBT activists in Beirut, Lebanon shout slogans and hold up a rainbow flag as they march to demand equal rights in a country gripped by economic and financial crisis, June 27, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/07/202107lgbt_MENA_Overview.jpg?h=49e8d009&itok=4t-Z7Gh-)