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November 19, 2021 Commentary

To Stop Anti-Transgender Violence, Lawmakers Must Address Its Roots

Participants in the National Trans Visibility March in downtown Orlando, Florida on October 9, 2021. © 2021 Sipa USA via AP
November 19, 2021 Statement

Statement by Russian and International Human Rights Organizations in Support of Russian LGBT Rights Activists under Attack

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November 18, 2021 News Release

United States: Transgender People at Risk of Violence

State Laws Stoke Bias; Black Trans Women at Greatest Risk

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November 16, 2021 News Release

New Olympic Framework Backs Inclusion

New Guidelines Push Back on Discriminatory ‘Sex Testing’ Practices

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November 10, 2021 News Release

Papua New Guinea: Address Abuses Raised at UN Review

Countries Criticize Failures on Women’s and LGBT Rights and the Death Penalty

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November 10, 2021 Commentary

A Discriminatory System Killed a Transgender Man in Egypt

By reforming its own system, Egypt can influence positive changes in other countries in the region and lead the way for clear and accessible legal gender recognition mechanisms.

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October 28, 2021 News Release

Tunisia: Attack on Director of LGBT Group

Police Officers Suspected; Investigation Needed

Badr Baabou, director of Damj Association for Justice and Equality, following his assault by suspected police officers in Tunisia. © 2021 Badr Baabou
October 21, 2021 News Release

Germany: Include Trans People in Coalition Agreement

Existing Gender Recognition Procedure Violates Human Rights

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October 18, 2021 Dispatches

Australia Moves Closer to Ending Harmful Intersex Surgeries

Rights Body Urges End to Early ‘Normalizing’ Interventions on Children

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October 18, 2021 Dispatches

India’s Medical Curriculum Gets LGBTI Update

Removing Discriminatory Portrayals a Step Toward Rights-Respecting Care

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October 14, 2021 News Release

Kuwait: Quash Conviction Against Transgender Woman

Free Expression, Privacy Rights Violated

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October 12, 2021 Dispatches

Trans Man Fights Japan’s Sterilization Requirement

Revise Regressive Law Compelling Irreversible Surgery

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October 6, 2021 Commentary

Hungary’s Path Puts Everyone’s Rights in Danger

The ostensible assault on LGBT+ rights in Hungary, Poland and Russia has a very big target—anyone who signs up to universal norms.

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September 27, 2021 Report

Rwanda: Round Ups-Linked to Commonwealth Meeting

Detention, Ill-Treatment of Poor, Gay, and Transgender People

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left), then Foreign Secretary, and Paul Kagame (right), President of Rwanda, meet during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, April 17, 2018.
September 27, 2021 Dispatches

Kenya Censors Another Gay-Themed Film

Struggle for LGBT People’s Rights Will Not Be Silenced

“I Am Samuel” documentary, 2020

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