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May 5, 2020 News Release

US: State Department Should Affirm Rights for All

Unalienable Rights Panel Shouldn’t Rewrite International Law

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Criminalization Makes a Bad Situation Worse

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End Stigmatization of LGBT People, Investigation of Bar Associations

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April 27, 2020 News Release

Morocco: Online Attacks Over Same-Sex Relations

Criminalization Fuels Harassment; Protect LGBT People from Discrimination, Abuse

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April 23, 2020 Letter

Letter to the President of Panama calling for the protection of transgender people during the quarantine

April 23, 2020 News Release

Panama: Set Transgender-Sensitive Quarantine Guidelines

Gender-Based Quarantine Leading to Arbitrary Arrests, Fines

Police officers are pictured during the curfew as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Panama City, Panama, March 31, 2020.
April 22, 2020 News Release

Egypt: Covid-19 Threatens Treatment for HIV Patients

Ensure Safe Access to Uninterrupted Care

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April 16, 2020 Commentary

In Lebanon's Covid-19, Aid the Vulnerable, Including LGBT People

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Keeping a Law on the Books Just to Demonize a Minority is Clearly Wrong

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April 14, 2020 News Release

Poland: Reject New Curbs on Abortion, Sex Ed

Don’t Manipulate Pandemic to Endanger Women, Adolescents

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April 11, 2020 Commentary

Justice for LGBT Salvadorans Requires Reckoning with Hate

No Hate Crime Conviction Despite Five Years of LGBT Murders Since Legislative Reform

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April 8, 2020 Dispatches

Philippines Uses Humiliation as COVID Curfew Punishment

LGBT People Ordered to Dance and Kiss on Video

Screenshots of videos showing humiliation of LGBT people amid coronavirus curfew in Pandacaqui, Pampanga province, Philippines, April 5, 2020.
April 3, 2020 Dispatches

Hungary Seeks to Ban Legal Gender Recognition for Transgender People

Parliament Should Reject, EU Institutions Should Act

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center right, speaks during a plenary session in the House of Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, March 23, 2020.
April 3, 2020 Dispatches

Uganda LGBT Shelter Residents Arrested on COVID-19 Pretext

Release 20 Detainees, End Arbitrary Arrests

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April 2, 2020 Dispatches

Panama’s Gender-Based Quarantine Ensnares Trans Woman

Trans-Sensitive Police Protocol Needed to Prevent Harassment

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