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April 16, 2020 Commentary

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

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April 14, 2020 Commentary

Gay Sex Still a Crime in Singapore Thanks to Dubious Legal Rulings

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

A transgender woman shows a photograph of Camila Díaz, whom she met while migrating to the US, where they both turned themselves in to immigration authorities. Both women were eventually deported.
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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April 2, 2020 News Release

Uganda: Respect Rights in COVID-19 Response

Ensure Security Forces Refrain From Violence, Abuse

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March 25, 2020 Dispatches

Pakistan Official Supports Transgender Community Amid COVID-19

Societal Discrimination Compounds Health Risks

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March 20, 2020 Dispatches

Egypt’s Denial of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Ignoring LGBT Rights Endangers People in Time of COVID-19

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March 13, 2020 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter Re: House Bill 303 and Health Care for Transgender and Intersex Children

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March 11, 2020 Dispatches

Murder Trial for El Salvador Transgender Woman to Proceed

Deported from the US to Her Death

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March 10, 2020 Statement

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Concerning Vietnam

87th Pre-Sessional, 2020

March 7, 2020 Commentary

Midwest Has Shown It’s Ready for Transgender Rights

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