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April 16, 2018 Commentary

After a Grim Year for LGBT Rights, the Way Forward

Participants hold rainbow flags at LGBT Pride Parade in Taipei, Taiwan on October 28, 2017.
April 16, 2018 Commentary

Commonwealth Should Address LGBT Rights

Two Thirds of Member States Criminalize Consensual Same-Sex Acts

An unknown man on the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados.
April 16, 2018 News Release

‘No Longer Alone’: LGBT Voices from the Middle East, North Africa

Videos, Report Highlight Issues of Identity, Activism

No Longer Alone
April 13, 2018 News Release

Trinidad and Tobago: Court Overturns Same-Sex Intimacy Ban

Victory for LGBT Rights Activists

Jason Jones, activist of the LGBT community celebrates with other activist court judgment outside the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 12, 2018.
April 5, 2018 Dispatches

No Justice for Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Purge Victims

One Year Later, Victims Still Waiting for Effective Investigation

Russian LGBT Network Director Igor Kochetkov (left) and Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina (right) at a press conference at the Rosbalt press center in Moscow, Russia on April 3, 2018.
April 4, 2018 Dispatches

Marriage Equality, Transgender Rights Might be on the Horizon in Costa Rica

Alvarado Quesada Wins Presidential Elections

Supporters of Carlos Alvarado Quesada, presidential candidate of the ruling Citizens' Action Party (PAC), hold up a rainbow LGBT pride flag during the presidential election in San Jose, Costa Rica, April 1, 2018.
April 2, 2018 News Release

Indonesia: Four Arrested for Same-Sex Conduct

Detainees in Aceh at Risk of Public Torture

Two gay men were sentenced to 82 whips by the Shariah Court in Banda Aceh, Indonesia on May 23, 2017. In March 2018, four other people arrested in Aceh for same-sex conduct.
March 28, 2018 Dispatches

Cheap Political Trick in Barbados

Eastern Caribbean LGBT Activists Seek Protection, Not Marriage

An unknown man on the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados.
March 27, 2018 Dispatches

Proposed US Healthcare Changes Would Undermine Patient Rights

Sweeping Religious and Moral Exemptions Put Women, LGBT People at Risk

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar participates in a forum called Generation Next at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2018.
March 27, 2018 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter to US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar

March 23, 2018 Dispatches

She’s Famous, From Barbados, and an LGBT Ally

Eastern Caribbean People Should Know Rihanna Has Spoken Out for LGBT People

Rihanna Drive, Barbados.
March 22, 2018 Letter

Letter to US Senate Opposing Michael Pompeo's Nomination for Secretary of State

Then-Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2018. © 2018 Reuters
March 22, 2018 News Release

US Senate: Reject Pompeo for Secretary of State

Trump Nominee Supported Torture, Demeaned Muslims, Women, LGBT People

March 22, 2018 News Release

Kenya: Court Finds Forced Anal Exams Unconstitutional

Victory for LGBT Rights Activists

"Adam," arrested in Kenya in February 2015 on homosexuality charges and subjected to a forced anal exam, sorts through police documents on his case. © 2015 Zoe Flood
March 21, 2018 News Release

Eastern Caribbean: LGBT People Face Bias, Violence

Repeal Colonial-Era Laws

Jason (pseudonym), a 40-year-old gay man from Barbados.

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