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May 1, 2018 Dispatches

Calling on California To Respect Intersex Children

Surgeons’ Opposition to Senate Resolution Exposes Persistent Stigmatization

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April 30, 2018 Dispatches

Anti-LGBT Bills in US States Could Derail Adoptions

Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma Considering Discriminatory Child Welfare Bills

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April 30, 2018 Commentary

Indonesia Won’t End Floggings, but Rather Hide Them

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April 18, 2018 Dispatches

Theresa May ‘Deeply Regrets’ Colonial Anti-LGBT Laws

Support States and Organizations Working for LGBT Rights in the Commonwealth

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May hosts a meeting with leaders and representatives of Caribbean countries, at 10 Downing Street in London April 17, 2018.
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.

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