Transgender people and others who don’t conform to social expectations about gender face discrimination and abuse in Sri Lanka, including arbitrary detention, mistreatment, and discrimination accessing employment, housing, and health care. These abuses take place within a broader legal landscape that fails to recognize the gender identity of transgender people without abusive requirements; makes same-sex relations between consenting adults a criminal offense; and enables a range of abuses against LGBTI people by state officials and private individuals. The Sri Lankan government should protect the rights of transgender people and others who face similar discrimination.
Indonesian government officials made a series of anti-LGBT comments, resulting in proposals of laws which pose a serious threat to the rights and safety of LGBT Indonesians.
Countries around the world should ban the practice of conducting forced anal examinations on men and transgender women accused of consensual same-sex conduct.
Dozens of transgender women, including asylum seekers, who are locked up in jails or prison-like immigration detention centers across the United States, have been subjected to sexual assault and ill-treatment, while others are held in indefinite solitary confinement.
Gambia’s government commits serious human rights violations against perceived critics and political opponents, perpetuating a climate of fear and repression.
Russian authorities have failed in their obligation to prevent and prosecute homophobic violence. Growing numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have been attacked and harassed across Russia in the lead-up and aftermath of the adoption of the federal anti-LGBT “propaganda” law in June 2013. The law effectively legalized discrimination against LGBT people and cast them as second-class citizens.
