Category: World – LGBTQ Rights
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Indonesia: Fresh Wave of Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric, Arrests
Indonesian officials should uphold the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) people in the face of renewed anti-LGBTQ statements and discriminatory policy proposals, Human Rights Watch said yesterday in a letter to Governor Ridwan Kamil of West Java province.
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Malawi: Arrests, Violence against LGBTQ People
Malawi’s laws prohibiting consensual same-sex relations foster a climate of fear and fuel violence and discrimination, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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New report: Progress on LGBTQ issues in the Middle East and North Africa
Today, OutRight Action International, a LGBTIQ human rights organisation, releases the report, Activism and Resilience: LGBTQ Progress in the Arabic-speaking States in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
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Tokyo: New Law Bars LGBTQ Discrimination
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has passed a bill that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, Human Rights Watch said today.
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LGBTQ Conference in Lebanon Threatened by Security Forces
On the 29th of September Lebanese security forces from the General Security Directorate shut down a regional gender rights conference in Beirut, Lebanon.
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#ChechnyaOneYearOn : MEPs ask Commission about torture of (perceived) LGBTQ people in Chechnya
In April 2017, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that at least 100 men were detained in unofficial prisons on suspicion of being LGBTQ in Chechnya, Russia, and suffered severe torture and humiliation.