Openly gay, lesbian and transgender people face persecution across the Arab world. The exception may be in Lebanon, which has slowly grown more tolerant thanks to the work of activists.
Niko, a 27-year-old gay epileptic from Baku, recalls being beaten, tortured with electric shocks, and raped by four police officers who detained him during a crackdown on homosexuals in Azerbaijan.
“An official culture of violence and intolerance against human diversities has been promoted in the past four decades in Iran, without any resistance against such widespread hatred.”
There are much more pressing issues facing the queer community besides an archaic law that criminalises anal sex, and this is particularly true for women and trans people.
Confusion and anger gripped the Northeast Indian state of Assam on Tuesday, a day after the government released a partial list of registered citizens that included only 19 million of its 32 million people.
I can think of only two times it’s happened to me: I read a news story, or even a series of stories, and thought that it contained such extreme exaggerations that it had to be, essentially, false.
The state's transgender community, which has always been especially vulnerable to discrimination, now additionally face an even graver threat — exclusion from the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
A Malaysian state plans to run a conversion therapy course aimed at transgender women, officials said yesterday, sparking alarm among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in the conservative Muslim-majority country.
BuzzFeed News joined the foreign secretary in Moscow as he met campaigners fighting for basic freedoms. “This is the worst human rights crisis we have seen in Russia’s contemporary history,” one said.
International Commission of Jurists has called on the Government of Nepal to fully implement the court's ruling on the protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people.
