Activist takes case over Trinidad’s homophobic laws to UK’s privy council
Legislation was repealed in 2018 but Caribbean country’s supreme court last week recriminalised the act after appeal The privy council in London will soon be...
Category : LGBTQ+ rights
US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’
USAid cuts to clinics dispensing antiretroviral drugs will be ‘death sentence for mothers and children’, expert warns Sweeping notices of termination of funding have been...
Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa
Police say motive for killing of Hendricks, who ran a mosque for LGBTQ+ Muslims near Cape Town, is unknown Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world’s “first...
Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights Extreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools...
Inquiry into Mexico’s ‘dirty war’ obstructed by military and other agencies, board says
Report details years of abuse in 90s during authoritarian one-party system, but says its inquiries were often stymied An independent commission charged by Mexico’s president...
Transfemicide becomes a crime in a ‘watershed’ moment for Mexico City
Galvanized by the 2016 murder of trans sex worker Paola Buenrostro, activists applaud law as critical for feeling safe When the trans sex worker Paola...
Namibia high court overturns law banning gay sex
Victory for LGBTQ+ campaigners who say ban contributes to discrimination and violence by police Namibia’s high court has overturned a law that criminalised gay sex...
Thailand on the brink of legalising same-sex marriage in historic vote
If the bill passes, Thailand will become just the third territory in Asia – after Taiwan and Nepal – to legalise same-sex marriage Thai lawmakers...
Activists blame Argentina’s government after three gay women killed in arson attack
Four women were set on fire in Buenos Aires in alleged hate crime as demonstrators accuse Milei of promoting intolerance Activists in Argentina have accused...
World Bank and IMF can press Ghana to rethink ‘punitive’ LGBTQ law, charities say
Charities and campaign groups are calling on bodies to say they may stop funding country if legislation comes into effect The World Bank and the...
