Protection and Safety

Global News

Added on: 12/13/2021
12/12/2021
The 6G Iranian and Lesbian and Transgender Network reported Tuesday on its website that an Iranian lesbian named Sarah was arrested in the province of West Azerbaijan while…

Global News

Added on: 12/12/2021
A prominent LGBTQ activist in Tunisia has reported that two men, one dressed in police uniform, threw him to the ground, beat and kicked him during an…

Global News

Added on: 12/11/2021
12/10/21
Tunisian LGBTQ activists are demanding change after a series of brutal attacks and harassment campaigns. The Associated Press interviewed activists in the North African country, including Tunisian…

Global News

Added on: 12/11/2021
12/10/2021
Observing Human Rights Day every year on December 10 may pass people by without a moment’s thought — another unnecessary day which no one is aware of…

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Added on: 12/10/2021
12/09/2021
TUNIS, Tunisia — A prominent LGBTQ activist in Tunisia has reported that two men, one dressed in police uniform, threw him to the ground, beat and kicked…

Global News

Added on: 12/05/2021
12/5/21
The LGBT+ community in Botswana, and indeed around the world, breathed a huge sigh of relief on Monday (29 November) after the country’s Court of Appeal upheld…

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Added on: 12/05/2021
Lewis Hamilton has said he is not comfortable competing in Saudi Arabia given its repressive laws regarding the LGBTQ+ community. Speaking before this weekend’s grand prix in…

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Added on: 12/04/2021
Cameroon says lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people are increasingly becoming victims of violence and brutality. The central African state’s government made the comment this week…

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Added on: 12/03/2021
(Bloomberg) — When it comes to cracking down on the LGBTQ community, not much separates Ghana’s two main political parties. A lawmaker from the ruling party has…

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Added on: 12/01/2021
The chief executive of Qatar 2022 has attempted to assure football fans from the LGBT community they will be welcomed at next year’s World Cup in the…

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Added on: 11/30/2021
11/30/2021
Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, a decision hailed by gay community as establishing the southern African country as…

World Voices

Added on: 11/30/2021
Phillip Baumgart
Alturi Contributor
How did you initially become involved in activism?  I was passionate about human rights from a young age. Yet, I was primarily focused on child abuse and…

Global News

Added on: 11/29/2021
11/28/2021
Michael Failla doesn’t get much sleep. In the dead of the night, the Seattle resident gets panicked calls and messages from members of the LGBTQ community in…

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Added on: 11/29/2021
YAOUNDÉ — Cameroon says lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people are increasingly becoming victims of violence and brutality. The central African state’s government made the comment this…

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Added on: 11/28/2021
11/28/2021
An elderly gay couple will sell up and leave their Toowoomba home following homophobic abuse. Bruce Gardiner told the Toowoomba Chronicle that he and husband Derek suffered…

Global News

Added on: 11/25/2021
LGBTQ+ Nigerians benefit from the support provided by volunteer counsellors via the Qtalk app, which is supported by this site and by the St. Paul’s Foundation for International…

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Added on: 11/25/2021
11/24/2021
Australian footballer Josh Cavallo, who came out as gay last month, has revealed he would be scared to play at the upcoming World Cup in Qatar because of the…

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Added on: 11/25/2021
(Johannesburg) The South African government has taken important steps but did not provide adequate funding for shelters and other services for gender-based violence survivors during the Covid-19 pandemic….

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Added on: 11/23/2021
11/22/2021
Labour’s Anneliese Dodds has pledged to no longer allow those guilty of anti-LGBT+ hate crimes to “dodge longer sentences”. Dodds, who was appointed shadow secretary of state…

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Added on: 11/23/2021
11/22/2021
A group sexually assaulted, beat, and humiliated an intersex person in Cameroon’s capital of Yaoundé on November 15. The victim suffered bruises all over her body, HRW…

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Added on: 11/22/2021
11/21/2021
DOHA, Nov 21 (Reuters) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino insisted that “all are welcome in Qatar” on Sunday as a digital countdown clock went on display in…

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Added on: 11/22/2021
11/21/2021
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has glaringly pooh-poohed the new anti-gay law that has been presented before parliament awaiting passage into law by saying God loves gays too…

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Added on: 11/21/2021
Joe Biden issued a statement in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, memorializing the dozens of transgender people who were killed this year in America and saying…

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Added on: 11/21/2021
A district court in Perth on Friday sentenced a 26-year-old man to six and a half years imprisonment for his role in two separate incidents of bashing…

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Added on: 11/20/2021
The politicisation of religion in Africa is now well documented. It is a strategy used to maintain the idea that heterosexuality is the only natural and normal…

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Added on: 11/19/2021
We, the undersigned Russian and international human rights organization condemn the escalating attacks against Russian LGBT Network, its leadership and partners. We call on the Russian authorities…

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Added on: 11/19/2021
Nov. 16, 2021 — A crucial hearing in a case challenging the constitutionality of Section 250, brought by Abdool Ridwan Firaas Ah Seek, a 31-year-old human rights…

Global News

Added on: 11/18/2021
In September, thousands of people marched peacefully through the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the city’s now annual LGBT+ pride parade – a victory of sorts given that…

World Voices

Added on: 11/17/2021
Dorian Coleman
Alturi Contributor
“This person stormed in and led a group of ten people without hiding his face or pretending it wasn’t him. This affected many people in society. Despite…

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Added on: 11/17/2021
11/16/2021
Over three special legislative sessions this year, Texas legislators introduced 47 proposed bills that aimed to restrict transgender kids’ access to sports or gender-affirming care, plus three…