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Lifelong campaigner for human rights Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu opposed barbaric anti-LGBT+ laws with ‘same passion as apartheid’

Lily Wakefield - December 27, 2021

Saint Lucia

Island nations of Saint Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis yet again refuse to legalise gay sex

Emma Powys Maurice - July 9, 2021

Ahmed Shaheed United Nations conversion therapy

UN pleads with Tory government to ban ‘chilling’ conversion therapy – with no exceptions

Patrick Kelleher - April 15, 2021

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ILGA-World homosexuality United Nations

The dangerous and oppressive countries where same-sex love is still a crime, mapped

Patrick Kelleher - December 16, 2020

Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg

Joe Biden considering Pete Buttigieg for high-profile Chinese ambassador post after passing on him for top UN role

Josh Milton - December 9, 2020

Pride parade in Toronto, Canada

Canada’s pioneering conversion therapy ban bill could have a major impact on LGBT+ rights around the world

Nick Duffy - October 21, 2020

United Nations: Trans people are still criminalised in 13 member states

Trans people are still criminalised in 13 United Nation member states with rights in every corner of the world ‘regressing’

Josh Milton - September 30, 2020

Christopher Karas Canada

Gay man files human rights complaint with the United Nations over Canada’s discriminatory blood donation ban for queer men

Patrick Kelleher - August 7, 2020

27-year-old transgender asylum seeker brutally murdered in Guatemala

Trans asylum seeker who fled violent gang persecution in El Salvador brutally murdered in Guatemala. She was 27

Vic Parsons - August 7, 2020

Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN's independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Forced conversion therapy should be considered a form of torture, says UN violence expert

Nick Duffy - July 8, 2020

United Nations: Trans people are still criminalised in 13 member states

UN condemns countries that are using coronavirus crisis to persecute and strip away the rights of LGBT+ people

Emma Powys Maurice - April 23, 2020

Egypt LGBT arrests

Egyptian government refuses to acknowledge existence of LGBT people, even as it continues to arrest them

Patrick Kelleher - March 27, 2020

Iraq

Homophobic Iraqi cleric calls on British and US ambassadors to be expelled for supporting LGBT+ rights

Emma Powys Maurice - March 12, 2020

Aisha Mughal trans Pakistan United Nations

Trans woman makes history representing Pakistan at United Nations

Patrick Kelleher - February 17, 2020

intersex

California just failed to pass a ban on unnecessary genital surgeries for intersex babies

Emma Powys Maurice - January 17, 2020

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