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Dancers in Virginia take part in CWS's 2023 celebration of refugees' contributions. (Daniel Lin photo courtesy of the Daily News-Record)
Refugee aid groups sue to unfreeze Trump’s pause on refugee admissions
Global update: The struggle for LGBTQ rights continues in Asia
Nora Noralla, executive director of the Cairo 52 Legal Research Institute.
Bahrain: Despite trans man’s appeal, Sunni-focused court rejects gender-affirming care
Half the countries competing at Asian Cup have anti-LGBT laws
LGBT Afghans fled from the homphobic brutality of the Taliban, but now are stuck in Pakistan, seeking asylum elsewhere. (Illustration courtesy of HRW / Outright International)
LGBTQ Afghans who fled from the Taliban are stuck in Pakistan
Iran President Ebrahim Raisi (left) shakes hands with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, center-right, at the State House in Entebbe, Uganda on July 12, 2023. (Photo courtesy of VOA)
Iranian President praises anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments in Uganda
2022 in worldwide LGBT rights progress – Part 4: Asia
UN experts seek to save two activists sentenced to death in Iran
Outcry hits Iran for sentencing two LGBTQ rights activists to death
In 5 Middle East nations, gender-affirming health care is illegal
Appeal to organizations: Join our plea to Iran to release LGBTIQ+ activist
Iran executes 2 men for ‘sodomy by force’
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrests lesbian seeking to flee to Turkey
Iranian military outed a gay youth; his family murdered him
Latest tally: Death for gay sex in 5 nations
Iran official charged for cartoon of loving same-sex parents