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Location of Burkina Faso in West Africa. (Map courtesy of Google)
Burkina Faso’s LGBTQ community fears ‘witch hunt’
Two Tanzanian men with rainbow flags. (Photo courtesy of LGBT Voice Tanzania)
Report shows impact of anti-LGBT laws on queer Tanzanians
‘No legal prescription’: How trans women in Cameroon access hormones
Ukrainian flag
Ukraine moves closer to enacting a law against anti-LGBTI bias
The world cannot afford to lose UNAIDS
llustration by Rex Opara shows a young man wearing a red HIV awareness ribbon. In the background is shattered glass with a bright white light showing in  the cracks.
Secret health care: A way queer Nigerians get tested for HIV
Flag of Cameroon
Rape of minor reveals how unprepared Cameroon is for male-on-male crime
A scene from last month's Euro-Mediterranean Summer Universities of Homosexualities (UEEH) human rights gathering in Vic-en-Bigorre, France. (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
In Bangladesh, anti-gay intimidation, violence and persecution are escalating
‘This isn’t home for me anymore’: A decade under Nigeria’s anti-gay law
Davis Mac-Iyalla (Photo courtesy of Mamba Online)
W. African human rights activists oppose Burkina Faso’s new anti-gay law
Here’s how a lesbian couple regained their dignity in Cameroon
Clare Byarugaba outside Uganda House in London (Photo courtesy of Diva Magazine and Clare Byarugaba)
Meet the Ugandan LGBTQIA+ activist bringing visibility in a time of crisis
Q Bee Chihera-Meki, programs director of Trans and Intersex Rising Zimbabwe (Photo courtesy of IAS)
Zimbabwean government backs plan to protect rights of intersex people
Two students murdered at Nigerian boarding school for being gay
Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Bangladesh university students tortured, expelled over alleged sexuality
This image was used on the scammers’ website. An Xtra investigation determined it is a photo of a real event that was altered to include the name and logo of a fake charity. (Photo courtesy of Xtra)
Scamsters prey on LGBTQ+ activists from the Global South, inviting them to fake conferences in Canada