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USAID used this photo of Pride celebrations in El Salvador to highlight the agency's Rights and Dignity project, which aimed to strengthen human rights and create "a more tolerant, just, and equitable El Salvador, where Salvadorans believe they can have a better life without migrating."
As Trump blocks funds for LGBTQ rights abroad, fear and confusion spread
Girls in Nairobi attend a Pepfar-sponsored program about AIDS. (Ben Curtis photo courtesy of AP / NPR)
UPDATE: Trump officials balk at cutting anti-AIDS drugs and endangering millions
Pepfar clients visit anti-AIDS clinic for treatment. (Photo courtesy of Pepfar)
Trump officials shut down Pepfar’s anti-AIDS operations, endangering millions
A doctor at Family Health Options Kenya serves a patient. Eight years ago, the organization decided to continued its counseling services even though that meant it would lose U.S. aid and force it to cut its health-care services in half. (Photo courtesy of The Star)
Trump’s ‘gag order’ again bars doctors from giving pregnant patients the facts
Anti-gay campaigner Moses Foh-Amoaning was expelled from the Association of African Albinos in 2021 for fomenting hatred. (Photo courtesy of MyJoyOnline.com)
Trump presidency encourages backer of Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ bill
Winnie Byanyima, a Ugandan national and the global executive director of UNAIDS, is urging the United States to continue its support of Pepfar's fight against HIV / AIDS. (Photo courtesy of Eagle News)
U.N. pleads with Trump to save global anti-AIDS program; U.S. agency is silenced
U.S. President Donald Trump displays a newly signed executive order on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
Trump’s reactionary orders harm trans and intersex people worldwide, says ILGA World
U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)
HIV and LGBTQ rights activists reeling from Trump’s barrage of executive orders
Graphic from the 2020 report “Hate Speech Spreads Like Wildfire” on hate speech in social media in the Middle East and North Africa.
Facebook opens the door to more anti-LGBTQ lies and hate speech
2024 LGBTQ Rights Global Progress – Latin America and Caribbean
Revealing the background of the Erasing 76 Crimes news site and its editor
LGBTQ rights defender in Ghana wins U.S. award on Human Rights Day
This site's activist journalists have laid the groundwork for Project Not Alone, which frees imprisoned victims of African homophobia. This illustration shows two gay men waiting for donations that will pay their fines and set them free.
Giving Tuesday: If you support LGBTQ rights, support LGBTQ rights journalism
LGBTQ rights supporter Duma Boko is in line to become Botswana's next president. (Johannes Simon photo courtesy of Getty /News24.com)
If you support LGBTQ rights, please support our LGBTQ rights journalism
Word cloud showing the names of the 46 prisoners for whom Project Not Alone has won early release.
Readers’ donations have freed a total of 46 victims of African homophobia
On Martinique, an LGBT association campaigns in the midst of a social crisis