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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

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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

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Map of the 65 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them. 
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After their release, Yane and Hage pose for photos but hide their faces in order to avoid anti-lesbian violence. (Photo by Steeves Winner)
Readers’ donations set free two imprisoned lesbians in Cameroon

Africa

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
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Caribbean

U.S. President Donald Trump displays a newly signed executive order on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)

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On Martinique, an LGBT association campaigns in the midst of a social crisis

Europe

Andrei Kotov in custody in Moscow (Photo courtesy of X @Mediazzzona via The Advocate)
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U.S. President Donald Trump displays a newly signed executive order on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
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Hungary's homophobic Prime Minister Viktor Orban: losing support? ( Elekes Andor photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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Map of LGBT Rights in Oceania — BLUE: Same-sex marriage legal and sexual orientation/gender identity discrimination prohibited; PURPLE: Foreign same-sex marriages recognized, no discrimination protections;GREEN: Sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; YELLOW: Sodomy illegal; YELLOW with GREEN outline: Sodomy illegal, but some sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; RED: Constitution bans same-sex marriage, but homosexuality is legal, no discrimination protections; GREY: Sodomy legal, same-sex marriage not permitted, no discrimination protections
2024 LGBTQ rights global update: Progress and reversals in Oceania and Australia

Asia

Outreach group provides TB testing and care for Pakistan’s trans community
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
Despite lack of evidence, Bangladesh university ousts two alleged lesbians

Middle East/North Africa

Website tracks legal rights for trans people in Middle East and North Africa
Morocco flag and rainbow flag
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Supporters of Iraqi militai leader Muqtada al-Sadr burn an LGBT flag in Baghdad's Tahrir square in 2022. (Photo courtesy of Facebook via Middle East Eye)
New Iraqi law calls for prison for same-sex love, gender changes

Americas

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

Under a cloud of uncertainty, Biden era of support for LGBTQ communities ends. Fear and…

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

Oceania

Map of LGBT Rights in Oceania — BLUE: Same-sex marriage legal and sexual orientation/gender identity discrimination prohibited; PURPLE: Foreign same-sex marriages recognized, no discrimination protections;GREEN: Sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; YELLOW: Sodomy illegal; YELLOW with GREEN outline: Sodomy illegal, but some sexual orientation discrimination prohibited; RED: Constitution bans same-sex marriage, but homosexuality is legal, no discrimination protections; GREY: Sodomy legal, same-sex marriage not permitted, no discrimination protections

2024 LGBTQ rights global update: Progress and reversals in Oceania and Australia

In a tradition that's unique to Vanuatu, women in the South Pacific island nation make music in the water. (Photo courtesy of RitmosGlobales.com)

Anti-gay moves in South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu

Tonga scene

Anti-gay lawyers seek to oust Tonga’s openly gay chief justice