Human Rights Watch

‘No Longer Alone’: LGBT voices in Middle East, N. Africa
An LGBT rights activist looks out over a beach and the Caribbean Sea on the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados. (Amy Braunschweiger photo courtesy of Human Rights Watch)
English-speaking Caribbean lags its neighbors on LGBT rights
Tunisian LBGT activists help Bouhdid Belhedi (C), the director of Shams Radio, the first LGBT radio in the Arab region, after a scuffle with police who came to disperse the protest in Tunis on Jan. 27, 2018. (Fethi Belaid photo courtesy of AFP)
Tunisian police block protest of anti-LGBT law
Untung Sangaji (Photo courtesy of GoAceh)
Indonesia under fire for anti-LGBT raids
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
As LGBTI arrests mount, Egypt’s allies remain mute
Accompanied by a line-up of his white male advisers, President Donald Trump signed a "global gag order" that prohibits U.S. funding for many programs affecting the health of LGBT people and millions of women. (AP photo courtesy of The Nation)
Trump’s gag order denies anti-AIDS services to 10,000+
Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister (Photo by Kai Mork via Wikimedia Commons)
Anti-LGBT forces wield 'traditional values' as a weapon
Chechen singer vanishes; victim of anti-gay purge?
Sibongile Ndashe, executive director of ISLA. (Photo courtesy of Flickr)
Tanzania deports 3 anti-AIDS lawyers for 'promoting homosexuality'
Trump 'gag rule' hurts AIDS battle in Kenya, Uganda
The mother of arrested human rights lawyer Sibongile Ndashe protests at the Tanzanian High Commission in South Africa. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)
Protests surge as Tanzania jails anti-HIV lawyers; no charges
Map shows locations of recent anti-LGBT crackdowns -- in Africa, Egypt, Nigeria and Tanzania; at the border of southeastern Europe and western Asia, Chechnya and Azerbaijan; in central Asia, Tajikistan; and in Asia/Oceania, Indonesia.
7 anti-LGBT purges: We can stop them?
Sibongile Ndashe, executive director of ISLA. (Photo courtesy of Flickr)
Tanzania cries 'homosexuality' to block health-care lawsuit
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov (Photo courtesy of ABC News)
Chechnya’s long arm of retaliation against gay men
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
Anti-LGBT arrests: 50+ groups blast Egypt repression
United Arab Emirates
Emirates, stop arresting people for their appearance