Human Rights Watch

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
Indonesian police raid homes of 'suspected lesbians'
Many bash Russia for Chechen abuses; few help gay victims
Report: Russia's anti-'gay propaganda' law hurts kids
Public caning of a gay couple -- a sharia court's punishment for their homosexual activity -- was carried out May 23 outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia.
'Now Indonesia Wants to Hide Its Floggings'
Tanzania, stop threatening backers of pregnant girls, LGBT people
After misstep, Malaysian officials learn about LGBT issues
Indonesian police escort several of the 141 people arrested in the May 22 raid. (Photo courtesy of Inquirer News)
Commentary: Indonesian police fuel anti-LGBT hysteria
Reine Alapini Gansou at African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Progress toward defending sexual minorities in Africa
LGBT sex worker on Tanzania crackdown: I'm afraid