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Byline: Ilaria Allegrozzi Senior Central Africa Researcher Repeal Anti-Homosexuality Law, Protect LGBT People A brutal attack on two transgender women in Cameroon occurred just weeks after a court ordered the [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: It is disappointing to observe the Saint Kitts and Nevis government's refusal, once again, to accept the [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: We regret that the government of Saint Lucia has, once again, refused to accept the recommendations to [...]

Release Trans Women, End Anti-LGBT Persecution On May 11, a Cameroonian court sentenced two transgender women to five years in prison and fines of 200,000 CFA (USD $370) under a [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: On May 11, a Cameroonian court sentenced two transgender women to five years in prison and fines [...]

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States ('SCOTUS') decided in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia that the protections of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act ('Title VII') [...]

(JURIST) - Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Monday signed amendments to SB 196, repealing language that barred 'advocacy of homosexuality' in Utah public schools. The bill was amended to bar [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: In a major victory for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students, Utah has repealed its 'no [...]

2018 AUG 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Imaging Law Weekly -- Investigators publish new report on Neurology - Cerebral Cortex Research. According to news [...]

Byline: Rufus S. Berry II, MBA Nov 30, 2016 (Liberian Observer/All Africa Global Media) -- During the recent visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Liberia, President Ellen Johnson [...]

The great tragedy is that as thousands freely take to the streets today celebrating Pride parades around Britain, the position has never been worse for gay men, lesbians, bisexual and [...]

(JURIST) - The Oregon House on Tuesday approved House Bill 2307 [legislative materials], which prohibits health care professionals from providing therapy to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of [...]

O verwhelmed by fear, members of the main gay rights group in the Indonesian town of Banda Aceh started burning piles of documents outside their headquarters in late October, worried [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Human Rights First: Human Rights First today said news that Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has signed into law a bill that [...]

In the Gambia, two international human rights groups are urging President Yahya Jammeh to reject an amendment to the criminal code regarding aggravated homosexuality. The amendment calls to increase the [...]

Dakar, Sep 11, 2014 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia should not sign a new Criminal Code amendment that would increase the […]

Dakar -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia should not sign a new Criminal Code amendment that would increase the punishment for [...]

Sep 10, 2014 (Amnesty International/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia should not sign a new Criminal Code amendment that would increase the punishment for […]

President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia should not sign a new Criminal Code amendment that would increase the punishment for 'aggravated homosexuality' to life in prison, Amnesty International and Human Rights [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by Amnesty International USA: President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia should not sign a new Criminal Code amendment that would increase the [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Human Rights First: Human Rights First today said that the passage of a discriminatory bill by Gambia's National Assembly represents an [...]

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The following information was released by the United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe: 76 countries worldwide criminalize private, consensual same-sex relationships, exposing millions of individuals [...]

NAIROBI -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in Uganda have reported a surge in human rights violations since [...]

Nairobi, May 15, 2014 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in Uganda have reported a surge in human rights […]

Boycotts and protests of the famed Beverly Hills Hotel have shined a bright light on the oil-rich nation of Brunei's recent imposition of Sharia law, a brutal criminal code that [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Human Rights First: Human Rights First today applauded the Obama Administration's concrete steps to respond to Uganda's discriminatory Anti-Homosexuality Act that [...]

Byline: Sam Giorgi Uganda has recently come under a lot of scrutiny in the Western world for its political views regarding homosexuality. The Anti-Homosexuality Act was signed into law by [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-February 26, 2014-: Ban urges Uganda to repeal anti-homosexuality law (C)1994-2014 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:25022014 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Ugandan authorities to revise or repeal the country's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, [...]

Feb 26, 2014 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Ugandan authorities to revise or repeal the country's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, one day after he said it violates [...]

Feb 26, 2014 (UN News Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Ugandan authorities to revise or repeal the country's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, one day after [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-February 25, 2014-: New anti-homosexuality law in Uganda violates basic human rights, stress UN officials (C)1994-2014 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:24022014 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United Nations High Commissioner for Human [...]

Feb 25, 2014 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have spoken out against the anti-homosexuality law signed into [...]