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December 7, 2016 Witness

Witness: A Teacher Unable to Protect LGBT Students

How US Laws Leave Educators Fearful, Students Vulnerable to Bullying

December 5, 2016 Dispatches

Paying a High Price for Promoting LGBT Rights

Activist Attacked in Dagestan, Police Refuse to Investigate

Screenshot of the attack on LGBT rights activist in Makhachkala, December 1, 2016.

November 29, 2016 Dispatches

Indonesian Militant Islamists, Police Raid Gay Gathering

Latest Act of Government Complicity in Anti-LGBT Discrimination

People drive a motorcycle past a banner put up by the hardline Islamic Defenders Front calling for gay people to leave the Cigondewah Kaler area in Bandung, Indonesia West Java province, January 27, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The banner read

November 25, 2016 News Release

Morocco: Drop Homosexuality Charges Against Teenage Girls

Could Face Three Years in Prison

November 21, 2016 News Release

UN: Victory for LGBT Rights

General Assembly Rejects Effort to Stop Expert's Work

Vitit Muntarbhorn, recently appointed Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, addresses the media during a news conference at the United Nations headqua

November 21, 2016 Letter

Civil Society Joint Statement to the Third Committe: Defend Independence of the UN Human Rights Council

November 18, 2016 News Release

US: Trump's Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

November 11, 2016 Dispatches

A Step Towards Better Addressing Discrimination in Uganda

Court Ruling Allows Equal Opportunities Commission to Hear Broader Range of Cases

A Ugandan transgender woman in a town near Kampala, shortly before she fled the country. She left to escape police harassment and violence.

November 10, 2016 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission to WHO High-level Working Group on Health & Human Rights of Women, Children & Adolescents

November 8, 2016 Commentary

State's Double Dealing a Threat to Rights in SA

A drag queen participates in Durban Pride in Durban, South Africa, July 30, 2011.

November 6, 2016 Commentary

When Being Counted Can Lead to Being Protected: Pakistan's Transgender and Intersex Activists

Supporters of civil rights group for transgender people, the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA), dance and chant slogans as they pose with a national flag ahead of the Independence Day in Karachi, Pakistan August 3, 2016

November 5, 2016 Commentary

Anti-LGBT Tilt Taints Singapore Commerce

Participants at the annual Pink Dot Singapore event, in Singapore on June 28 2014.

November 3, 2016 Dispatches

US Supreme Court Takes Transgender Rights Case

Students Should be Able to Use Facilities Consistent With Gender Identity

U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2016.

November 1, 2016 Letter