Anti-LGBT Rampage in Georgia Exposes Frustrations with the West
By Molly CorsoTBILISI, Jun 3 2013 (EurasiaNet)Georgia may be touted as the most pro-Western country in the South Caucasus, but the recent backlash against LGBT activists in Tbilisi underscores how wide...
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U.N. GA Cold Shoulders International Day Against Homophobia
Homosexuality is broadly accepted in North America, the EU and much of Latin America, but widely rejected in predominantly Muslim nations and Africa, as well as in parts of Asia and Russia. Credit:...
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No Place for Gays in Yemen
Members of the Rights and Freedoms Working Group at a meeting in Sana’a. Credit: Luke Somers/IPS.By Shuaib AlmosawaSANA’A, Aug 16 2013 (IPS)As he gets ready to go to a café in Yemen’s capital Sana’a,...
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New Anti-Discrimination Law Could Worsen Situation for Georgia’s LGBT Community
LGBT flag map of Georgia. Credit: Wikipedia CommonsBy Pavol StracanskyTBILISI, Sep 8 2014 (IPS)Georgia’s LGBT community is sceptical that recently-introduced anti-discrimination legislation hailed by...
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LGBT Visibility in Africa Also Brings Backlash
Kenyan LGBT rights supporters protest Uganda’s anti-homosexuality law. Credit: Dai Kurokawa/EPABy Joel JaegerUNITED NATIONS, Sep 9 2014 (IPS)Eighteen-year-old Gift Makau enjoyed playing and refereeing...
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Civil Society Freedoms Merit Role in Post-2015 Development Agenda
In this column, Mandeep Tiwana, a lawyer specialising in human rights and civil society issues and Head of Policy and Research at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, reports that civil society...
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Mixed Prospects for LGBT Rights in Central and Eastern Europe
Billboard for the referendum called to strengthen a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption in Slovakia in February. It says: WE ARE DECIDING ABOUT CHILDREN'S FUTURES. LET'S...
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Opinion: Homosexuality Will Never Be Eliminated. How About Eliminating...
A Ugandan transgender woman in a town near Kampala, shortly before she fled the country. She left to escape the police harassment and violence she experienced after the passage of the...
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Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights
Presidents Barack Obama and Uhuru Kenyatta wave to delegates at the Opening Plenary at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, in Nairobi, Kenya on July 25, 2015. Credit: U.S. Embassy NairobiBy Aruna...
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Olympic Games – More Media Show than Sports Event
Judoka Rafaela Silva, who won Brazil’s first medal – gold - on Aug. 8, had received racial slurs like “monkey that should be in a cage” when she was disqualified from the London 2012 Games; now she is...
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