Chechnya’s LGBT Muslim Refugees Struggle To Cope In Exile
On Jan 5, 2018 NPR reported: Abdul Kadr’s wife found out he was gay the night his relatives came to kill him. She hid him inside the home in Grozny, […]
Category Archives: Rest of the World
News and videos from other parts of the world.
Malaysian transgender conversion plan sparks alarm: A Human Rights Watch report in 2017 wrote that discrimination against LGBT people was “pervasive” in Malaysia, where there are laws against sodomy, with offenders facing jail time and whipping.
On Dec 30, 2017 Hindustan Times reported: A Malaysian state plans to run a conversion therapy course aimed at transgender women, officials said Saturday, sparking alarm among LGBT activists in […]
Mexico/Central America: Authorities turning their backs on LGBTI refugees
On Nov 27, 2017 Amnesty International reported: The lives and safety of Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex people (LGBTI) from violence-ridden El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are at an increased […]
Gay Men Detail Homophobic Torture by Chechnya Authorities
On June 15, 2017 Newsweek published a video online Source: Gay Men Detail Homophobic Torture by Chechnya Authorities
Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia’s Chechen Republic
On May 26, 2016 Human Rights Watch reported: My life is ruined. I cannot go back. And it’s not safe here either. They have long arms and they can find […]
This Refugee Reveals What It’s Like Being Gay in Militarized North Korea
As U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un rattle their sabres at one another amid threats of nuclear retaliation, it’s easy to characterize North Korea as unstable, […]
Shariah court in Indonesia sentences gay couple to caning
On May 17, 2017 CBC News reported: An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two gay men to public caning for the first time, further undermining […]
