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At the UN LGBTI Core Group's General Assembly event, Volker Türk said persecution is escalating 'at an alarming rate.' The Netherlands and UK pledged new money to fill the hole left by US aid cuts. Washington sent no official representative.
Six weeks after Abelardo de la Espriella took office, Colombia pulled out of the Equal Rights Coalition with immediate effect, halfway through its co-chairmanship with Spain. The government says rights aren't affected. Advocates and the national ombudsperson disagree.
Turkish police have detained more than 250 people since September 13 in raids on LGBTQ+ organizations, clubs, and homes under an operation the government calls 'My Family Is Safe.' Here's what's happening and why it matters.
For the first time a Senegalese public authority has acknowledged using anorectal examinations in a criminal investigation involving cisgender heterosexual women. Medical bodies have been clear for a decade that the procedure proves nothing.
Belgrade Pride Week closed Saturday with thousands marching through the capital demanding partnership and gender recognition laws Serbia still doesn't have — a quarter-century after riots nearly ended the event for good.
Caribe Afirmativo documented 270 LGBTIQ+ murders in Colombia last year, up 64% from 2024. The report lands one month into a presidency that rights groups say is openly hostile to the community.
Yoweri Museveni pardoned former Speaker Anita Among of corruption charges this week. LGBTQ+ advocates want an apology instead of gratitude — and aren't getting one.
A fresh case at the University of Dhaka is the latest in a documented pattern of surveillance, expulsion, and prosecution of students accused — often without evidence — of being gay.
The killing of a well-known young gay man in Cameroon's largest city has renewed alarm over the safety of LGBTQ+ people in a country where community leadership is already stretched thin.
A statement from Denmark's civil registration authority reopens a years-long fight to extend legal gender recognition to trans people under 18 — but changing the law still requires Parliament to act.
Archbishop Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, the Anglican Primate of West Africa, spent years backing Ghana's push to criminalize LGBTQ+ people. In a BBC interview last week, he said the church doesn't support it — a shift that won't undo the law, but complicates the religious cover it's relied on.
A High Court judge found Kenya violated a transgender woman's dignity with a forced 'gender determination' procedure in custody, awarding damages and ordering the government to draft new protections.
A shelter for LGBTQ+ domestic violence survivors was promised in Pristina back in 2020. Six years and one allocated budget later, it still doesn't exist — and advocates say the gap is getting harder to ignore.
Ghana's parliament adjourned for recess without voting on a plan to toughen sentencing in the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, leaving the already-passed version sitting on President Mahama's desk unchanged.
Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal have each moved to criminalize or further punish LGBTQ+ people in 2026. Rights groups say the timing and language are too similar to be coincidence.
Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise faced up to life in prison under Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act after their February arrest. Prosecutors have now permanently dropped the case.
Between the canal parties, WorldPride Amsterdam has released the program for its three-day Human Rights Conference — with activists from Venezuela, Pakistan, and beyond taking the stage.
In six days Amsterdam becomes the center of the global queer world for fifteen days of parades, protest, and a human rights conference. Here's what's happening, and why WorldPride 2026 matters more than a party.
A new penal code from Niger's military junta makes same-sex relations punishable by up to ten years in prison, with no room for judicial mercy. Rights monitors say around 40 people have already been detained.
Seven applicants have taken Zimbabwe to court over decades of exclusion and nonconsensual surgery on intersex children. It's a landmark case in a part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum that rarely makes headlines.
On June 29, Senegal's National Assembly amended the constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. It passed unanimously, and it caps a brutal year for the country's LGBTQ+ people.
A landmark May ruling gave Kenyan officials 60 days to start considering gender-marker changes. As that deadline nears in mid-July, advocates are watching to see whether the state complies.
Around 5,000 people marched through central Kyiv on June 21 for Ukraine's largest Pride since Russia's full-scale invasion — a defiant, joyful, and unmistakably wartime demonstration that ended with the crowd dispersing under an air raid alert.
June 20 marks World Refugee Day and the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention. For LGBTQ+ people who flee, the journey to safety in Europe rarely ends at the border — and the Balkan route runs straight through countries still debating whether queer people deserve protection at all.
A landmark ruling orders the Kenyan government to start considering applications to change sex markers on official documents — a rare trans-rights win in a country that still criminalises gay sex.
Kosovo's capital held its tenth Pride parade under the slogan 'Equality or Revolt.' Hundreds marched and diplomats showed up, but this year a telling group stayed away: the country's own politicians.
KyivPride has set its 2026 dates — Pride Park on June 14, the Equality March on June 21 — as the LGBTQ+ movement in wartime Ukraine becomes a statement of resilience as much as rights.
On May 29 Ghana's parliament approved the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill — the legislation that makes it a crime to be LGBTQ+. President Mahama, who has said publicly he will sign it, now holds the only remaining check.
A Russian schoolboy showed classmates a video. Three years after the Kremlin declared the 'international LGBT movement' extremist, that was enough to put him on a juvenile offender registry and threaten his removal from school.
Weeks after Botswana formally deleted colonial-era anti-gay provisions from its Penal Code, a same-sex couple's challenge to the Marriage Act heads to a full bench of the High Court in July.
Five years after parliament rebuilt the body that's supposed to protect LGBTQ+ people, religious minorities, and the disabled, new appointments are raising old fears that politics is about to gut it from the inside.
The 2026 Rainbow Map calls Turkey the country where conditions for LGBTI people deteriorated most visibly in the past year — dissolved organisations, blocked healthcare, and prosecutions targeting activists by name.
Ghana's parliamentary committee held two days of public hearings on April 23 and 24 on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill — the legislation that would criminalize LGBTQ+ identity itself. Here's the state of play, with President Mahama now publicly ambivalent.
A court in a Dakar suburb sentenced a young man to six years in prison for 'acts against nature' — the first ruling since Senegal doubled the maximum penalty for same-sex relations in January.
Albania and Serbia are racing toward EU membership. The price of admission includes reforms on anti-discrimination, hate crimes, and LGBTQ+ protections — and the effects are already visible.
President Faye signs sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that doubles maximum sentences to 10 years and criminalizes advocacy, drawing international condemnation.
The Belarusian parliament approved a sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ bill this week, copying Russia's playbook. Advocates say it criminalizes existence — not just expression.
Ghana's parliament is advancing the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, which would make it a crime to identify as LGBTQ+, to advocate for equal rights, or to attend a same-sex wedding. President Mahama has said he'll sign it.
The Transgender Persons Amendment Bill 2026, now signed by India's president, replaces self-identification with medical certification and narrows the legal definition of who counts as transgender. Human rights groups are calling it a massive step backward.
The biggest LGBTQ+ event in the world is coming to the city that invented same-sex marriage. Here's the full guide to WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 — dates, theme, events, how to plan your trip, and what else is happening across Europe this summer.
