After everythg that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people experienced 2017 seemed only fair that 2018 would start off wh a small glimmer of hope. What we didn’t expect was that hope would be served up om nearly all rners of the earth.
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GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: WHERE ARE WE AT?
People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * lgbt rights around the world 2018 *
In a 2017 letter on Chechnya’s anti-gay purge to activists, the secretary general of FIFA, Fatma Samoura, wrote that the anizatn’s events need to be “discrimatn-ee environments, cludg ncerng discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.
After everythg that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people experienced 2017 — om roundups and torture Chechnya to antigay wch hunts Egypt and Indonia, closure of queer-iendly health facili Tanzania, and a ncerted effort by the Tmp admistratn to roll back equal rights the Uned Stat — seemed only fair that 2018 would start off wh a small glimmer of hope. And 2016, five gay and lbian Indians filed a wr petn, as dividuals directly affected by the law, which prompted the Supreme Court to orr a rensiratn of the 2013 cisn by a larger bench, sayg that the lg was nsistent wh a recent lg on privacy rights.
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The term LGBTI refers to a broad tegory of people, cludg those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or tersex, although we regnize that there are many terms around the world that are ed by people to fe their sexual orientatn or genr inty.
She is also the Pacific Islands Reprentative on the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn Executive Board and Chairperson of the South Pacific MSM (Men Who Have Sex wh Men) Network Group. In 2018, India's Supreme Court crimalised gay Sgapore announced on Sunday that will repeal a law crimalisg gay sex but many other parts of the world homosexualy is illegal and sometim subject to the ath penalty.
A crime AiAround 30 Ain untri ban homosexualy, wh Mrania, Somalia and Sudan havg the ath penalty for same-sex Ai is the sole natn on the Ain ntent to allow gay marriage, which legalised sex is crimalised only a handful of untri: Angola, Lotho, Mozambique and the East: reprsedSeveral untri the nservative regn still have the ath penalty for homosexualy, cludg Sdi Arabia and the Uned Arab leads the way terms of gay rights, regnisg same-sex marriag that are performed elsewhere although not allowg such unns the untry self.
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Lebanon is also more tolerant than other Arab, first AsiaWhile much of Asia is tolerant of homosexualy, Taiwan beme the first the regn to allow gay marriage after a landmark lg by s Constutnal Court 2017.
Thailand June took a step towards same-sex marriage when lawmakers gave ial approval to legalisg same-sex 2018, India's Supreme Court crimalised gay marriage and adoptn are allowed New Zealand and, gay marriage pneersThe Netherlands 2001 beme the first untry the world to allow gay upl to then, 17 European untri have followed: Atria, Belgium, Bra, Denmark, Fland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spa, Swen, Slovenia and untri allow only gay civil partnerships, cludg the Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyps, Estonia, Greece, Hungary and Rsia, homosexualy was nsired a crime up to 1993 and a mental illns until 1999. Progrs the AmerisCanada was the first Amerin untry to thorise same-sex marriage and adoptns 2005, and 10 years later the Uned Stat legalised gay marriage Lat Ameri, Argenta, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Ri, Chile and Uguay allow same-sex 's feral pal was the pneer the regn, thorisg gay civil unns 2007 and marriag 2009.