The United Nations has called for an investigation into unprecedented violence against transgender women in El Salvador. The investigation comes after the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded seven deaths of trans women in the country so far this year; local LGBT organizations put the toll at 17.
A recent spike in killings of transgender people has underlined the ongoing violence and discrimination they face in El Salvador, a notoriously violent country in the world’s deadliest region for LBGT people.
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking to Mark Bromley, who launched the Council for Global Equality to advance a stronger U.S. foreign…
Gay, lesbian, transgender and other people who represent gender or sexual diversities face enormous stigma in their communities, by one estimate undermining the potential economic contribution these people could be making worldwide by $100 billion annually. This figure, calculated by lead UNAIDS researcher and health economist Erik Lamontagne, is at best a conservative estimate because data on some groups is limited.
The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Wednesday that its contractors cannot discriminate based on race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. The policy does not apply to employees of foreign aid contractors and grant recipients.
Stigma against LGBT communities remains a challenge for organizations that work with HIV/AIDS patients. But the biggest challenge of all might be keeping the disease in the spotlight.
Transgender Bolivians are celebrating a new national law that permits them to update their genders on state IDs. Under the…
Human rights advocates from major Western nations and organizations are protesting against a United Nations decision to bar 22 LGBT-affiliated…
Xulhaz Mannan, the editor of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine, was hacked to death in his apartment Monday in the latest…
A bill seeking to further restrict nonprofit operations in Uganda prompted an international condemnation earlier this year after local civil…