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Conservative Indonesians vs. LGBTI rights

Photo from 2007 protest by trans Indonesians seeking recognition of their human rights. (Photo courtesy of Rappler)

LGBTI Indonesians often are at odds with conservative Muslims in their quest for recognition of their human rights.

Those confrontations pose particular difficulties, because Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population — more than 200 million, an estimated 95 percent…

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#Aceh #Banda Aceh #CONQ #Illiza Sa’aduddin Djamal #Indonesia #Jakarta #Java #Makassar #MUI #Sharia #Sharia law #Yogyakarta

Human rights in Oceania -- lots of work to do

Human rights in Oceania — lots of work to do

Like many countries, Nauru has human rights problems. In addition to those specified below that affect LGBTI people, it is the focus of Australians’ protests against their country’s policy of shipping refugees there. (Photo courtesy of SydneyCriminalLawyers.com.au)

Much remains to be done to improve the human rights records of seven Pacific Ocean countries that still have laws against same-sex…

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#Kiribati #Nauru #Papua New Guinea #Samoa #Solomon Islands #Tonga #Tuvalu

Tunisia: Attack targets LGBTQ activist from Shams

Front Line Defenders reports:

Physical attack against LGBTQ rights defender Bouhdid Belhedi

Tunisia, 29 April 2016 —

Bouhdid Belhedi (Photo courtesy of YouTube)

On 27 April 2016, a group of three young men brutally assaulted LGBTQ rights defender Bouhdid Belhedi in his hometown of Hammamet, after the group recognized his affiliation to Shams LGBTQ rights association.

Bouhdid Belhediis a defender…

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#Bouhdid Belhedi #Front Line Defenders #Shams #Tunisia

Why such silence in Egypt amid anti-LGBTI crackdown?

Solidarity with Egypt LGBTQ+ explains: “We designed this logo according to our beliefs, our identities, and the identity of our cause at Solidarity with Egypt LGBT. We used the ‘Ankh’ or key of life in order to express the historical meaning behind this symbol and how, in our minds, it is connected to feminism and the diversity of gender and sexual identity in Egypt.”

Solidarity with Egypt LGBTQ+t…

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#Egypt #Giza #Solidarity with Egypt LGBTQ+#Sweden

LGBTI rights activism: Mostly hidden in Middle East, N. Africa

Northern Africa and the Middle East (Map courtesy of LaHistoriaConMapas.com)

Public recognition of the human rights of LGBTI people remains rare in the many Middle Eastern and North African countries that still have laws against same-sex intimacy.

In most of those countries, even advocacy of those rights is unusual. Such advocacy is mostly underground, online or abroad for Algeria, Egypt,…

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#Algeria #Egypt #Iran #Iraq #Israel #Kuwait #Lebanon #Libya #Morocco #Oman #Palestine #Qatar #Saudi Arabia #Syria #Tunisia #U.A.E.#UAE #United Arab Emirates #Yemen

Petition to Facebook: Act against anti-LGBT hate-mongers

LGBT activists and allies from India and Bangladesh are seeking support for a petition to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action against anti-LGBT people who are using the social media site to incite violence.

Dhaka’s Rainbow Rally in 2015. This year’s version was canceled because of threats of violence. (Photo courtesy of the Dhaka Tribune.)

Here is their explanation of the…

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#Bangladesh #Facebook #India

Caribbean nations inch their way toward LGBTI rights

Map of the Caribbean shows Belize at center left and Trinidad and Guyana at lower right. (Map courtesy of CDC.gov)

Homeless LGBT youths in Jamaica slept in a drainage culvert before police forced them out in 2014. (Photo courtesy of Micheal Forbes)

Several Caribbean countries with laws against same-sex intimacy are at least discussing the possibility of repealing them. In Belize and Jamaica,…

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#Antigua #Antigua and Barbuda #Barbados #Belize #Dominica #Grenada #Guyana #Jamaica #Saint Kitts and Nevis #Saint Lucia #St. Kitts #St. Kitts & Nevis #St. Lucia #St. Vincent #St. Vincent and the Grenadines #Trinidad #Trinidad & Tobago #Trinidad and Tobago

Appeal to Bangladesh: Investigate LGBT murders

Human Rights Watch issued this appeal for action in Bangladesh against violence targeting LGBTI people and others whose views irritate Islamist militants:

Bangladesh: Investigate LGBT murders

Xulhaz Mannan (Photo courtesy of StopHomophobie.com)

The Bangladeshi authorities should immediately investigate the killings of two lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) human rights activists,…

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#Bangladesh #Boys of Bangladesh #Global Human Rights Defence #HRW #Human Rights Watch #Meenakshi Ganguly #Sheik Hasina

11 Egyptians sentenced to prison for homosexuality

Dalia Abdel Hameed: “These morality raids … We have almost gotten to the point of merely waiting for them to occur.” (Photo courtesy of Delta Women)

Agence France-Presse reports today:

A court in Egypt has sentenced a group of 11 men convicted of homosexuality to prison for periods ranging from three to 12 years. …

The French news agency cited legal sources as saying that the men were arrested in…

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#Dalia Abd El-Hameed #Dalia Abdel Hameed #Egypt #Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

Appeal for an end to anti-LGBT campaign in Tunisia

Logo of Shams

A wave of anti-LGBT speech and occasional violence has swept over Tunisia, which may be the only North African country with an officially recognized LGBT organization. That association, Shams (in English, “Sun”), is calling for an end to the homophobic campaign.

Shams issued this press release yesterday. It has been modestly edited here:

Tunisia is experiencing a large anti-LGBT…

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#Kairouan #Shams #Tunisia

Two LGBT activists murdered in Bangladesh

Xulhaz Mannan (Photo courtesy of Facebook)

In Bangladesh, two LGBT rights activists, including the editor of Roopbaan, the country’s first ever LGBT magazine, were hacked to death this morning in a flat in the country’s capital, Dhaka.

The deceased are Xulhaz Mannan, 35, and his friend, Tanay/Tonoy Mojumdar.

Bangladeshi LGBT rights activists expressed shock and depression about the murders.

“Xul…

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Toolkit for progress toward LGBT rights in 53 countries

Map shows members of the Commonwealth of Nations, including those with anti-homosexuality laws and those that have repealed them. (Map courtesy of Wikipedia)

The Commonwealth of 53 nations, formerly the British Commonwealth, can play a positive role in improving the lives of LGBT citizens even though dozens of those countries still have anti-LGBT laws inherited from their former colonial…

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Archbishop to Mugabe: Anti-gay laws are wrong

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (Photo courtesy of Info.Catho.be)

Will the worldwide Anglican Communion stop supporting the homophobic Anglican Churches of Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, since those churches endorse their countries’ anti-gay laws?

That’s what would happen if the world’s various Anglican churches — all of them originally descended from the Church of England — take Archbishop of…

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#ACC #Anglican Church of Kenya #Anglican Church of Nigeria #Anglican Church of Uganda #Anglican Communion #Anglican Consultative Council #Archbishop of Canterbury #Church of Kenya #Church of Nigeria #Church of Uganda #Justin Welby #Kenya #Nigeria #Robert Mugabe #Uganda #Zambia #Zimbabwe

Activists launch survey of young LGBTIQ Africans

Rainbow-colored Africa (Image courtesy of WIkipedia)

An activist organization of young LGBTIQ Africans is gearing up to play a larger role in the fight against injustice and anti-LGBTIQ violence.

In preparation for the Pan-Africa ILGA conference of activists, planned for May in South Africa, the African Queer Youth Initiative in cooperation with Advocates for Youthis conducting an anonymous…

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#Advocates for Youth #African Queer Youth Initiative #Pan Africa ILGA

Ready to celebrate May 17 (IDAHOT) despite dangers

Text version of world map that’s used by IDAHOT

Activists in some of the world’s 76-plus countries with anti-LGBTI laws are preparing to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) on May 17.

The event, billed as a worldwide celebration of sexual and gender diversity, commemorates the day in 1990 when the World Health Organization officially removed homosexuality…

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#IDAHOT #International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia #Kenya #Myanmar #Singapore #Tunisia

Proposals for new 'gay propaganda' laws; Europe worries

Proposals for new ‘gay propaganda’ laws; Europe worries

Map compiled by Human RIghts First shows the status of anti-‘gay propaganda’ laws in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The European Parliament is keeping a worried eye on two Central Asian nations’ proposals to adopt Russian-style anti-“gay propaganda” laws.

The Russian law, enacted in 2013, provides for fines of up to 200,000 rubles (about US $3,000) for “propaganda of non-traditional sexual…

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#&039;Gay propaganda&039; law #Anti-gay propaganda law #Belarus #Daniele Viotti #Dzerzhinsk Russia #European Parliament #Intergroup on LGBTI Rights #Kazakhstan #Kyrgyzstan #LGBTI Intergroup #Lithuania #Malin Björk

Attackers break Ugandan LGBTI activist's jaw

Attackers break Ugandan LGBTI activist’s jaw

Kuchu Times reports:

Kabuye Najib before the attack (Photo courtesy of Kuchu Times)

Kabuye Najib, a Ugandan LGBTI and sex workers’ activist, was early [last] week attacked by a gang of 8 men. At 11:00pm on 9th April as Najib approached his gate, eight unidentified males attacked and beat him severely, leaving him with a dislocated jaw.

Najib is a national coordinator for the Uganda Harmonized…

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