Hungary’s President Should Veto Anti-LGBT Law
Equating Pedophilia with Sexual and Gender Diversity is False, Discriminatory, Stigmatizing
![Thousands protest the anti-LGBT law in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202105hungary_voting_lgbtq.jpg?h=6eb229a4&itok=IcpSYao1)
Hungary: Reject Bill Banning Discussion of LGBT Issues
Latest Attack on Diversity Could Affect Health Care, Education
![People march with a giant rainbow flag from the parliament building in Budapest during the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade on July 6, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/11/202011eca_hungary_lgbtflag.jpg?h=2f7900b4&itok=G1QgjPDa)
Activists Detained in Kazakhstan 'For Their Own Safety'
Feminist Activists Attacked and Threatened
![Feminita Kazakstan Activist Arrested](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202105kazakhstan_activists_feminita_arrested.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=ZJ_wWTfl)
Japan: Global Firms Back LGBT Non-Discrimination Act
Supporters Include Coca Cola, Intel, EY, PwC, Salesforce, Deloitte, SegaSammy
![Supporters of Equality Act Japan gather in front of parliament before they submit a petition in Tokyo on March 25, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105asia_japan_equality.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=qz5pFfWC)
Japan: New Momentum to Reform Transgender Law
End Compulsory Sterilizations, ‘Mental Illness’ Diagnosis
![202105asia_japan_lgbt_cover](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105asia_japan_lgbt_main_0.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=v-jcTGQz)
![LGBT activists outside ruling LDP protesting](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105japan_lgbt_rights.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=ul-oYVlx)
Spain: Missed Opportunity on Gender Recognition
Proposal Would Have Upheld Trans, Non-Binary People’s Rights
![The president of the Trans Platform Federation, Mar Cambrollé seen during a rally to pass the so-called 'Trans Law' in the Congress of Deputies in Madrid.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/052021LGBT_Spain_MarCambrolle.jpg?h=fa1c963e&itok=cMVqQJ3r)
In Cameroon Transgender Women Given Five-Years in Prison
Release Trans Women, End Anti-LGBT Persecution
![Njeuken Loic (known as “Shakiro”) and Mouthe Roland (known as “Patricia”), two transgender women, in a Douala prison.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/202104africa_cameroon_transgenderwomenimprisoned.jpg?h=b2272448&itok=f03LF7jw)
Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Singapore
October 2020
![Participants of Pink Dot, an annual event organized in support of the LGBT community, call for the repeal of Section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code, June 29, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/202001wr_singapore_human_rights.jpg?itok=BUUvK4Fm)
Japan’s Ruling Party LGBT Bill Falls Short
Reform Legislation Should Explicitly Include Nondiscrimination Protections
![Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, May 7, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105asia_japan_suga.jpg?h=a2e3a287&itok=EvnxtyYd)
US State of Alabama Removes Anti-LGBT Language from Sex Ed Law
Children and Youth Have a Right to Comprehensive Information
![Pride Flag](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706dev_pride_flag.jpeg?itok=Ggf369ij)
Uganda: Reject Sexual Offenses Bill
Draft Law Criminalizes Consensual Sex, Lets Down Assault Survivors
![Brenda, a Ugandan transgender woman, was arrested and assaulted by police in the wake of the passage of Uganda’s 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Activists fear that the passage of the Sexual Offences Bill will similarly lead to anti-LGBT violence.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105lgbt_Uganda_aha.jpg?h=abce51c1&itok=pnVUv9R4)
New York City Government Votes to Promote Intersex Rights
First in the US Legislation Aims to Educate Public
![Njeuken Loic (known as “Shakiro”) and Mouthe Roland (known as “Patricia”), two transgender women, in a Douala prison.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/202104africa_cameroon_transgenderwomenimprisoned.jpg?h=b2272448&itok=f03LF7jw)