![Glenda Starke wears a transgender flag as a counter protest during a rally in favor of a ban on gender-affirming health care legislation, March 20, 2023, at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson City. ©2023 AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/11/202311usp_transgender_flag.jpg?h=ddb57540&itok=3Mf6Cv2V)
![Glenda Starke wears a transgender flag as a counter protest during a rally in favor of a ban on gender-affirming health care legislation, March 20, 2023, at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson City. ©2023 AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/11/202311usp_transgender_flag.jpg?h=ddb57540&itok=3Mf6Cv2V)
Uzbekistan: Take Action on Rights Abuses Raised at UN Review
Address Restrictions on Independent Media, Civil Society, LGBT Rights
![Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/09/202109Americas_Venezuela_HRC.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=is8vJVBl)
Honduras: Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 97th Pre-Sessional Working Group
Joint submission by Centro de Derechos de Mujeres and Human Rights Watch
UN Committee Criticizes US Record on LGBT Rights
Recommends Repeal of Discriminatory Laws
![An activist wears a the transgender pride flag as a counter protest during a rally in favor of a ban on gender-affirming health care legislation at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson, US, March 20, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/11/202311lgbt_usa_transgender_rights_missouri.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=OGW418md)
Brazil’s Congress Holds Public Hearing on Teacher Harassment
Stop Politicizing Gender and Sexuality Education; Protect Children and Teachers
![A public hearing on the “harassment of teachers in Brazil” held by the Education and Human Rights committees of the Chamber of Deputies on October 30, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/10/202310ame_lgbt_brazil_harassment_of_teachers.jpg?h=437652df&itok=bbDbHfjZ)
Letter to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin
Re: Human Rights Agenda for New Government
South Korean Court Upholds Military 'Sodomy' Law
National Assembly Should Repeal Archaic Anti-LGBT Provision
Human Rights Watch’s Reid to Fill Top UN Role
Named Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Victory for Transgender Rights in Japan
Supreme Court Rules Compulsory Sterilization Unconstitutional
![Trans rights event at the Japanese National Diet, October 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/10/202310lgbt_asia_japan_trans_rights.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=UGCBDk3t)
Japan Court Rules Against Mandatory Transgender Sterilization
Surgery Requirement Held to be Unconstitutional
![Gen Suzuki, center, enters Shizuoka family court in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan for a court hearing on October 14, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/10/202310lgbt_asia_japan_gen_suzuki_court_hearing.jpg?h=cd79c055&itok=E8q1daCj)
Nepal Courts Refuse to Register Same-Sex Marriages
Lower Courts Defy Supreme Court Order
![Surendra Pandey, right, and Maya Gurung, who married six years ago, pose for a photograph](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/10/202310asia_nepal_MayaGurung_SurendraPandey.jpg?h=3d905b72&itok=q3Gf35OD)
Philippine Drag Artist Arrested for ‘Offending Religion’
Charges Violate Free Expression Rights and Should Be Dropped
![Amadeus Fernando Pagente, popularly known as Pura Luka Vega, a drag artist, is jailed after he was arrested in Manila on October 4, 2023, after being accused of “offending religion.”](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/10/202310asia_lgbt_philippines_pura_luka_vega.jpg?h=4994e1c7&itok=l_z0m3mI)
Mauritian Court Finds Sodomy Law Unconstitutional, Discriminatory
Ruling Removes a Colonial-Era Relic from Statute Books
![A march for the rights of LGBT people and gender equality in the town of Rose Hill, Mauritius, June 2, 2007.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/10/202310lgbt_mariutius_pride_parade.jpg?h=c029297a&itok=HgZsV6En)
Human Rights Violations against Transgender Communities in the US
Shadow Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee For the United States Review