June 19, 2017
On LGBTI Rights, Malta Learns the Rewards of Progress
![Boris Dittrich, Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Advocacy Director, with Monsignor Scicluna, Archbishop of Malta, June 9, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706lgbt_malta_archbishop.jpg?itok=0XGxZD4i)
June 7, 2017
Malaysia: Health Ministry Propagates Harmful Anti-LGBT Myths
Government Should Suspend Competition on 'Preventing' Gender Dysphoria
![Jina, a 22-year-old transgender woman, sports a tattoo of a butterfly—a transgender symbol signifying transformation.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/malaysia0914_coverimage.jpg?itok=A1jhZoHb)
June 7, 2017
US Court Dismisses Uganda LGBTI Case, but Affirms Rights
Group Sued US Christian Evangelist for Role in Promoting Ugandan Anti-Gay Law
![An asylum seeker from Uganda covers his face with a paper bag in order to protect his identity as he marches with the LGBT Asylum Support Task Force during the Gay Pride Parade in Boston, Massachusetts June 8, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-11-uganda-africa-lgbt.jpg?itok=V4YMeEsp)
June 6, 2017
States should protect LGBTI persons from violence and discrimination; Philippines should cooperate with UN executions mandate
Item 3: Interactive Dialogue with Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
![Delegates arrive for the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/rts10k8d_layout_comp.jpg?itok=5c-FiZo8)
June 5, 2017
Sofia LGBT Pride Should Showcase a Tolerant Bulgaria
Municipality Should Protect Pride March
![Participants march in the 2014 Sofia Pride parade in Bulgaria’s capital.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-06-bulgaria-eca-lgbt-pride.jpg?itok=ovYWhHuL)
June 2, 2017
Indonesia: Police Raids Foster Anti-Gay Hysteria
Law Enforcement Needs to Protect LGBT People
![National police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian and President Joko Widodo at Karnavian’s inauguration in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 13, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-5-indonesia-asia-karnavian.jpg?itok=n7O17RjR)
![A victim of the purge telling his story in a safe house in central Russia in April 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/report.-chechnya-cover-new_2.png?itok=mthsdrrJ)
May 25, 2017
Bangladesh “Gay Party” Raid Flouts Privacy Rights
Security Forces Offer Threats, Not Protection
![Members of the the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 4, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/op-ed._bangladesh_rab_c_reuters_2012._may_2017.jpg?itok=fnh3hPer)
May 24, 2017
A First in Asia: Taiwan to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Court Ruling Opens the Way to Marriage Equality
![Supporters hug each other during a rally after Taiwan's constitutional court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to legally marry, the first such ruling in Asia, in Taipei, Taiwan May 24, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-05-taiwan-asia-china-lgbt.jpg?itok=zuPYXzoo)
May 19, 2017
Indonesia: Stop Public Flogging of Gay Men
President Should Denounce Punishment of 85 Lashes for ‘Sodomy’ in Aceh
![Two Indonesian men walk into a cell prior to their trials at a shariah court in Banda Aceh on May 17, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/presser._aceh_flogging._may_2017._gettyimages-684003890.jpg?itok=cpJE6r3h)