The LGBTQI community in Tunisia, although still facing imprisonment, beatings and insults, is organising and slowly making headway with the cause of sexual minorities.Read the full article
“Of all the forms of resistance seen over the last few weeks, one in particular seems the most capable of confronting the fascist menace threatening Brazil: the active and on-going resistance of women, particularly of black women.”Read the full article
“It is hard for people to understand that freedom of expression is a right for all; we have to be able to consent to what we do not like.”Read the full article
What lessons can these new grassroots movements teach us? Can local or individual struggles have global resonance? One thing they do demonstrate is how uniting and fighting together can have a real impact.Read the full article
“The more visible we become, the more backlash we receive, but that is part of struggle.”Read the full article
“When I go to Europe people ask me to say hi to Putin and wonder how I am still alive. They think it’s like Saudi Arabia here.”Read the full article
Freedom from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation has been enshrined in the Constitution of Kosovo since June 2008. And yet, the number of LGBTQI Kosovars that are willing to publicly identify themselves as such could be counted on two [...]Read the full article
While men sometimes suffer from this kind of abuse, the vast majority of victims/survivors remain women, while the vast majority of perpetrators are men.Read the full article
“Making gender the binary division of clothing is arbitrary. It makes shopping difficult too. A more rational shop floor division might be trousers, shirts, dresses, skirts, knitwear, polo shirts, etc.”Read the full article
With their rallying cry Ni Una Menos, Vivas Nos Queremos (“Not One Woman Less. We Want Us All Alive”), Argentinian women have become the vanguard of a renewed women’s movement that is making its way across the region.Read the full article
Artikel 1 breathes fresh air into an election that has been dominated by the debate about – but not with – immigrants, and the perceived threat they pose to traditional Dutch values.Read the full article
Brazil holds the unenviable record of having the highest number of homophobic and transphobic murders in the world.Read the full article
