Tamara Gausi:To round up the year, each Equal Times editor picks the stories that have stayed in their heart and mind, long after publication.Read the full article
“The whole idea of strategic litigation is not just important from the perspective of winning victories. It is also important from the perspective of our experience in Europe being written into official records of state courts.”Read the full article
Despite medical breakthroughs, the stigma attached to HIV remains firmly entrenched in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the impact on those affected is devastating. Structural and economic inequalities are also hindering access to effective [...]Read the full article
The Maricas Bolivia Movement, which has been occupying the media and the public space for over 10 years, fights not only against homophobia and transphobia in Bolivian society, Indigenous communities included, but also against white hegemony in the social imaginary of the institutional LGBTQI+ [...]Read the full article
Trade unions – which consider solidarity and the respect of the human rights of all people as fundamental principles – have a crucial role to play in challenging discriminatory laws, supporting the LGBTQI+ community at work and ensuring that we live in a more inclusive and respectful [...]Read the full article
While South Africa has some of the continent’s most progressive laws on LGBTQ+ rights, LGBTQ+ South Africans still face significant social stigma and violence and struggle to find their place.Read the full article
In Yerevan, Armenia, a group of LGBTQ+ and feminist activists have opened the FemLibrary, the first feminist library in the city, in an apartment.Read the full article
Whether in public or private, in the domestic or labour sphere, the killing of women, girls and non-binary people because of their sex and gender is a global phenomenon. According to a 2021 UNODC report, a woman or girl was killed by someone in their family every 11 minutes in [...]Read the full article
This photo essay is an immersive insight into the transgender communities of Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India, a testament to the day-to-day struggles and resilience of transgender women.Read the full article
From the cyberattacks on Israeli hospitals that affected thousands of people, to those that paralysed most of Iran’s petrol pumps for several days, cyber warfare in the Middle East is on the rise and its targets are increasingly [...]Read the full article
“For decades women have struggled and have ultimately been able to gain rights such as voting, the right to stand for elections [passive suffrage], education, property and work. But women are now once again being forced back into the private [...]Read the full article
With the work of human rights organisations regularly obstructed, with independent media under fire, and the courts filled with PiS loyalists, the ruling party has launched an ugly, multi-pronged culture war on Poland’s LGBTI community, in a bid to further polarise a divided society and [...]Read the full article
MV Lee Badgett:While 29 countries now allow same-sex couples to marry, every country is still a developing country when it comes to the full inclusion of LGBT people.Read the full article
“There are tools for government and employers to address this increase in violence. We know that there is a strong connection between violence at home and violence at work, and we absolutely need to address this in terms of human [...]Read the full article
The most frequent form of violence is bullying, with supervisors screaming and cursing at workers, threatening them if they do not produce at the required pace and harassing them for using the bathroom.Read the full article
Andrew Firmin:This global backlash of conservative anti-rights activism has been eroding hard-won human rights across the globe. But it is being met by an impressive civil society response that is increasingly seeking to build new coalitions and reach a broader range of [...]Read the full article
The Emerald Warriors, Ireland’s first LGBT rugby team, aims to be inclusive by welcoming players regardless of their sexuality. It is one way of disproving the chauvinistic and homophobic clichés surrounding rugby.Read the full article
Although homosexuality is not illegal in Burkina Faso, members of the LGBTI community, and trans people in particular, struggle to find places where they feel safe.Read the full article
For many years, the LGBTI community ignored its own elders. Today, the first generations that fought for equal rights are reaching retirement age and the issue has been forced on the community.Read the full article
A Dutch initiative which allows transgender people to take their medical care and needs into own hands marks a major milestone in the struggle for transgender rights.Read the full article
The debut feature film by Marcelo Martinessi gives centre stage to a sexagenarian female couple who face up to the loss of their social status and their relationship in Paraguay, a country where the LGTBI population live in the [...]Read the full article
Activists from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, amongst others, are calling for an end to educating schoolchildren with texts that portray women as subordinate and LGBTI people as abnormal.Read the full article