Unzipped: Gay Armenia

Brief reflections of different aspects re LGBT rights in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan by Human Rights Watch within their annual World Rep...

Unfortunately, no similar section (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) is available within the country specific Human Rights Watch repo...

Excellent. Right to the point. The letter by Human Rights Watch , dated 12 August 2013 (see pdf file ), publicised yesterday. For ad...

Below are relevant extracts from the Human Rights Watch 2013 report on Armenia : Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity In July, the NG...

This is why (along with other reasons) I made London my new home. This is why, despite all the problems and remaining challenges, UK is the ...

Multiple Murders Highlight Inadequate State Protection February 22, 2010 Protecting people and preventing violence means more than inves...

Human Rights Watch : The killing of Ebru Soykan, a prominent transgender human rights activist, on March 10, 2009, shows a continuing climat...

Human Rights Watch: Equality is a basic value underlying human rights standards and cannot be retracted at the whim of a simple majority, H...

I wonder why gay men and transgender women are not included in this report (although the issue of hate and violence against gay men is menti...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) The only gay rights association in Istanbul has been ordered to close by a Turkish court, after a prosecutor claimed tha...

■ The march in Konur Street, Ankara. Despite widespread homophobia and discrimination, as evidenced in a report released today by Human Rig...

"Democracy means defending all people’s basic rights against the dictatorship of custom and the tyranny of hate." Scott Long Direc...

Human Rights Watch The president of Poland, the leader of Uganda, and the UK Home Office are making prejudicial policies and public statem...

Human Rights Watch (Istanbul, April 16, 2008) – A police raid on a Turkish human rights organization is the latest incident in an escalating...

US immigration law discriminates same sex couples: among others, a story of Armenian American Rita Boyadjian Sebastian Cordoba’s documentary...

According to AP news agency, several hundred skinheads and right-wing activists threw rotten eggs and smoke bombs at people participating i...

Europe = Tolerance? Polish authorities completely lost it. Now they are fighting against… cartoon character! A senior Polish official has or...

Pope Benedict XVI , US President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have undermined human rights by actively promoti...