Country Reports
Information on the conditions for LGBTI minorities in specific countries from global human rights organizations and other sources.
Documents
Turi Abande? A landscape analysis of the human rights of sex workers and LGBT communities in Burundi.
| Date added: | 06/23/2016 |
| Date modified: | 06/23/2016 |
| Filesize: | 1.44 MB |
| Downloads: | 761 |
2016, 54 pages
This report by the East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative maps the political, social, legal and organisational landscape of sex workers and LGBT people in Burundi. It further describes the lived realities of these people.
Landscape Analysis of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex People and Sex Workes in the Democratic Republic of Congo
| Date added: | 09/07/2017 |
| Date modified: | 09/07/2017 |
| Filesize: | 3.13 MB |
| Downloads: | 756 |
2017, 58 pages
This study consists of focus group discussions, surveys, and interviews conducted with LGBTI persons and sex workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its author positions personal experiences of LGBTI persons and sex workers in relation to legal framework, political context, and healthcare system in DRC.
Pathologizing Identities, Paralyzing Bodies: Human Rights Violations Against Gay, Lesbian and Transgender People in Iran
| Date added: | 09/26/2017 |
| Date modified: | 09/26/2017 |
| Filesize: | 2.2 MB |
| Downloads: | 748 |
2014, 103 pages
Pathologizing Identities, Paralyzing Bodies: Human Rights Violations against Lesbian, Gay and Transgender People in Iran is an outcome of a two year research project that includes several field trips to Turkey and 13 other countries, as well as the in-depth interviews with more than 80 individuals from Iran’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. This report is launched in Istanbul, Turkey, where large numbers of Iranian LGBT asylum seekers are based.
Study on violence against LGBTQ individuals in Tunisia
| Date added: | 05/31/2018 |
| Date modified: | 05/31/2018 |
| Filesize: | 1.8 MB |
| Downloads: | 709 |
2018, 71 pages
This report in French, English and Arabic has been carried out by 3 LGBTQ organisations in Tunesia and measures the frequency of violence against LGBTQ individuals, analyses situations of violence and the consequences of these incidents. 300 people have participated in the study.
The report concludes that contrary to media coverage of some cases, violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender is a massive phenomenon and therefore irreducible to inter-individual conflicts.
Disciplining Bodies, Diagnosing Identities, Mandatory Veiling, Mandatory Sterilization, Sexual Torture and the Right to Bodily Integrity in the Islamic Republic of Iran
| Date added: | 10/06/2017 |
| Date modified: | 10/06/2017 |
| Filesize: | 1019.81 kB |
| Downloads: | 699 |
2014, 11 pages
This submission has been prepared by Justice For Iran (JFI) for the 20th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Islamic Republic of Iran in November 2014. It is concerned with a range of distinct but interrelated criminal laws and other legal restrictions and practices that infringe the dignity and autonomy of women and transgender people, on grounds of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, particularly in respect of bodily integrity, sexual and reproductive health and decision-making. It is also concerned with patterns of sexual torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment (hereafter “other ill-treatment”) against women prisoners of conscience, and with the culture of impunity by which such long-standing patterns of abuse are characterized.
