Colin Stewart

The king of the South Pacific nation of Tonga is facing a petition from an association of local lawyers urging him to reverse his appointment of a gay attorney from Wales as chief justice.

Salome Zourabichvili, president of Georgia, says she would veto the anti-LGBT bill, but such a veto is likely to be overridden. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)

In Bangladesh, both the LGBTQ+ community and members of traditional "third-gender" hijra communities face discrimination from many on the wider population,

The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, African politicians and activists from the American religious right have been working side by side to push for anti-homosexuality laws in Africa, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In eight years, the tiny African islands of Seychelles have changed from a country that threatened LGBTQ people with prison into a land that protects

The U.S. has sanctioned four officers of the Uganda Police Force for human rights violations, including (left to right) Alex Mwine, Elly Womanya, and Bob Kagarura. (Photos courtesy of Daily Monitor | Nation Media Group)

Salome Zourabichvili, president of Georgia, had said she would veto the Russian-style anti-LGBTQ bill, but instead she merely refused to sign it. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)

Police rescued the pair from the lynch mob, but the safety of a jail cell didn't last.

Police in Douala, Cameroon, arrested 13 people during a Sept. 30 raid on the offices of Alternatives-Cameroon, which fights against AIDS and advocates for

Activists are outraged that the World Bank is moving forward with plans to restart lending to Uganda without adequate measures to protect people from