LGBT

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1.4 million refugees set to need urgent resettlement in 2020: UNHCR

1 July 2019
Migrants and Refugees

More than 1.4 million displaced people in over 60 refugee hosting countries will need resettlement next year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday, while also supporting a call for far greater protection for vulnerable LGBTI individuals seeking asylum.

UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi

‘So freeing’ to come out as ‘a lesbian and a feminist’

30 June 2019
Interviews

Back in 1976 Linda Tyson came out as “a lesbian and a feminist”, she told UN News on the sidelines of the 2019 New York City LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] Pride March on Fifth Avenue, long before the UN-GLOBE joined the World Pride parade.

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UN Photo/Manuel Elias

Friday’s Daily Brief: Honouring fallen peacekeepers, action against gender-based violence; LGBT rights in Kenya, Rohingya water crisis

24 May 2019
Peace and Security

Friday's main stories include: Honouring UN peacekeepers; landmark conference to combat sexual and gender-based violence in crises; Kenya upholds LGBT ban; UNICEF’s plea for Afghani children; Brazil’s bid to compensate tobacco smokers; Water shortages in Bangladesh

Benson Kua

UN rights chief warns of potential ‘witch-hunt’ as Tanzanian official plans to track and arrest LGBT people

2 November 2018
Human Rights

The United Nations human rights chief has warned that an official campaign in and around the capital of Tanzania to identify and detain anyone suspected of being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) “could turn into a witch-hunt.”

A child suffering from cholera is held by his father as he receives treatment at the Alsadaqah Hospital, Aden, Yemen, 14 August 2017. © UNICEF/UN078078/Mutaz Fuad

News in Brief 13 October 2017 (PM)

13 October 2017
News in Brief

Yemen cholera cases top 820,000

The number of suspected cases of cholera in Yemen is now over 820,000, the United Nations said on Friday.

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High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre

News in Brief 26 May 2017 – (AM)

26 May 2017
News in Brief

UN rights office condemns Gaza executions by “field military court”

The UN human rights office has condemned the execution of three men by Gaza authorities, accused of being involved in the 24 March murder of Hamas leader Mazen Al Faqhaa.

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Cicely-Belle Blain.
UN Photo/Matt Wells

Risk of “outright violence” increasing against LGBT in cities

25 October 2016
General News

The risk of “outright violence” against the LGBT community is growing in cities but hopes are high that a newly-adopted agenda for future urban living will create more “safe spaces”.

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Caleb Orozco. OHCHR Photo/Charles Radcliffe

UN Gender Focus Special: LGBT

22 September 2016
UN Gender Focus

Caleb Orozco’s story of survival

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UN Photo/Kim Haughton

Ban calls for continued efforts to secure equal rights for LGBT community

21 September 2016
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the international community to continue working for equal rights and fair treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, reiterating the UN’s commitment to securing their human rights.
Representatives of the LGBT Core Group, including Samantha Power (centre), United States Ambassador to the UN, assemble at the rainbow crossing on 1st Avenue and 46th Street. OHCHR Photo/Charles Radcliffe

Rainbow crossing shows LGBT fight continues

19 September 2016
General News

A pedestrian crossing outside the United Nations which has been painted in the rainbow colours associated with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender or LGBT movement is a reminder to world leaders that the fight for equality continues.

That’s according to a senior UN official.

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