LGBT

Nguyen Trong Hung (right) opened a café for the LGBT community in Son La, Viet Nam.
UN Women/Nguyen Minh Duc

First Person: Vietnamese man finds ‘true voice’ in gay community

31 December 2020
Human Rights

A Vietnamese man has told the UN he has found his ‘true voice’ in the gay community, despite the discrimination and harassment that LGBT people face in his country

Matheus Affonso considers himself an “LGBT photographer” and believes it’s important to “portray a population that is often invisible inside the favela”, or slum area.
Matheus Affonso

Global ban needed on bogus ‘conversion therapy’, argues UN rights expert

21 June 2020
Human Rights

“Conversion therapy” is built on the false premise that it can alter the sexual orientation of gender diverse people, and many more countries around the world need to recognize its “dehumanizing” and deeply corrosive impact, according to a UN report that’s before the UN Human Rights Council this month.

Two friends support LGBT rights on Gay Pride Day in New York City (2018).
UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi

Use of religious beliefs to justify rights violations must be outlawed says UN expert

2 March 2020
Human Rights

Laws underpinned by religious conviction that discriminate against women and the  LGBT+ community should be repealed, and gender-based violence carried out in the name of religion by non-State groups must be addressed, an independent UN expert said on Monday in a report presented to the Human Rights Council.