by admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Featured, Human Rights, News, Politics
In the United States, more than 8 percent of prisoners are housed in privately owned prisons, run for profit. CoreCivic (80,000 beds in 65 facilities) and the GEO Group (49,000 beds in 57 facilities) dominate the industry, making around a combined $3.5 billion a year....
by admin | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured, Human Rights, Intersex, Politics, trans, Transgender
While no one is having a good time in prison, for transgender women and men it is a particularly grueling ordeal. More than half of trans women in California prisons (59%) reported some manner of sexual assault, according to a 2007 research study. Trans women in...
by admin | Aug 19, 2020 | Equality, Featured, Human Rights, International, LGBT Youth, LGBTQ, News, Sexuality
Conversion Therapy, or therapy meant to alter one’s sexual orientation or gender identity, is a so-called treatment inflicted on LGBT people to allegedly make them straight and/or cisgender. Practitioners over the years have used techniques like aversion therapy...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | gay, homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQ, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Sexuality
Mohamad al-Bokari fled Yemen last year after threats were made to his life over his sexuality. Yemen criminalizes consensual sexual activity, with penalties ranging from whipping and prison (if unmarried) to death (if either man is married to a woman). Unfortunately,...
by admin | Jul 22, 2020 | Equality, homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Politics, Power LGBT
In 2019 and 2020, a large number of Polish towns have declared themselves “LGBT-Free” zones, possibly as many as a third of all towns and cities in the country. Under their current leader, Catholic Andrzej Duda, Poland has become increasingly conservative and hostile...
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | #Russia, Bisexual, Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Transgender
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow hung a pride flag from its building in the last week of June 2020, and that’s newsworthy. It’s newsworthy because flying the pride flag is barely legal in Russia. In 2013, President Putin signed a law called “for the Purpose of Protecting...
