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Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism
Region(s): Southwest Asia and North Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, United Nations
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism
Region(s): Myanmar
… searched. They asked who are the leaders, what is this organization? That’s why we can’t do demonstration with LGBT flags, we don’t use make-up, no color. But we gather, keep going to fight for CDM. We do CDM in the mornings, marching from behind. At night, we run away to different houses for safety.” “We usually do LGBTQ Pride parades from February 15-28. This time we are doing protest marches and …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism, Legal Discrimination
Region(s): Russia
… figuring that she would never forgive herself for not getting involved if the conference did come off – which, she thought, it wouldn’t. If it did, we knew it would be earth-shattering. … time in the Soviet Union seemed to develop an affinity bordering on obsession that we had come to call “catching the bug.” In the manipulative tradition of good organizing, Julie … financial matters and logistics, received free accommodations and a 100-rouble – or about $3 – per diem.) On the first day of the conference we were greeted by our team of ten …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism, Legal Discrimination, Law & Policy
Region(s): Europe and Central Asia, Poland
Content Type(s): Insight
Region(s): Southwest Asia and North Africa, Egypt
… and North Africa Egypt Outright International was saddened to hear the news of Sarah Hegazi, a fearless, pioneering queer and feminist Egyptian activist, taking her life on Saturday, 13 June … of severe government persecution after exercising her basic right of freedom of expression - she raised the rainbow flag in Cairo during the Mashrou’ Leila concert in 2017. This expression of existence and solidarity resulted in Sarah being imprisoned for three months, including in solitary confinement. Due to the severity of the psychological and …