Enrique Anarte Lazo

Proposed legislation to restrict the rights of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender in Ghana undermines all citizens' rights, a popular Ghanaian musician and LGBTQ+ ally said.

The bill, which was resubmitted to parliament in February after the former president did not sign it into law before his term ended, would toughen existing colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex relations.

Six months after U.S. President Donald Trump slashed funds for HIV prevention across the world, health advocates say decades of progress against the virus are at stake and millions of lives could be lost.

After freezing all U.S. foreign aid in January, the Trump administration issued a waiver the following month that allowed the two-decade-old President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to resume funding "life-saving" services and part of existing HIV prevention efforts.

U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign aid cuts have had a severe impact on HIV prevention efforts worldwide, said health experts who feared new infections might already be surging and millions more could die of AIDS as a result.

A July report by UNAIDS said that if the Trump administration's HIV cuts remain permanent, there could be six million extra infections and four million more deaths by 2029.

Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that legalised gay marriage, the White House is reversing a raft of LGBTQ+ rights and Republicans in at least six states are scrambling to ban same-sex weddings.

LGBTQ+ advocates say the right to marry a person of the same sex could be at risk, should judges vote to overturn the Supreme Court's historic 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

Pride marches are increasingly targeted by right-wing extremists and neo-Nazi protesters in Germany, with LGBTQ+ activists blaming the rise of the far-right and anti-LGBTQ+ voices in politics.

Germany is ranked among the highest in Europe for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights by ILGA World, a worldwide federation of organisations campaigning on such issues.

Indonesia's parliament is debating a bill to ban LGBTQ+ content online which, if passed, could lead to job losses in the media and social media industries, while also restricting the community's access to specialised services such as health.

The third-largest democracy in the world is a big market for digital platforms with 143 million active social media users, more than half of its population. While LGBTQ+ visibility on social media has increased in Indonesia over the past few years, activists say digital threats are on the rise.

Spooked by President Donald Trump's crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), some corporate sponsors have shunned Pride marches across the United States this year, and European LGBTQ+ campaigners say they are also taking a hit.

Pride organisers from Greece and Bulgaria, to Estonia and Denmark told Context they had also lost financial support, at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly under attack across the continent.

While President Donald Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, Spain is implementing what it says is the world's most ambitious laws to protect LGBTQ+ people at work.

Spain's centre-left government issued a decree in October requiring companies to protect LGBTQ+ workers, after the country's parliament passed a broad "real equality" law advancing LGBTQ+ rights in 2023.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Russians say they live in fear of discrimination or worse at work, in schools and at medical centres, according to a survey released this week. 

The largest ever survey of LGBTQ+ communities was carried out by ComingOut and the Sphere Foundation, Russian rights groups supporting LGBTQ+ people in the country and abroad, and polled more than 6,400 people from Moscow to Russia's Far East. 

U.S. states are on track to introduce a record number of bills restricting LGBTQ+ rights this year, with conservatives targeting hot topics from Pride flags to bathroom bans.

First in the firing line among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans are trans rights, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).