In 2024, HRW documented what it means if trans people don't have access to correct identity documents: harassment, humiliation, barriers to employment and healthcare.
Our recommendations show how the Nepal government can create fair and non-discriminatory access to legal gender recognition.
Trans people, like everyone, have the right of recognition before the law. Without identity documents, this is not possible.
Nepal has a proud history of protecting the rights of LGBT people. Now access to legal gender recognition has stalled - the new government should ensure that procedures are in place so that all people have identity documents that correspond to their gender identity.
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Nepal has a proud history of protecting the rights of LGBT people. Now access to legal gender recognition has stalled.
The new government should put procedures in place to ensure that all people can have identity documents that correspond to their gender identity.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
Alex Müller
Alex Müller
Alex Müller
The SAVE America Act would create new barriers to voting for millions of Americans — disproportionately impacting women, trans people, and voters of color.
The Senate should reject the bill!
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A Senegal court has sentenced a man to 6 years in jail for consensual same-sex acts, the first conviction under the new law.
This prison sentence is unlawful under international law. Senegal is bound by treaty obligations that protect every person’s right to dignity, privacy and equality.
Nepali authorities have stopped processing applications for transgender people to change their legal gender on identity documents, regressing on years of progress and undermining the fundamental right...
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Alex Müller
Alex Müller
Susanne Bergsten Park
Idaho’s bathroom ban doesn’t just threaten prison time. It fuels suspicion, reporting, and everyday policing of trans people’s existence.
That’s not protection. It’s persecution. apnews.com/article/idah...
Israeli forces have expanded ground operations in southern Lebanon after indicating an intent to forcibly displace residents, destroy civilian homes and conduct strikes that could target civilians.
NEW: Iranian forces appear to have deliberately targeted at least two civilian commercial ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz on March 11, 2026, which would amount to war crimes.
The attacks may also contribute to significant global cost increases.
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