How supportive is the 2026 World Cup to LGBT+ people worldwide?
The Human Dignity Trust reports that nearly a quarter of participating countries maintain laws criminalising consensual same-sex intimacy
One in three countries still criminalises same-sex intimacy – but justice is possible, says Human Dignity Trust
HDT launches #DoubleYourPride campaign
Why Lesbian Visibility Week matters
HDT partners and LGBT+ human rights activists, Charrice Talbert and Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, share their personal perspectives
Senegal increases penalty for consensual same-sex intimacy
Maximum prison term doubles from five to ten years; new offences against the ‘glorification’ and ‘financing’ of same-sex intimacy
Commonwealth Day 2026: Criminalisation of same-sex intimacy harms LGBT people in over half of the Commonwealth
Governments must ‘accelerate action’ to eradicate discriminatory laws, says HDT
From 1533 to 2026 — a history of LGBT criminalisation
Human Dignity Trust’s online timeline details 500 years of outlawing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
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