Iraqi Kurdis LGBT rights activist Zhiar Ali s...

Lebanon faces escalating violence and mounting displacement as Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah rocket attacks intensify ahead of planned US-backed talks in Washington on April 14.I speak with Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame, who says Hezbollah disarmament by force is an ...  Show more

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” as the old adage goes — a logic Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, put into practice by offering his military’s expertise in countering Iranian drones to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates during a regional ...  Show more

<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Earlier this week the UN Security Council did something it's never done before: it held a meeting specifically focusing on violence directed against LGBT people. The council called two witn ...

Syrian born reporter Lina Sinjab presents a special series from Assignment’s award winning archive on the ten years of civil war in her country.This week Chloe Hadjimatheou tells the astonishing story of a group of young men from Raqqa, Syria, who chose to resist the so-called Is ...  Show more

Violences, arrestations, thérapies de conversion, rejets des membres de leur famille… En Ouganda, déjà considéré comme l’un des pays les plus répressifs envers la communauté LGBT, le Parlement a validé le 2 mai 2023 une proposition de loi anti-homosexualité, allant jusqu’à la pei ...  Show more

New laws are being passed across Poland taking aim at the LGBT community. They’ve been called “LGBT free zones” as a shorthand. While they don’t necessarily mean that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are being thrown into prison, they are having a chilling effect on ...  Show more