INCLUSION

CHALLENGING EXCLUSION, CLAIMING RIGHTS

Cuba: why flee paradise?

Intensifying repression and economic crunch are driving an unprecedented exodus from the ailing one-party state

Mexico: last state joins the rainbow wave

Same-sex marriage legal throughout Mexico following decision by Tamaulipas state legislature

Spain: a victory in the struggle against sexual violence

The country’s first law on sexual consent comes after years of feminist demands for a new approach to gender-based violence

Serbia: LGBTQI+ people the latest target of repression

Anti-rights groups find dual inspiration in US conservative Christians and Russian nationalists

Tunisia: a rare moment of LGBTQI+ visibility

Post-pandemic comeback of LGBTQI+ film festival offers hope in restrictive environment

NORTHERN AFRICA

Iran: could women protesters bring down the theocracy?

Death of woman detained for ‘improper hijab’ triggers widespread protests against patriarchal regime

Another breakthrough for LGBTQI+ rights in the Caribbean

Saint Kitts and Nevis latest country to decriminalise same-sex relations

Sudan: women’s rights in the military’s firing line

Junta seeking to reverse progress made following 2019 revolution

Iran’s women the renewed targets of theocratic repression

Government responds to growing social unrest by crushing dissent and diverting attention

India: outrage as gang rapists walk free

Case exemplifies systematic denial of Indian women’s rights and multiple layers of exclusion faced by Muslim women