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- Bhutan: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Statement - UPR Human Rights Council 13th Session (pdf)
- India: Obama's chief adviser on HIV/AIDS backs India's moves on homosexuality
- Nepal: Eight transgenders join political party, UML
- India: Opposition grows to India gay sex ruling
- India: Punjab creates 'transgender' job category for eunuchs
- Malaysia: 19 men arrested at two raids in Penang
- China: Chinese police shut down country's first gay pageant
- Nepal: Transsexual woman makes foray into Nepali politics
- South Asia: Nepal set the precedent in embracing its LGBT citizens. India is slowly following. But what of our neighbours Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh?
- China: State newspaper splashes nation's 'first gay marriage' on front page
- Pakistan: Transvestites to get distinct gender to ensure rights
- Philippines: Supreme Court stops Commission on Elections from disqualifying LGBT group Ang Ladlad from party-list elections
- Philippines: Same-sex marriage criminalized under bill
- China: Govt-backed gay bar opens after postponement
- Hong Kong: Domestic violence law to cover gay partners after year-long battle
- India: Government agency proposes ban on gay adoptions
- Nepal: IGLHRC and Lambda Legal Consulting with Nepali Government on LGBTI Rights Protections
- Philippines: Comelec rejects gay party Ang Ladlad's appeal
- China: China city government opens gay bar to fight AIDS
- China: Public tolerance needed for Chinese gays to tackle AIDS; Gov't funded gay bar delays opening due to discrimination
- India: 377 verdict creates space for police sensitization trainings, manufacturing of condoms specifically for MSM, and other interventions
- Iran: Twelve Men Face Execution for Sodomy in Iran; For first time, activist confirms queer organizing on multiple university campuses
- Iran: Case of Gay Man Raped by State-Sponsored Basiji Militias Exposed by Committee of Human Rights Reporters
- Maldives: Seven men arrested for engaging in homosexual activity
- India: Third gender gets own identity in voter rolls
- Nepal: Government readies to recognise third gender voters
- Philippines: Ang Ladlad Party, representing LGBT individuals, is rejected for registration on grounds of "immorality"
- Iran: Iran prepares to execute a young man accused of sodomy
- Malaysia: Court throws out Anwar 'gay' lawsuit
- Nepal: Nepal eyes sexual minorities for tourism
- Iran: Rahim Mohammadi Executed in Iran fora Homosexual Act - Lavat
- India: Urban poor stand up for transgenders
- Iran: Iran may allow trans marriage
- Nepal: Editorial: Ensuring Rights Of Sexual Minorities
- India: Health Ministry proposes a campaign to destigmatise gay and lesbian relationships
- China: Gay male sex worker arrested and charged with knowingly exposing his clients to HIV
- India: Government to accept gay sex ruling: report
- Iran: Gay Iranians face stark decisions, slim hopes in election unrest
- Japan: Political shift gives hope to gays
- Singapore: Local lawyer discusses LGBT media and censorship in Singapore
- India: Alternative Law Forum announces new primer on the 377 decision, The Right that Dares to Speak its Name
- Malaysia: Rethinking Malaysia’s sodomy laws
- India: Supreme Court declines to stay High Court verdict on Section 377
- India: Home Minister says government unlikely to challenge gay law verdict
- Pakistan: Supreme Court orders equal benefits for transgenderpeople
- India:Full text of Delhi High Court's on S.377 now available online
- India: Country’s Highest Court to Hear Astrologer’s Anti-Gay Sex Petition
- India: 135 criminal cases against gays and eunuchs still pending pertaining to unnatural sex under S.377
- Singapore: Law Minister states that Singapore will not follow India's example in repealing its own anti-gay 377
- India: Delhi High Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban
- India: A look back at the legal strategy: "The long road of the S.377 case"
- Nepal: LGBT Progress in New Republic: A Discussion with the country's first openly gay MP
- China: Government appears to back down over gay-ban internet filtering
- India: Law Minister signals rethink on anti-gay law
- India:Same-sex couple marries, faces prosecution by state government (video)
- Nepal: Sexual minorities, third gender to form own political party
- China: After Shanghai Pride, State media praises the city's gays
- South Korea: "Legal trans-formation": South Korea's trans population is winning rights in the nation's courts
- Asia: 377 and the Unnatural Afterlife of British Colonialism in Asia
- India: Decriminalise homosexuality, gay people ask political parties before elections
- India: Eunuchs avoid polls over 'third sex' dilemma
- India: Mumbai NGO discusses queer issues with major parties contesting upcoming national elections (press release) (pdf)
- Japan: Government allows its citizens same-sex marriage abroad
- India: Move on toilets for transgenders sparks off debate
- Philippines: Ban on gays in military comes to an end
- Hong Kong: MSM Given High Priority in HIV Prevention Strategy, Hong Kong Official Says
- Singapore: 6 men charged in teen sex case
- India: Eunuchs move Supreme Court seeking quota in jobs
- Nepal: Nepal Supreme Court approves same-sex marriage
- India: Telling our secrets: Sex between men is illegal in India, putting them at high risk of contracting HIV
- India: LGBT Indians represent "millions of untapped votes" says Nepal's gay MP
- India: 377 arguments, 4 voices
- India: Indian Law Criminalizing Homosexuality Remains 'Major Obstacle' in Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Piot Says
- India: U.N. Calls on India To Decriminalize Homosexuality
- Cambodia: Ladyboys face crackdown: Gay male prostitutes have solicited on Pursat Bridge for a decade, but a police crackdown has forced them into more dangerous parts of town
- India: Towards decriminalization of a sexual choice
- India: Gay sex: Sort out differences, PM tells Patil, Ramadoss
- Iran: IGLHRC Welcomes Moratorium on the Death Penalty for Juveniles (pdf)
- India: Minister of Health: Wake up to global reality on gays
- India: Govt tells HC to ignore Health Minister's views on allowing gay sex
- India: NDTV programming features issues surrounding homosexuality:
- India: Govt puts it straight: It's criminal to be gay
- Iran: Iranian President attacks US acceptance of homosexuality
- Singapore: Stop making a mockery of rule of law: Let's accept gays
- Gays have no legal rights: ministry
- First Civil Party Application before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Gender-Based Violence under the Khmer Rouge Regime (pdf)
- Asian health officials vow to intensify HIV-prevention campaign
- Outdoor gay events permitted from Sept: Singapore authorities
- Gays and democracy (The Times of India)
- Anti-gay law: will it go?
- Health Minister stresses need to scrap Section 377
- Iran's changing attitude to HIV/AIDS (video)
- India's fight against AIDS to focus on gays
- India's Anti-Gay Law Set for Biggest Court Challenge
- Islamic officials bust transvestites gala in Malaysia
- New Sodomy Charge for Malaysian Opposition Figure
- Health and Rights: Human Rights and Intervention Programs for Males Who Have Sex with Males, Southeast Asia and East Asia (pdf)
- Know Your Rights – India (pdf)
