• LGBT rights in Russia - Wikipedia

    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Russiaface legal and social challenges not experienced by non-LGBT persons. Although same-sex sexual activity between consenting adults in private was decriminalized in 1993, homosexuality is disapproved of by most Russians, and same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are ineligible for the legal protections available to opposite-sex coupl…

  • Russian LGBT Activists Fear More Violence After Brutal ...

    2019/08/01 · Russian LGBT Activists Fear More Violence After Brutal Murder of Campaigner Human rights groups fear Yelena Grigoriyeva's killing will “normalize” violence against sexual minorities in the ...

  • Russia: Impunity for Anti-LGBT Violence | Human Rights …

    2016/01/19 · Human Rights Watch documented the stigma, harassment, and violence LGBT people in Russia face in their everyday lives. Most of those interviewed said that these problems intensified since 2013. In ...

  • The Fear of Being Gay in Russia - POLITICO Magazine

    2015/03/22 · Only a few months later, Russia saw its first regional anti-gay law passed in Ryazan, 200 miles east of Moscow. It was the first official sign that the Russian authorities would resist the LGBT ...

  • LGBT hate crimes double in Russia after ban on 'gay ...

    2017/11/21 · MOSCOW (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Russia have doubled in five years, researchers said on Tuesday, in the wake of a ...

  • Putting Russia’s homophobic violence on the map ...

    2017/05/17 · From what little data we have, it’s clear that homophobic violence in Russia is on the rise. Russia’s LGBT people are victims of ignorance and intolerance — yet the state won’t lift a ...

  • Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes Up in Russia, Watchdog Says - …

    2020/02/05 · Activists tie the violence against the LGBT community to Russia’s 2013 law banning “gay propaganda among minors” and anti-LGBT rhetoric on state television. The number of hate crimes against ...

  • Donation | Российская ЛГБТ-сеть

    2017/04/06 · The Russian LGBT Network is a team of dedicated people and organizations that promotes equal rights and respect for human dignity, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. Your donations will be used to support such programs as “Emergency support”, “The Hotline”, “Psychological support”, “Legal Support”. The emergency …

  • A Living Hell': Russia's 'Propaganda' Law Damaging …

    2018/12/12 · Knight said the law contributed to an intensification of harassment and violence against LGBT people in Russia. “The evidence we have in our new report shows the law actually ruined some ...

  • The Facts on LGBT Rights in Russia - Council for Global …

    LGBT advocates in Russia have reported numerous recent cases of LGBT hate violence, and the U.S. State Department’s annual Human Rights Report notes the prevalence of anti-LGBT skinhead violence, to which the police often

  • Russia: Anti-LGBT Law a Tool for Discrimination | Human ...

    2015/04/17 · Russia: Anti-LGBT Law a Tool for Discrimination An Anniversary Assessment Share Print Expand A man tries to stop LGBT rights activists from holding a flag during a protest in Moscow, Russia on May ...

  • Russia: Police detain protesters at unauthorised LGBT …

    2015/08/02 · St. Petersburg police broke up an unauthorised LGBT protest on the city's Palace Square, Sunday, after members of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) tried to disrupt the …

  • Russian gay propaganda law - Wikipedia

    The legislation reportedly led to an increase in violence against LGBT people in Russia. Russian LGBT Network chairman Igor Kochetkov argued that the law "[has] essentially legalised violence against LGBT people, because these groups of hooligans justify their actions with these laws," supported by their belief that gays and lesbians are "not …

  • Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence ...

    2017/12/01 · Russia failing to prevent homophobic violence, says Human Rights Watch Anti-gay harassment has risen since controversial law banning ‘homosexual propaganda’ was passed last year, report says ...

  • FEATURE-Masked men and murder: vigilantes terrorise ...

    2019/09/24 · The Russian LGBT Network, which offers legal aid to gay people, said only eight out of 64 cases of physical violence against LGBT+ people that it received in 2018 were investigated by the police.

  • Russia's first survey to find out the scale of LGBT …

    2018/08/06 · (1 Aug 2018) LEADIN: The first ever Russia-wide online survey about domestic violence in LGBT relationships has been launched. Rights groups believe that taboos …

  • A Brief History Of Russian Violence Against LGBTs / …

    2018/08/31 · Russia has never been considered a trailblazer for human rights issues, as this powerful PSA makes clear, but cases of shocking and brutal violence against the LGBT community in particular ...

  • Russian Investigation Found No LGBT People, Violence …

    2018/05/15 · A representative of Russia has told the United Nations that it has found no evidence of crimes against LGBT people in Chechnya — or even LGBT people in general. "The investigation showed that ...

  • Report: Anti-LGBT Violence Has Increased In Russia …

    2014/12/15 · Report: Anti-LGBT Violence Has Increased In Russia Since "Propaganda" Ban Vladimir Putin said earlier this month that Russia has been unfairly labeled as anti-LGBT. A new report from Human Rights Watch paints a …

  • Russia failing to prevent homophobic violence, says …

    2017/11/29 · Russia failing to prevent homophobic violence, says Human Rights Watch This article is more than 5 years old Anti-gay harassment has risen since controversial law banning ‘homosexual propaganda ...

  • LGBT rights in Russia | LGBT Info | Fandom

    LGBT Rights Laws around the world Rights by country Relationships Marriage Adoption Military service Anti-LGBT violence LGBT rights organizations LGBT rights opposition This box: view • talk • edit Russia has neither legislation against gay people nor anti-discrimination laws. Homosexuality was first decriminalised in 1917, re-criminalized in …

  • Murder, ‘gay hunters’ strike terror in Russia's LGBT ...

    2019/08/06 · Even though Russia decriminalised homosexuality in 1993, it remains a deeply homophobic society A rise in violence against gays has been seen in Russia since 2013, when the country passed a law ...

  • Political Violence, Inc. - Coda Story

    2019/02/10 · Political Violence, Inc. How attacks on Russia’s LGBT community are sub-contracted Text by Ilan Greenberg 18 January, 2016 St. Petersburg, Russia LGBT activists attacked in front of the State Duma in Moscow during protest ...

  • Russia's mixed messages on LGBT - BBC News

    2016/04/28 · But LGBT life in provincial Russia may well be becoming harsher. A thousand km (600 miles) east of Moscow, the gay scene in Samara is said to have dwindled , in the face …

  • WATCH: Report Finds Russian Police Ignore Anti-LGBT Violence

    2015/11/18 · "Violence experienced by LGBT people in Russia is unmistakably motivated by homophobia, but the authorities deliberately ignore that these are hate crimes and fail to protect victims,” said ...

  • Russia: Official Line on Homophobia | Pulitzer Center

    2017/10/02 · Being different in Russia is not celebrated, it is prosecuted. The country's LGBT community lives in constant fear. Until recently, there were only random attacks by religious zealots, but this year it became a government-led war.

  • LGBT rights | Amnesty International

    LGBTI advocates have overcome enormous challenges and risks to their own personal safety to call out abuses of the human rights of LGBTI people, and force changes to laws that discriminate against them.

  • Biden calls on Trump to raise anti-LGBT violence in …

    2017/04/14 · Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned reported anti-LGBT violence in the Russian republic of Chechnya and called on President Donald Trump's administration to raise the issue directly with ...

  • Putin tells Elton John Russia ‘unbiased’ toward LGBT community

    2019/07/10 · Russia — Yelena Klimova, a journalist who runs the online support group, Deti-404 for LGBT teenagers, was charged under Russia’s controversial law on promoting “gay propaganda” to minors. Experts say the ostensible desire to “protect children” has had the opposite effect.

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  • ‘Coming Out’ rally in St. Petersburg, Russia ends in violence ...

    2014/11/10 · ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Sixty-seven people were arrested Saturday at an LGBT event in St. Petersburg, Russia, as anti-gay protesters clashed with LGBT rights advocates, a police official told ...

  • Reports | Российская ЛГБТ-сеть

    In the course of the monitoring program implementation in 2016-2017 Russian LGBT Network has recorded 366 personal cases containing evidence of discrimination and violence towards LGBT people in Russia. Collected data during ...

  • Days After A Hit List For Gays And Lesbians Disappears, …

    2019/07/23 · Since then, LGBT-rights campaigners and hate-crime researchers have reported a notable uptick in violence and harassment against gays and lesbians, often from conservative activists, or those ...

  • The Role of the United Nations in Combatting …

    Page | 1 of 28 The Role of the United Nations in Combatting Discrimination and Violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex People A Programmatic Overview 19 June 2018 This paper provides a snapshot of

  • Rights Group Releases Video of LGBT Attacks in Russia ...

    2014/02/04 · LGBT people face stigma, harassment and violence in their everyday lives in Russia, and LGBT victims of violence and groups told Human Rights Watch that these problems intensified in 2013. Victims in cities

  • Russia Is The Real Guardian Of Human Rights, Say …

    2014/02/06 · Russia Is The Real Guardian Of Human Rights, Say Activists Fighting LGBT Advances "I would be very cautious [in saying] which country is more free, the United States or Russia," says an organizer of a global social conservative summit to be held at the Kremlin in September.

  • Hozier's 'Take Me To Church' Echoes Russian LGBT Violence ...

    2016/02/02 · Ireland's State noted that the video, directed by Brendan Canty, echoes the wave of violence currently plaguing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Russia. According to State, "Take Me To Church":

  • ANTI-GAY VIOLENCE ON THE RISE IN RUSSIA ...

    2014/02/04 · In the run up to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Human Rights Watch has reported a 'deteriorating situation of widespread and concerted abuse against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and activists' in Russia. LGBT victims of violence and groups have told Human Rights Watch that stigma, harassment, and violence …

  • CNN - An LGBT activist murdered in Russia had …

    2019/07/23 · (CNN)An LGBTQ rights activist who was murdered in St. Petersburg had received death threats and was named on a website urging vigilante violence, campaigners have said. Russia's Investigative ...

  • The Independent | US - Russian politician behind anti …

    2016/07/28 · A Russian politician who introduced the country’s anti-gay “propaganda” law has said she wants to decriminalise domestic violence, calling the current punishments "absurd". Yelena Mizulina ...

  • Why Russia's #MeToo Movement Has Struggled to Take …

    2019/08/12 · Does Russia need a #MeToo movement? The situation for women in Russia is getting worse, activists say. At least 40,000 women are affected by domestic violence each year, and at least 12,000 women ...

  • Q&A: Gay rights in Russia - BBC News

    2013/08/13 · No accurate figures for homophobic attacks in Russia are available but, according to Ilga-Europe's Bjoern van Roozendaal: "There is a worrying trend of violence targeting young people." Activists ...

  • Vladimir Putin: Russia Has No Problem With 'LGBT …

    2019/06/28 · LGBT activists take part in a May Day rally in Saint Petersburg on May 1, 2018. Being gay isn't a crime in Russia, but no specific laws protect non-heterosexuals from discrimination …

  • Russia blocks 'Saw-themed' website encouraging violence ...

    Russia has blocked access to a website that was named after and inspired by the horror franchise Saw. The website was used by homophobes and encouraged violence against the LGBTQ community. The website charged people 200 rubles, equivalent to US $3, to access its database and track down people who w

  • Majority in Russia See Domestic Violence as Serious …

    2020/03/30 · This helps explain why women in Russia (65%) are significantly more likely than men (50%) to think domestic violence is a serious problem. Women's and men's opinions do not differ by age. This suggests that domestic violence does not get a "pass" from any generation of Russians, despite the rising popularity of the "return to …

  • Russian gay propaganda law fuels anti-LGBT violence ...

    Russia has been accused of allowing a wave of violence against LGBT people, fuelled by the country's federal gay propaganda law. The 85-page report, License to Harm, is based on dozens of detailed interviews with LGBT people and activists in 16 cities across Russia who experienced attacks or aggressive harassment because of their sexual …

  • Taking A Closer Look at LGBT Discrimination in Russia - …

    2014/02/06 · Human Rights Watch released a report this week on LGBT violence in Russia, noting that there's not really enough reliable data to make a comparison between 2013's spate of attacks and those of ...

  • Russia: Sochi Games highlight homophobic violence | …

    LGBT people face stigma, harassment, and violence in their everyday lives in Russia, and LGBT victims of violence and groups told Human Rights Watch that these problems intensified in 2013 ...

  • LGBTの人々に対する暴力 - Wikipedia

    レズビアン、ゲイ、バイセクシャル、トランスジェンダー (LGBT)の 人々は、セクシュアリティや性同一性に対する嫌悪的な態度によって動機付けられた暴力に直面する可能性がある [1]。暴力は、同性愛行為(同性愛に関する法を参照)のための体罰を規定する法律を持つ国家や、脅迫、暴動 ...