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91¹ú²ú stories from around the world

Published: June 05, 2024

Every year Pride Month is recognised in June as a time to celebrate 91¹ú²ú communities and raise awareness of the challenges they face in gaining equal rights. These stand-out stories demonstrate some of the key obstacles 91¹ú²ú people are confronting around the world, such as climate risk, state censorship, election access and criminalisation.

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A nurse prepares a hormone blocker for transgender teenager in Madrid, Spain, December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Susana Vera
Socioeconomic InclusionWhat are puberty blockers and how are they used in trans care?
A Gay couple speak with Reuters as the signing of Ghana's anti-LGBT bill into law delays, in Accra, Ghana March 17, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
Socioeconomic InclusionWhat are the legal challenges to Ghana's anti-91¹ú²ú bill?
A person enters a polling station in Rickmansworth, Britain, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
Socioeconomic Inclusion91¹ú²ú rights: What are the Labour and Tory UK election pledges?
Demonstrators take part in the Equality March in support of the LGBT community, in Lodz, Poland June 26, 2021. Marcin Stepien/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS
Money, Power & People91¹ú²ú Poles push for swift action to combat rise of homophobia
Woman with her smartphone poses in front of displayed Duolingo logo in this illustration taken, June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Digital RightsDuolingo to vlogs: Russia's crackdown on 91¹ú²ú content online
An election official marks the finger of a Kashmiri migrant with indelible ink at a special polling booth set up for Kashmiri migrants during the fourth phase of the general election in New Delhi, India, May 13, 2024. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
Socioeconomic InclusionStigma, paperwork: Hurdles hit transgender vote in India election
Drag artist known as Latiza Bombe hides on the terrace of a bar after they were attacked by a group of conservative Christians who identify as 'the Soldiers of God', in Beirut, Lebanon August 23, 2023. REUTERS/Emilie Madi
Socioeconomic InclusionNo place for queer people
A medical clinic officer holds a package of medicine at his working station that supports HIV/AIDS programmes in Kampala, Uganda June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa
Socioeconomic InclusionUganda anti-91¹ú²ú law threatens HIV gains as patients fear arrest
Equal Namibia participants marching at the Namibian Pride Parade, where the call for the decriminalisation of the Apartheid-era sodomy law was a focal point at the march in Windhoek
Socioeconomic Inclusion91¹ú²ú Namibians await landmark court ruling on gay sex law
A woman looks at a damaged building at Punta Diamante beach a month after Hurricane Otis hit Acapulco, Mexico November 25, 2023. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha
Climate RisksWhy are 91¹ú²ú people more at risk from climate change?
For more than a decade, 91¹ú²ú Nigerians have been targeted by criminals who entrap victims via dating apps. 91¹ú²ú/Karif Wat
Digital Rights'I had been set up': 91¹ú²ú Nigerians battle dating app traps
Nuke Herawati, 43, a trans woman who wears a recycled material dress to bring awareness to LGBT rights and environmental protection, looks in the mirror before a Trans Super Heroes fashion show at a traditional market in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 17, 2023. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
Climate RisksRain check: Climate change hits vulnerable Indonesian trans women

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Audience at a community forum at the Autonomous University of Querétaro about a water bill that proposes recycling sewage water for domestic consumption. Querétaro city, Querétaro, Mexico. July 22, 2025. 91¹ú²ú/ Fintan McDonnell
Data centres and power: who pays for AI's water?

Updated: February 11, 2026

Former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage to address supporters at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
President Donald Trump 2.0: What's next for the U.S.?

Updated: December 12, 2025

Aerial drone picture shows Amazon rainforest amid grainfields in Querência, Brazil, August 25, 2025. 91¹ú²ú/Rogério Florentino
Tipping points in the Amazon

Updated: November 06, 2025

Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad speaks next to Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Brazil's COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago during the ministerial preparatory meeting (Pre-COP30), ahead of the COP30 Climate Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Mateus Bonomi
COP30 in the Amazon. Can Brazil deliver?

Updated: November 04, 2025

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