Rasha Younes, a senior researcher with the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, said the law’s passage “rubber-stamps Iraq’s appalling record of rights violations against LGBT people and is a serious blow to fundamental human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression and association, privacy, equality, and nondiscrimination.”
Harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law's passage in Iraq draws diplomatic backlash
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Younes said, noting that anti-LGBTQ laws remain in place and activists often face crackdowns by security forces.
Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized
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