'Brutal, grotesque' violence overshadows progress on LGBT equality - UN
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Progress towards giving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people legal equality has been overshadowed by "brutal" and "grotesque" homophobic and transphobic violence which often goes unreported and unpunished, according to the United Nations.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands injured in recent years, in violence that included knife attacks, anal rape and genital mutilation, as well as stoning and dismemberment, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a report.
"Violence motivated by homophobia and transphobia is often particularly brutal, and in some instances characterized by levels of cruelty exceeding that of other hate crimes," Hussein said in the report.
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More than 1,700 transgender people were murdered in 62 countries between 2008 and 2014, equivalent to a killing every two days, according to The Trans Murder Monitoring project, which is coordinated by LGBT rights group Transgender Europe.
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