Front Line Defenders released a report documenting a "sharp increase in violence" against international advocates for LGBTQ+ people and sex workers.The violence has corresponded with the current pandemic, with the report — entitled "LGBTIQ+ and Sex Worker Rights Defenders at Risk During COVID-19" — culled from interviews conducted between April and August 2020.
Researchers from the Dublin-based Front Line Defenders spoke to more than 50 human rights activists in 13 nations, including some known as hostile to LGBTQ+ people and sex workers, like Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, and El Salvador.