1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Greater Leadership Overseas for the Benefit of Equality Act of 2018 or the GLOBE Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The norms of good governance, human rights protections, and the rule of law have been violated unconscionably with respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) peoples in an overwhelming majority of countries around the world, where LGBTI people face violence, hatred, bigotry and discrimination because of who they are and whom they love. (2) In 75 countries, or almost 40 percent of the world, same-sex relations and relationships are criminalized. These include Nigeria, Egypt, and Uganda, among others. Homosexuality is punishable by death in at least 8 countries. Many countries also criminalize or otherwise prohibit cross-dressing and gender-affirming treatments for transgender individuals. (3) Criminalizing LGBTI status or conduct is at the base of political, social and economic injustice toward LGBTI individuals in many countries. (4) The World Bank has begun to measure the macro-economic costs of criminal laws targeting LGBTI individuals through lost productivity, detrimental health outcomes and violence, as a step toward mitigating those costs. (5) Violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity are documented in the Department of State’s annual Country Human Rights Reports to Congress. These reports continue to show a clear pattern of human rights violations in every region of the world based on sexual orientation and gender identity. (6) These violations include murder, rape, torture, death threats, extortion, and imprisonment, in many cases with the complicity of governing officials. In the Russian autonomous region of Chechnya, Chechen authorities have been found directly complicit in the round-up, torture, and murders of LGBTI men. In Indonesia, public humiliation and punishment of gay men has been carried out. In Jamaica, lesbian women have been subjected to so-called