orientation and gender identity. These violations include murder, rape, torture, death threats, extortion, and imprisonment, as well as loss of employment, housing, access to health care, and other forms of societal stigma and discrimination. The report further documents LGBTI-specific restrictions on basic freedoms of assembly, press, and speech in every region of the world. (6) In Jamaica and other countries, discrimination against LGBTI people, including corrective rape of lesbian women, occurs all too frequently and with relative impunity. (7) In 2013, the Russian Duma passed a law banning so-called homosexual propaganda , which effectively makes it a crime to publicly support LGBTI equality or even discuss homosexuality. This pernicious law is the basis for similar so-called antipropaganda legislation in countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus. (8) In December 2013, the Government of Nigeria adopted a law that further criminalized same-sex relations and support for LGBTI people, endangering neighbors, friends, doctors, and landlords of LGBTI people. (9) Several countries in South Asia continue to have draconian laws that criminalize homosexual acts, which place LGBTI people in danger and undermine their ability to live free from persecution. (10) In February 2014, the Government of Uganda adopted a law making aggravated homosexuality a crime punishable with life imprisonment and concurrently, the Government of Uganda also passed laws severely limiting the basic freedoms of speech and assembly for LGBTI citizens. While the Constitutional Court overturned the Anti-Homosexuality Act on a technicality in August 2014, LGBTI Ugandans continue to be subjected to discrimination and violence, and their government has in recent years forcibly shut down even private Pride celebrations in Kampala. (11) On April 1, 2017, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that the government of the autonomous republic of Chechnya had been arresting, detaining, and