The government has been urged to stop supporting programmes and rhetoric that suggests LGBT people should be “rehabilitated” or “cured”, following the launch of a report today on anti-LGBT conversion practices, discrimination and violence in Malaysia.

The report, which was prepared by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Justice for Sisters, asserts that government officials have fostered a hostile climate for LGBT people, who face discrimination and punishment due to their sexual orientation or gender identity.

“Malaysia’s current rehabilitation and criminalisation approaches to LGBT people are based...