Eyesight saved, battered LGBTI Ugandan thanks supporters
Friends, LGBTI activists and journalists rallied behind a Ugandan trans woman last month, raising enough money to pay…
African Commission to promote LGBTI interests
The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights recently adopted a historic multilateral agreement, along with 25 nations, the EU,…
Medical centre stripped bare in Douala, Cameroon
The Empower Medical Centre run by Aids Acodev Cameroon in Douala, is again object of criminal thievery. Douala,…
Cameroon: Accuser relents, but police won’t free alleged gay man
By Erin Royal Brokovitch The author of this article is an activist for LGBT rights in Cameroon who…
Gambia: Life Sentence for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’
We are republishing the entire news release from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on the worsening situation for…
Exporting hate from Canada to Tanzania, part 2
A Toronto, Ontario, Canada woman, just returned from Tanzania, attended and heard the anti-gay keynote address delivered…
UNHCHR alarmed at LGBT arrests, detentions in Gambia
Today, the Office of the recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, issued…
New fund aims to help Iranian LGBT community
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has launched a fund aimed at supporting the emerging…
Gambia must stop wave of homophobic arrests and torture
Editor’s Note: Amnesty International issued this important news release on the Gambia on 18 November 2014. We republish a…
Exposing persecution of LGBT individuals in Iraq
Editor’s Note: We are re-publishing here today’s press release from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) announcing the…