Nigeria: 8 touching personal stories of human rights violations
The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs), through its “Human, Not Number” advocacy project, has highlighted eight touching cases…
65 groups protest Tanzania repression, LGBT arrests
A total of 65 civil society groups have challenged the government of Tanzania over “the worrying decline in respect…
Nigerian official about LGBT persecution: I know nothing
Prominent Nigerian official Babatunde Fashola claimed ignorance last month as a tactic for avoiding uncomfortable questions about Nigeria’s…
Us vs. them (Caribbean): ‘If they only knew …’
First of two articles about the challenge of breaking through emotional barriers that people erect between themselves and…
Cameroon: Human Rights Defenders Day proposed for July 15th
We publish the call to associations and peers in the struggle for human rights and in particular for…
Xenophobia rising in South Africa
Editorial: Speak out and denounce the xenophobia rising in South Africa. We all need to speak out…
Jamaican lesbian activist singled out by Obama
Hundreds of my dear friends, family members, and acquaintances, sent me warm and heartfelt birthday wishes yesterday. But,…
Asia and Pacific road-map to LGBTI rights
The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF), the leading regional human rights organisation in the…
Living Dangerously: What It’s Like to Be Gay in Iran
The following article was originally published in Vocativ. It is reproduced here entirely without any editing, other than…
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…