AFRICAN
HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION

WE ENVISION A WORLD WHERE ALL PEOPLE ARE TREATED WITH RESPECT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ALIGN FOR ALL, EQUALLY.  IT IS TIME TO End PREJUDICE AND VIOLENCE against LGBTQI+ people around the world!

HUMANITARIAN 

AHRC is LGBTQI+ specific and refugee led in the emergency humanitarian response to forcibly displaced LGBTQI+ people. 

Emergency responses for safe shelter, food, medical, transport.

Refugee reception and orientation services. 

EDUCATION & ADVOCACY

LGBTQI people in Africa are targeted for violence and abuse due to their sexuality and gender identity with no state protections in countries that criminalize or demonize sexuality and gender identity.

 

AHRC platforms those with lived experience, provides case advocacy and African led discussions to decolonize SOGIESC.

 

AHRC advocates for routes, pipelines and durable solutions for those LGBTQI+ people who have been forcibly displaced by violence and discrimination.

AHRC educates about the laws and country conditions that impact LGBTQI+ people.

LEGAL

AHRC provides legal resources, including referrals to immigration attorneys. AHRC is a direct resource for country conditions reporting, providing expert witness testimony for LGBTQI+ individuals from African countries seeking asylum.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION:
AHRC works to prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflicts to build transformative and sustainable navigation and understanding of  SOGIESC in stigmatizing and unequal climates.