By Melanie Nathan, November 08, 2025. Nov 08 2025, - An Open Letter to Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani - Now That You Are Elected — You Must Speak Out Dear Mayor Elect Mamdani, Now that you are about to hold the highest office in New York City, your voice carries global weight. That voice can no longer remain silent about the atrocities of the country of your birth, Uganda, a country whose passport you reportedly still hold, where you visit regularly, and where you recently celebr

by Melanie Nathan, Oct 31, 2025. On October 31, the Trump administration published its Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions (PD) in the Federal Register, which sets the refugee admissions ceiling at the historic, cruel and shameful low of only 7,500 people. The PD also prioritizes the resettlement of Afrikaners (white South Africans) - while turning its back on over 120,000 refugees who were already conditionally approved for resettlement as of January 20. The ind

By Melanie Nathan, Oct 24, 2025 When governments criminalize identity—whether via immigration policy or sexual orientation laws—they coerce people into the shadows to flee danger, yet the underground offers no safety at all—only a stopgap for immediate survival. Under Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns, thousands of immigrants, and even U.S. citizens of color, live under the constant threat of racial profiling, unlawful detentions, arbitrary arrests and deportation. Raids,

By Melanie Nathan, Oct 24, 2025.   This week, Ghana’s opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), took to national television to announce that the controversial bill known as the Proper Human Rights and Family Values Bill had mysteriously disappeared from Parliament. The bill had appeared on the official Order Paper (Parliament’s agenda) for debate—then suddenly vanished. The bill, commonly referred to as the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill (originall

True solidarity starts in Africa — confronting the laws, hate, and hypocrisy that still criminalize and kill our own - rendering boycott foolish, cruel and counter-productive. By Melanie Nathan, Oct 22, 2025 Johannesburg Pride, Africa’s oldest Pride celebration, is under attack, not from the usual homophobes or politicians, but from local activists. Several organizations are calling for a boycott of this year’s Pride because one of its sponsors, Amazon, is accused of supporti

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Melanie Nathan 🌍 A Global Emergency — And a Shared Responsibility As Americans debate their own culture wars—and as democracies across the world teeter—a quiet crisis continues to unfold across Africa, one that reflects our own. From Uganda to Ghana, LGBTQI+ people are being hunted, imprisoned, tortured, and silenced under so-called “morality” laws. But these laws are not home-grown. They build on colonial-era penal codes and are fueled by U.S.

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For Immediate Release — September 10, 2025 AHRC Statement on Mass Detentions at Hyundai’s Georgia Battery Project Enforcement of...

By Melanie Nathan, September 02, 2025. The West African country, Burkina Faso’s transitional parliament passed legislation outlawing...

By Melanie Nathan, 2025 Up to July 2025. Please find A collection of HRAPF reports over the years since the First Anti-Homosexuality Act...