Melanie Nathan, July 02, 2026 Emergency Appeal: Protecting LGBTQI+ Refugees Trapped by Xenophobia in South Africa For more than a decade, the African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) has provided humanitarian assistance, advocacy, and protection to LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers fleeing persecution across Africa. Many of those we serve have escaped imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, forced marriage, family rejection, and death threats because of their sexual orientatio

The African Human Rights Coalition responds to the U.S. Supreme Court's asylum ruling, warning that LGBTQI+ refugees fleeing persecution, criminalization, and violence face heightened risks when denied access to seek asylum at U.S. ports of entry.