By Melanie Nathan - December 21, 2025. This essay is a call to rethink how LGBTQI+ funding is allocated in times of crisis, and to ensure that survival, not visibility, is treated as the first obligation of global solidarity. It is a call for partnerships from foundations, funders, donors and LGBTQI+ organizations. Its an urgent matter of life or death. A global humanitarian collapse is underway and LGBTQI+ people are being abandoned first. As U.S. foreign assistance is cut a

When Protection Is Denied Before It Is Heard: Across the current U.S. asylum landscape, individuals fleeing persecution are increasingly being sent to countries with which they have no legal, social, or historical connection —places they have never lived, where they have no community, and where they cannot safely exist. For LGBTQI+ asylum seekers, this practice is especially dangerous. It exposes people whose identities are criminalized to governments that neither recognize t

Please consider that, across the entire United States, African Human Rights Coalition  is the only known LGBTQI+ organization providing direct consistent food-distribution support to LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. Though we have provided these services since 2014, we have been doing this as consistent programing since 2019. We have one partner for our program for one such country - Safe Place International - which has been helping by picking up 50% of the cos

Burkina Faso: Raises Alarming Human Rights Concerns By Melanie Nathan, Dec 02, 2025. The African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) has received confirmation of a case in Burkina Faso in which a foreign national was convicted under the country’s newly enacted anti-LGBTQ provisions. According to publicly available information released by the Burkina Faso Ministry of Justice, the individual identified as K.M. was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment, a 2,000,000 CFA franc fine, and