By Melanie Nathan, Feb 24, 2025 Police in northwestern Uganda have arrested two women in their 20's after neighbors reported seeing them kissing in public. The pair has been detained since February 18 without legal representation under Uganda’s 2023 Anti‑Homosexuality Act, a law with penalties ranging from life imprisonment to the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality." According to police, neighbors accused the women of "practicing homosexuality" and even took photos

By Melanie Nathan, Feb 20, 2026 Anti-LGBTQ Bill Formally Introduced to Ghana’s Parliament Following First Reading and Speaker’s Directive ... The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill was formally introduced to the Parliament of Ghana after undergoing its First Reading during the House’s sitting on Tuesday, 17 February 2026. At the sitting, the First Deputy Speaker, Bernard Ahiafor, referred the bill to the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamenta

AHRC STAFF FEB 18, 2026 Most importantly - however you read this memo- please check in with your agency or a legal advisor to ensure your status is protected, and before you take any steps with DHS. Do not rely on word of friends or non professionals. Also AHRC is issuing an advisory for asylum seekers and refugees - any one not in possession of a greencard or citizenship to consult with a lawyer or immigration clinic before doing any travel - which includes domestic travel

Statement from African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) January 30, 2026 Melanie Nathan Commissionermnathan@gmail.com African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) unequivocally condemns the arrest of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for doing nothing more than reporting the news. These arrests are a direct assault on the U.S. Constitution and a dangerous strike against the very foundation of our democracy. Journalists are the public’s eyes and ears. Their role is to document, q

AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION (AHRC) — STATEMENT - January 26, 2026 When a civil immigration system starts leaving bodies in the streets, something has gone catastrophically wrong. It is enough! African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) extends heartfelt condolences to families, friends, colleagues, and communities grieving loved ones, and also mourns the lives taken and shattered by recent ICE and Border Patrol operations in Minnesota and across the United States. We stand in

Lest we forget—especially today—that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an authentic Nobel Peace Prize laureate, accepting the award on December 10, 1964. He not only met the standard for earning it; for the four years of his life that followed, he led with such moral stature, courage, and consequence that no prize yet exists to measure what he accomplished. In his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the award on behalf of the entire

Structural Violence Against LBQ Women Across African Contexts , From Home to Hostile Host: Structural Violence Against LBQ Women Across African Contexts , authored by Melanie Nathan , is a new African Human Rights Coalition report examining how lesbian, bisexual, and queer women experience systematic violence that begins within families and communities and continues through displacement, detention, and so-called host countries. Drawing on AHRC’s long-standing documentation,

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