Inter Parliamentary Union Votes to Ban LGBT Debate
Today the 138th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly voted. with 689 MPs against and 499 legislators voted for, the proposal to...
International Criminal Court Celebrates 20 years
July 2018 marked 20 years since the adoption of the Rome Statute, establishing the first permanent international criminal court with a...
India's Decriminalization of LGBTI People Gives Hope in Looming Kenyan Case
On Thursday 5th September, 2018, the Supreme Court of India issued a historical ruling reversing over 150 years of criminalization of the...
AHRC Statement On Indian Court Ruling to Decriminalize Homosexuality
Melanie Nathan: India’s Supreme Court has struck down section 377 of its Penal Code, decriminalizing homosexuality. A five-judge bench...
Statement by African HRC Condemning Malaysian Torture of Lesbians
Melanie Nathan, Executive Director, African HRC, in response to the Sharia Law action where 2 women were publicly canned in the State of...
Police Raid Party and Arrest 57 Suspected Gays in Nigeria
It was ONLY a PARTY! To Call it anything else and to make arrests pursuant to lies is pure persecution! Nigerian police reportedly...
Statement from African HRC on U.S. President Donald Trump's Dangerous South Africa Tweet
Statement from Melanie Nathan for African Human Rights Coalition Regarding Donald J. Trump's Tweet to Secretary Pompeo pursuant to an...
On the Passing of Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general and Nobel peace prize winner, died yesterday (Aug. 18) in Switzerland after a...
New U.S. Asylum Guidance Attempts to Undermine Access to Protection
New Guidance Attempts to Undermine Access to Refugee Protection San Francisco, CA (July 12, 2018) – Yesterday U.S. Citizenship and...
African HRC: Supreme Court Ruling on Muslim Travel Ban Will Reflect Shamefully in History
African Human Rights Coalition Statement on SCOTUS Muslim Ban Ruling: The Supreme Court’s decision this morning in Trump v. Hawaii...
