Lives Lost Transgender Day of Remembrance TDOR - 2018
The Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual event that started in 1998 after the killing of Rita Hester, a transgender African...
African HRC Statement on Tanzanian Human Rights Abuses of LGBTI People
Statement by Melanie Nathan, Executive Director for African Human Rights Coalition: African Human rights Coalition vehemently condemns...
African HRC Condemns Trump Threat to Asylum Seekers
VIA CNN: President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed he would sign an executive order "next week" aimed at restricting US asylum rules, as...
AHRC Statement on the Anti-Semitic Massacre in Pittsburgh
On this Sabbath day Jews were brutally gunned down in their place of worship, at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,...
African HRC Statement in Solidarity with Trans Community
Trans people in the United Sates have responded to the Trump threat to tighten the definition of gender as revealed by the New York Times...
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...
