Tag: Refugees
Report: Hundreds of LGBTI refugees still at risk in Kenyan refugee camps
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Amnesty International and Kenya's non-governmental Na [...]
A year of progress on global LGBTQ rights, but so much remains to do
COMMENTARY: U.S. support of worldwide LGBTQ rights during the first year of the Biden administration led to "significant progress" but "there is far t [...]
Report pleads: Improve grim living conditions of LGBT refugees in Kenya
A new report highlights the difficult living conditions faced by hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. [...]
Two desperate Cameroon refugees’ dangerous trek toward Europe
By the hundreds, gay refugees travel north each year from West and Central Africa in search of the happiness that their home countries deny them becau [...]
At Kakuma Camp, Kenya offers to guard LGBTQ+ refugees, but …
Officials of Kenya's refugee agency promised to deploy guards to protect LGBTQ+ refugees at Kakuma Refugee Camp after a meeting on Feb. 19 at which re [...]
Plea to U.N. agency: Save LGBTQ refugees from violent Kakuma Camp
Two LGBTQ advocacy organisations have called on the UN Refugee Agency to protect LGBTQ refugees experiencing violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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Dutch claim: Criminals help Ugandan asylum seekers appear gay
Immigration officials in the Netherlands say a criminal network has been charging Ugandan refugees about 2,500 euros ($3,000) to help them qualify for [...]
Victimized gay couple flees Cameroon, hopes to reach Europe
Juk and Mike are two young gay men who decided that exile was preferable to continuing to endure anti-gay violence, hostility and discrimination in Ca [...]
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"Nigerian’s fund drive seeks help for LGBT asylum seekers in U.K.")
Nigerian’s fund drive seeks help for LGBT asylum seekers in U.K.
A U.K-based gay Nigerian, Dan Yomi, has teamed up with U.K-based NGOs to launch a fundraiser aimed at benefiting LGBTQ+ Africans seeking asylum in the [...]
Gay refugees in Kenya: Repeatedly attacked, unable to leave
On Christmas Day, LGBT refugees in Kenya again were the targets of homophobic attacks. It was just the latest outrage against LGBT asylum-seekers who [...]
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