ALTURI WORLD VOICES: Get to know them

Paul Canary Kanyamu – Human Rights Defender in Kenya

Paul Canary Kanyamu is a humanitarian volunteer, refugee rights advocate, and human rights defender. He is 26 years old and originally from Uganda. Paul lives in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya…

Nyasha Zhakata – Global Director, The Dream Academy

My name is Nyasha Zhakata (Masi). I’m an out and proud 38-year-old lesbian mom of an incredible daughter. I’m an activist, human rights defender, and the Global Director of The Dream Academy,…

J.P. Der Boghossian — Queer Armenian Library

Based in Minneapolis, the Queer Armenian Library is an online collection of curated works by or about queer Armenians. I spoke to founder J.P. Der Boghossian to learn more about the library…

Alex Meszaros — Identity.Education, Romania

Located in Timișoara, Romania’s third-largest city, Identity.Education was created out of a need for formal representation of the LGBTI community and a lack of spaces for the community to gather. I spoke…

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ADDED ON: 03/19/2023

Italy’s gay opposition leader blasts bureaucratic crackdown on rights of LGBTQ parents as ideological, cruel and discriminatory as thousands protest in Milan

The head of Italy's opposition party blasted a bureaucratic crackdown on LGBTQ families as 'ideological', 'cruel' and 'discriminatory'. The Interior Ministry this week forced Milan to limit parental rights to the biological…

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ADDED ON: 03/19/2023

CHRISTIAN FAR-RIGHT GROUPS TO RALLY IN SYDNEY THIS WEEKEND, LGBT ACTIVISTS ORGANISE COUNTER PROTEST

Far-right Christian groups are planning to gather on Macquarie Street in Sydney this weekend to rally, as LGBTQI activists work to counter with their own protest. On Saturday, March 18, the far-right…

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ADDED ON: 03/19/2023

Petition for progressive sex education in Ukraine

Members of the LGBT community in Ukraine have gathered signatures for a petition to introduce mandatory sex education in Ukrainian schools. It gathered thousands of votes. The petition demands an introduction "of…

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ADDED ON: 03/18/2023

Kenya’s Catholic Bishops condemn Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ rights

The Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops has condemned a Supreme Court of Kenya ruling allowing the registration of organizations that seek to advocate for and support LGBT people. The condemnation is in…

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