Africa

Global News

Added on: 11/14/2018
11/14/2018
More than 70 gay men were jailed by Tunisian authorities last year, according to activists, who warn anal tests and phone searches are being used to identify…

Global News

Added on: 11/11/2018
11/10/2018
Official anti-gay prejudice in Tanzania is causing Canadian officials to reassess this country’s relationship with one of Canada’s biggest aid recipients. Arrests of gay men in Zanzibar…

Global News

Added on: 08/20/2018
08/18/2018
Thousands of Muslim fundamentalists protested Saturday in front of the nation’s parliament to decry proposals in a government report on gender equality that they claim are contrary…

Global News

Added on: 08/17/2018
08/16/2018
Amid Egypt’s continuing repression of its LGBT citizens, dissidents, political activists and journalists, actor Khaled Abol Naga keeps promoting LGBT rights. An award-winning actor, stage director and…

Global News

Added on: 08/17/2018
An eight-part podcast series looking into the experiences of “queer Africans living, loving, thriving and surviving on the continent and in the diaspora” recently hit the virtual…

Global News

Added on: 08/16/2018
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has backed equal inheritance rights for men and women and is also pushing for other reforms such as decriminalizing homosexuality. Religious conservatives…

Global News

Added on: 07/08/2018
Just minutes into the night shift at Lowe’s, beads of sweat sparkle on Bol Gai Deng’s forehead. He’s at the back of the suburban Richmond store, unloading…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
Heartland Alliance’s Global Initiative for Sexuality and Human Rights (GISHR) stands behind activists who are improving the lives of LGBT persons — promoting their rights and protecting them…

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Added on: 01/31/2018
Securing the most basic freedoms for people worldwide requires front-line organizations challenging abuse wherever it occurs. The Fund for Global Human Rights finds the best human rights…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
Today’s global refugee crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Millions fleeing persecution or armed conflict are seeking safety in refugee facilities as…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
The Advocates for Human Rights (The Advocates) is a volunteer-based non-governmental organization committed to the impartial promotion and protection of international human rights standards and the rule…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
AJWS is the fourth largest U.S.-based funder of global LGBTI rights worldwide. Since 2005, AJWS has invested nearly $9.5 million in global LGBTI rights. In 2013 alone,…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
The Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice is a multi-gendered, multi-racial, multi-identity organization that prioritizes and supports the leadership of women, transgender people, youth, and people of color….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
The Human Rights Watch lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights program has fought for over a decade to end human rights violations based on sexual orientation…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
LGBT rights are human rights, period. Human Rights First works to ensure that these rights are incorporated into the United States’ foreign policy agenda and advanced on…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
Advocates for Youth works across the U.S. and developing world to advance youth sexual health and rights to further a vision of a society in which all…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/24/2018
Alternatives-Cameroun’s mission includes advocating nationally and internationally for the human rights of the LGBTI population. The association also provides direct support to individual community members in the form…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/23/2018
UHAI (the Swahili word for well-being) EASHRI is Africa’s first indigenous, activist-led and activist-managed fund supporting LGBTI and sex worker activism in Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/20/2018
With more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries, and complete independence from government, corporate or ideological interests, we work to protect…

World Voices

Added on: 08/20/2017
Alturi Contributor
Following a series of hate crime attacks, members of Namibia’s LGBT community took to the streets of the capital Windhoek for a Pride march on Saturday, July…

World Voices

Added on: 03/14/2017
Robert Blackmon
Alturi Project Director
Azza identifies as a Sudanese lesbian, Muslim, Nubian feminist who finds inspiration in the many intersections of her identity. She began her activism in 2007 using social…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016
Robert Blackmon
Alturi Project Director
Mike highlights his interview with John Adewoye, “a former priest who battled with his sexual orientation for many years, denying the truth of who he is, and…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016
Alturi Contributor
As a father of four children – three having been born in different East-African cities while he was working on a variety of humanitarian efforts – Pablo…