Kyle Knight
Kyle Knight is a senior researcher on health and LGBT rights at Human Rights Watch. Previously he was a fellow at the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, and a Fulbright scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Nepal and for the UN’s humanitarian news service (IRIN), reporting from Burma, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He has worked for UNAIDS, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and in the children’s rights and health and human rights divisions at Human Rights Watch. He sits on the editorial board of the Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health Journal. He has a BA in cultural anthropology from Duke University and a Masters of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Articles Authored
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July 13, 2017
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July 7, 2017
Singapore’s LGBT Festival Goes Local
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June 5, 2017
Sofia LGBT Pride Should Showcase a Tolerant Bulgaria
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May 25, 2017
Bangladesh “Gay Party” Raid Flouts Privacy Rights
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May 12, 2017
Sparing the Rod in Indonesia
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May 1, 2017
South Korea’s Military ‘Sodomy Law’ Should Go
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April 27, 2017
Japan’s Missed Opportunity to Support LGBT Children
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April 13, 2017
Chechnya's Gay Purge Should Spark International Action
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April 12, 2017
Indonesia’s Jokowi Fails to Abolish Abusive Sharia Laws
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February 17, 2017
South Korea Backslides on Sex Education
Other Writing
Reports Authored
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“We Have to Beg So Many People”
Human Rights Violations in Nepal’s Legal Gender Recognition Practices
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“Scared in Public and Now No Privacy”
Human Rights and Public Health Impacts of Indonesia’s Anti-LGBT Moral Panic
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