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Kyle Knight
Kyle Knight is a researcher in the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining the LGBT rights program, he was a fellow at the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles and a Fulbright scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he has worked for Agence France-Presse in Nepal and for IRIN, the UN’s humanitarian news service, reporting from Burma, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He has previously 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 studied cultural anthropology at Duke University.
Articles Authored
Other Writing
- Humanitarian Exchange: Making disaster risk reduction and relief programmes LGBTI inclusive: examples from Nepal
- UNICEF/UN Women: Understanding the needs and capacities of LGBTI persons in disasters and emergencies
- Emory International Law Review: Establishing A Third Gender Category in Nepal: Process and Prognosis
- Forced Migration Review: gender identity and disaster response in Nepal
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Reports Authored
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“A Really High Hurdle”
Japan’s Abusive Transgender Legal Recognition Process
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No Support
Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law Imperils LGBT Youth
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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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A Changing Paradigm
US Medical Provider Discomfort with Intersex Care Practices
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“I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me”
Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US
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“I Want to Live With My Head Held High”
Abuses in Bangladesh’s Legal Recognition of Hijras
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“These Political Games Ruin Our Lives”
Indonesia’s LGBT Community Under Threat
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“The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down”
LGBT Bullying and Exclusion in Japanese Schools
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“That’s When I Realized I Was Nobody”
A Climate of Fear for LGBT People in Kazakhstan
