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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February 20, 2018
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February 14, 2018
Criminalizing Indonesia’s LGBT People Won’t Protect Them
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February 8, 2018
UN Rights Chief Urges Indonesia to End LGBT Discrimination
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February 1, 2018
Indonesia’s Police Chief Investigates Transgender Raids
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January 11, 2018
Ending the Intersex Exception
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December 18, 2017
Vigilantes Stalk Indonesian Transgender Women
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November 29, 2017
Japan Forces Sterilization on Transgender People
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November 9, 2017
California’s 3rd Gender is Only the Beginning for Intersex Rights
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September 25, 2017
Greece Should Do Better on Transgender Legal Recognition
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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