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Neela Ghoshal

Neela Ghoshal

Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program Follow @NeelaGhoshal

Neela Ghoshal is Senior Researcher in the LGBT Rights program at Human Rights Watch. She has worked with Human Rights Watch for ten years: first in the Africa Division, where she focused on political repression, police abuse, justice sector reform, and transitional justice in Burundi and Kenya, and then, since 2012, in the LGBT rights program, where she documents and conducts advocacy on human rights violations related to sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Ghoshal worked on access to justice for genocide survivors in Guatemala and on education and criminal justice in New York City. Ghoshal holds a bachelor's in social justice studies from the University of Michigan and a master's in international relations from Yale University. 

Articles Authored

  • December 3, 2018 Commentary

    Tunisia’s Assault on Gay Men’s—and Everyone’s – Right to Privacy

    Published in Knack
  • October 29, 2018 Commentary

    Mexico Transgender Ruling a Beacon for Change

    Published in Los Angeles Times
  • October 15, 2018 Commentary

    Lesbian Film 'Rafiki' May Change Kenya Forever

    Published in The Advocate
  • August 28, 2018 Dispatches

    Caning for Alleged Lesbian Acts in Malaysia Postponed

  • August 28, 2018 Commentary

    Success to Savor but More Challenges for LGBT Rights in Lebanon

    Published in Thomson Reuters
  • August 7, 2018 Commentary

    Malaysia Should Find ‘Right Path’ on LGBT Rights

    Published in Malaysiakini
  • July 6, 2018 Dispatches

    No, LGBT People Aren't Harming Malaysia, But Child Marriage Is

  • February 1, 2018 Dispatches

    Tunisian Police Shut Down Dissent

  • January 24, 2018 Commentary

    For LGBT Rights, 2018 Will Be the Year of the Courts

    Published in The Advocate
  • January 22, 2018 Dispatches

    More Arrests in Egypt’s LGBT Crackdown, but No International Outcry

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    July 12, 2016

    Dignity Debased

    Forced Anal Examinations in Homosexuality Prosecutions

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    September 28, 2015

    The Issue is Violence

    Attacks on LGBT People on Kenya's Coast

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    September 24, 2014

    "I’m Scared to Be a Woman"

    Human Rights Abuses Against Transgender People in Malaysia

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    June 18, 2013

    “Treat Us Like Human Beings”

    Discrimination against Sex Workers, Sexual and Gender Minorities, and People Who Use Drugs in Tanzania

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    March 21, 2013

    Guilty by Association

    Human Rights Violations in the Enforcement of Cameroon’s Anti-Homosexuality Law

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    May 4, 2012

    Criminal Reprisals

    Kenyan Police and Military Abuses against Ethnic Somalis

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    December 9, 2011

    “Turning Pebbles”

    Evading Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya

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    October 27, 2011

    “Hold Your Heart”

    Waiting for Justice in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon Region

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    November 23, 2010

    Closing Doors?

    The Narrowing of Democratic Space in Burundi

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    May 14, 2010

    “We’ll Tie You Up and Shoot You”

    Lack of Accountability for Political Violence in Burundi

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    March 26, 2010

    Mob Justice in Burundi

    Official Complicity and Impunity

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    July 29, 2009

    Forbidden

    Institutionalizing Discrimination against Gays and Lesbians in Burundi

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