Commentary
Mexico Transgender Ruling a Beacon for Change
Published in
Los Angeles Times
Neela Ghoshal
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.
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Reports Authored
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Dignity Debased
Forced Anal Examinations in Homosexuality Prosecutions
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The Issue is Violence
Attacks on LGBT People on Kenya's Coast
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"I’m Scared to Be a Woman"
Human Rights Abuses Against Transgender People in Malaysia
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“Treat Us Like Human Beings”
Discrimination against Sex Workers, Sexual and Gender Minorities, and People Who Use Drugs in Tanzania
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Guilty by Association
Human Rights Violations in the Enforcement of Cameroon’s Anti-Homosexuality Law
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Criminal Reprisals
Kenyan Police and Military Abuses against Ethnic Somalis
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“Turning Pebbles”
Evading Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya
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“Hold Your Heart”
Waiting for Justice in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon Region
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Closing Doors?
The Narrowing of Democratic Space in Burundi
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“We’ll Tie You Up and Shoot You”
Lack of Accountability for Political Violence in Burundi
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Mob Justice in Burundi
Official Complicity and Impunity
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Forbidden
Institutionalizing Discrimination against Gays and Lesbians in Burundi
