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January 24, 2018

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

After everything that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people experienced in 2017 it seemed only fair that 2018 would start off with a small glimmer of hope. What we didn’t expect was that hope would be served up from nearly all corners of the earth.

LGBT Rights

January 24, 2018 Commentary

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

Neela Ghoshal
Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: The Advocate
Children's Rights

May 23, 2017 Commentary

Namibia Can Help Protect Schools in War Zones

Helen Griffiths
Coordinator, Children's Rights

Published In: The Namibian
Africa

March 29, 2011 News Release

SADC: Press Mugabe to End Crackdown

Reports More Reports

June 14, 2018

Leave No Girl Behind in Africa

Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers
December 1, 2003

Policy Paralysis

A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against Women and Girls in Africa
May 13, 2003

More Than a Name:

State-Sponsored Homophobia and its Consequences in Southern Africa

News

August 31, 2009 News Release

SADC: Press Zimbabwe to Implement Rights Reforms
July 30, 2009 Statement

African Civil Society Urges African States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC
June 22, 2009 Commentary

The Kimberley Process and Zim: Last-chance Saloon?

Jon Elliott, Africa advocacy director

Published In: The Namibian
June 12, 2009 News Release

Namibian Lawyer, Canadian Academic Honored for HIV/AIDS Work
August 18, 2008 Commentary

The costs of marital rape in Southern Africa

Nada Ali

Published In: The Independent (UK)
August 14, 2008 News Release

SADC: Adopt Gender and Development Protocol
July 2, 2003 Statement

President Bush's Trip to Africa
April 20, 2001 News Release

Congo: Resource Exploitation Exacerbates Civilian Suffering
May 27, 1998 News Release

Human Rights Watch Fears for Deported Angolan Human Rights Activist

Daily Brief

February 15, 2019

UN investigation needed into mass internment of an estimated one million Turkic Muslims; US still rejects regulations preventing ‘Killer Robots’; new wave of anti-LGBT persecution in Chechnya; post-election killings test for new DR Congo president; 300 babies die in war zones every day; growing concern for jailed women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia; antisemitism on the rise across Europe; rights lawyer faces bogus charges in Equatorial Guinea; and new Barbie doll could help fight stigma around physical disabilities.