LGBTQ+ Rights
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19 Ugandan LGBTQ+ detainees obtain favorable opinion from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Tags Share Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Children of the Sun Foundation (COSF), Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights) welcome the opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) declaring the detention of 19 LGBTQ+ Ugandans arbitrary under international law. On March 29,…
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TIME100: Indyra Mendoza and Claudia Spellmant
We pay tribute to our partners on the Vicky Hernández case for their incredible work protecting LGBTQ+ rights.
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Celebrating and Defending Trans and Non-Binary Lives
Speak Truth to Power partnered with the Human Rights Campaign to create a lesson plan to teach students about transgender and nonbinary people who come from all walks of life.
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Bullying: Language, Literature, and Life
Students will follow Jamie Nabozny’s story and learn to interpret language as a factor in perpetuating or preventing bullying.
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LGBTQ+ Rights and Non-Discrimination
Students examine the human rights context for LGBTQ+ people in Uganda, analyze tactics for bringing about change for marginalized people, and look at transitional leaders who have brought about social change.
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Transgender Law Center v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Exposing cruel and degrading treatment of trans people in immigration detention
These cases under the Freedom of Information Act seek to expose cruel and degrading treatment of transgender people in immigration detention, including prolonged solitary confinement, sexual and physical abuse, and denial of essential medical care.
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We’re Setting a Precedent for Trans Rights
Tags Share Dear Friends, This is a monumental moment in RFK Human Rights’ history, and we wanted you to be among the first to know. After years of litigation on behalf of the family of Vicky Hernández, a trans activist who was murdered in Honduras in 2009, we’re proud to announce that the Inter-American Court…
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Uganda’s Sexual Offences Bill Fosters Discrimination and Injustice
Tags Share The Sexual Offences Bill, which seeks to amend the existing legal framework on sexual offences (especially the Penal Code Act Cap 120), contains several provisions that would worsen the situation of the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Despite the stated object of the Bill purportedly being “the effectual prevention…
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Three Ways to Support LGBTQ+ Students
Tags Share As more and more anti-LGBTQ+ legislation crops up around the country, here are three ways we can all support and empower our trans students. You may also want to read this article about a new poll showing Americans are overwhelmingly against anti-transgender laws. By Ei Meeker, English and health education teacher, Brooklyn, N.Y.…
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