Blog Post Oct 28, 2020 Protecting and Advancing LGBTQI Rights Globally At the 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation turned a focus on protecting and advancing LGBTQI rights globally in a panel discussion sponsored by The Friedrich Naumann Foundation…
Press Release May 6, 2020 LGBT Community Under Increasing Pressure in Morocco In his talk at the 2015 Oslo Freedom Forum, the first openly gay Moroccan filmmaker and writer, Abdellah Taia, said that he had always thought he “was the only gay…
News Dec 4, 2017 Police arrest woman in Tanzania over video of same-sex kiss HRF condemns crackdown on LGBTQI people and rights groups being carried out by Tanzania’s authoritarian regime.
News Nov 20, 2017 Turkish ban on LGBTI events in capital condemned as ‘discriminatory’ (The Guardian) – Rights groups have condemned as illegal and discriminatory a ban on LGBTI events in the Turkish capital one week after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described empowering gay people as being “against the values of our nation”.
News Oct 10, 2017 UN Resolution Condemns Death Penalty for Same-sex Relations “…It is unconscionable to think that there are hundreds of millions of people living in States where somebody may be executed simply because of whom they love” said Renato Sabbadini, Executive Director of The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA). “
Press Release Apr 18, 2017 Chechnya: Terror Against Gay Men Could Amount to Crimes Against Humanity The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls on the international community to hold Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chechen head of government Ramzan Kadyrov accountable for the ongoing and systematic persecution of gay men in Chechnya, a territory controlled by the Russian Federation.
