Reportedly hunted by police, scorned by family and evicted by their landlady, two LGBTQ+ rights activists from Sierra Leone have fled the country and and

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is struggling to handle a flood of citizenship applications — many of them from a change to federal law late last year that allows anyone who can prove the...

In Mozambique, the lack of laws criminalizing LGBTQ+ identities is often taken as a sign of tolerance. However, for many transgender people and LBQ (lesbian,

Burundi joins several other African nations in accepting people deported under Trump’s hardline policy

Volker Türk on Monday spoke at UN LGBTI Core Group event

Federal policy shifts have led to fewer asylum claims — and governments are changing how refugees are housed.

U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Canadian immigration policies on Wednesday, saying the country is "destroying itself" by allowing "millions" of people into the country without proper securit...

To read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) is to be struck by Ocean Vuong’s close, careful attention to language. Vuong is, of course, a lauded poet, a

When Areena Shrestha arrived in Canada as an international student, she didn't fully understand how uncertain and emotionally exhausting the journey to permanent residency could be.

ALISON DONNELL extols a virtuoso literary performance that primes the imagination for justice and transformation to come.

Aylin says she fled her home country after her life was threatened. She sought refuge in the US but was deported to a country where her sexuality puts her at risk.

Abstract. Drawing on participant observation and semi-structured interviews with LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in England and Scotland, this article explor

Activists in Bangladesh launched a petition calling for an end to anti-LGBT discrimination following several students were expelled over alleged homosexuality.

LGBTQ+ refugees have fled persecution across East Africa in search of safety. In South Sudan’s Gorom Refugee Settlement, many say that the violence and harassment have followed them

Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ+ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.

Pietro Graza was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees remain in legal limbo.

Without evidence, the Turkish government claims the crackdowns are about “keeping families safe.”

Turkey’s LGBTQ community has faced increasing pressure since the government declared 2026 the beginning of its “Decade of the Family.”

In an escalation of its decade-long hostility toward LGBTQ+ groups, particularly in the lead-up to elections, simultaneous police raids beginning at 1 a.m. took place in the major cities of Istanbul, ...

Thousands of people are leaving Texas, Florida and other states that are waging a culture war on LGBTQ+ people. Portland needs them.

Ousmane (a pseudonym), a 24-year-old Guinean, spent four days in Libya’s al-Maya detention center. Migrants consider the unofficial prison to be one of the most violent in the country. The young man s...

Title: Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir Author: Danny Ramadan Genres: Memoir Summary (from publisher): Starting with his family's humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the city's underground network of queer safe homes; to a clandestine party at a secluded villa in Cairo; through Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East, a reckless hoax that threatens the safety of Syria's LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver that's not as smooth as it promised to be; and ultimately to a life of hard-won comfort and love. Tea/Coffee: Syrian Murra Coffee

Police in Cameroon had arrested 60+ in anti-gay crackdown on Aug. 23

On the night of Aug. 23, around 3 a.m., at least 68 people identified or perceived as homosexual were arrested in the Makepe and Bonamoussadi

As polls point to victory in Saxony-Anhalt for AfD party promising deportations, people face agonising choice: stay or g

Image Description: Inside a simple canvas tent, a mother sits holding a small child tightly against her chest. The bright, dusty camp and distant figures are visible through the open entrance. Kakuma,...

While recent decades have marked major advances for LGBTIQ+ people’s human rights, today an estimated 2 billion people live in places where consensual same

“My family, my government, my religion, and the whole country is against me for being gay.”

A transgender woman from the US who sought asylum in the Netherlands has returned home after her application bid failed and she suffered serious intimidation at the Ter Apel refugee centre. Jane-Michelle Arc, from California, was one of approximately 76 Americans that sought asylum in the Netherlands last year. She flew to Schiphol airport and was instructed by customs officers to report to the immigration service IND at Ter Apel, which houses roughly 2,000 asylum seekers. Her reason for leaving...

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

The number of evacuation requests from LGBTQ+ people in Belarus has risen sharply.

Last month, Alban Bagbin, the homophobic Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, vowed that legislators would revise the nation’s harsh anti-LGBTQ bill before

Amid the debates surrounding the constitutionalization of the ban on same-sex marriage in Senegal on June 29 (Bill No. 17/2026)—which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman—the exclusion o...

The LGBTI community in Cameroon is experiencing an unprecedented crisis caused by the departure of many leaders, and cuts to funding.

While 66 countries criminalize homosexuality, since the criminalization of same-sex sexual relations in Niger, only 45 countries impose criminal penalties for both male and female homosexuality, inclu...

Activists in the region say politicians regard LGBTQ+ people as ‘the easiest scapegoats to maintain their power’

What does it mean to survive in a country that is trying to erase you? CFK Global Fellow Clare Byarugaba reflects on Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law, resistance, and the fight for belonging.

"I had just 24 hours to get out after criminal charges were opened against me."

Thank you all so much for your donations! The situation is still dire there so … Brie Harris needs your support for Help the LGBTQ Refugees of the Kakuma Camp

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

Montreal refugee advocates say they are hearing from a growing number of Haitians in the United States who are considering coming to Canada after the Trump administration moved to end deportation prot...

While conflict-related sexual violence remains significantly underreported worldwide, the United Nations has documented cases affecting women, men, girls,