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Human Rights First works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons can access and enjoy fundamental human rights protections. Human Rights First aims to bolster the responses of governments to hate crime violence motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity bias, to challenge laws that criminalize homosexuality, and to improve access for LGBTI refugees to asylum, protection, resettlement, and assistance.
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HRC Presents the Release of ‘The Road to Safety’ by Human Rights First Washington, DC – Human Rights First…
5-14-2012
Kseniya Kirichenko runs a legal assistance program for the Russian LGBT Network, the country’s largest interregional NGO working on gay rights. A Novosibirsk-based attorney, she’s engaged in advocacy, research, and legal assistance for victims of discrimination and violence motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity bias.
3-23-2012
Meet Liesl Theron, who works daily to protect the rights of transgender, transsexual, and nonconforming persons in South Africa. Liesl co-founded Gender DynamiX, with her former partner (who is a trans man), the country’s first civil society organization focusing on the needs of trans persons. Gender DynamiX offers help and guidance to those who seek to transition—or adjust to, without making physical changes—the gender role assigned to them at birth.
3-16-2012
