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As part of the 2022 Commonwealth Women’s Forum held in Kigali, Rwanda on 21 June 2022, the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Human Rights Unit (HRU) convened a high-level panel on the theme of ‘Accountability for Gender Equality’.

The government has allocated a further £2.7m to fund the promotion of LGBT rights in Commonwealth countries, which include several Muslim nations. The Prime Minister’s Office said the money would support grassroots human rights defenders and advance equality and freedom across the Commonwealth. It added that the funding would support civil society organisations working to […]

The UK is announcing further funding today to support grassroots human rights defenders and advance equality and freedom across the Commonwealth.

LGBTQ+ Bajans currently do not enjoy the same rights as heterosexual citizens. As the world’s newest republic begins life, it’s vital that the island nation ends its laws penalising the community

Lady Phyll discusses British colonisation, its impact on LGBT+ rights, and how the Kaleidoscope Trust is working to build an equal world.

Lester Kiewet speaks to Steve Letsike, chair of both LGBTI National Task Team & Commonwealth Equality Network

Mon 28 Dec 2020 02.15 EST Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 07.21 EST When I was nine, my parents took me to a traditional healer. He used a razor to make three incisions on the insteps of my feet, my wrists, my elbows, my forehead and on the back of my neck. As blood started to flow, the healer rubbed a concoction of herbs into the incisions and gave me a potion to drink. He took alligator pepper and rubbed it on various parts of my body. There was a rooster, into which he cast the “demon” i...