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The Report: Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum

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Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum On 11th August 2018 in Manchester, African Rainbow Family held our second annual conference, Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum. The conference attracted delegates from diverse walks of life with speakers whom are  ‘Experts by Experience’ (our members), including speakers from the House …

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Meet Our Speakers At Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum, UK 

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    Meet Our Speakers! – African Rainbow Family Annual Conference, Manchester. 11/08/2018 The #MeToo unreported world of LGBTIQ people seeking asylum and refuge in the UK is real! On Saturday, 11/8/2018, our amazing ‘Experts by Experience’ whom are members of African Rainbow Family (Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds branches) will share their personal realities of …

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Rally To Stop Mass Deportations of LGBTI Asylum Seekers To Nigeria – End Charter Flights

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Join us @AfricanRainbow1 to keep #LGBTI #asylumseekers safe from persecution, imprisonment and possibly deaths? #Chechnya #LGBT #solidarity

A Case for HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Decriminalising Homosexuality

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Press Release 06/02/2016 ACT UP! FIGHT BACK! FIGHT AIDS! UNTIL THERE IS AN HIV / AIDS CURE FOR ALL! In a ‘SILENCE = 40’ CAMPAIGN LAUNCH held in London on 5th Feb. 2016 by our friend ACT UP London in collaboration with African Rainbow Family and other  coalition of social justice movements such as musicians, activists, lawyers and politicians from …

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Submitted Evidence to UK All Party Parliamentary Party Group (LGBT) – Homophobic Situation in Nigeria

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“The role that UK parliamentarians can play in championing LGBT rights worldwide and responding when such rights are threatened with particular respect to the homophobic anti-gay law in Nigeria. (DOWNLOAD the report) As part of our ongoing campaign to repeal the toxic Nigeria anti-gay law, we responded to The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global …

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Commonwealth Summit in Malta urged to back LGBTI equality

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For 66 years, the Commonwealth has refused to even discuss LGBTI rights  London, UK 26 November 2015 Members of African Rainbow Family group and other fifty people rallied outside the London headquarters of the Commonwealth, two days before the start of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta. Watch the video coverage here. …

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My Country Shut Her Doors Against Me!

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On Wednesday, 30th September 2015, Aderonke Apata, a Nigerian lesbian, global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) equality advocate, feminist and human rights activist was joined by many LGBTI activists in a rally to deliver petition signatures of over 70,000 demanding the repeal of Nigeria Anti Gay Laws to the Nigeria High Commission in London. …

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African Rainbow Family London Rally Demands Repeal Nigeria Anti-Gay Law

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Petition with over 70,000 signatures demands LGBTI equality in Nigeria Over 100 people joined Aderonke Apata, founder, African Rainbow Family rallied outside the Nigerian High Commission in London on 30 September. They handed in a petition with over 70,000 signatures, urging Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to repeal of all Nigeria’s anti-LGBTI laws. The embassy refused to …

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Press Release: Rally to demand repeal of Nigeria’s anti-LGBTI laws

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Rally to demand repeal of Nigeria’s anti-LGBTI laws Stand in solidarity with Nigerian LGBTI people next Wednesday Wednesday 30 September, 1-2pm. Rally outside the Nigerian High Commission, 9 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BX (nearest tube stations Charing Cross and Embankment). Map: https://goo.gl/EA5cDl Put pressure on the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to uphold LGBTI human rights. …

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