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Advocating for Justice: African Rainbow Family Joins Nadia Whittome MP for Lesbian Visibility Week

Celebrating Lesbian Visibility Week and DIVA at the House of Commons

African Rainbow Family’s Statement in Response to BBC Investigation into LGBTIQ+ Asylum Fraudulent Claims 

Unity & Impact: African Rainbow Family Joins Clifford Chance for a Night of Networking

UN Human Rights Report Cites African Rainbow Family’s Evidence on the Persecution of LBQ Refugee Women

Event Report: CHOGM 2026 in a Changing Global Environment

African Rainbow Family at Westminster: Taking the “Earned Settlement” Challenge to Parliament

African Rainbow Family Secures Advocacy Win as Government Agrees to Dis-apply Asylum Changes Retrospectively

LGBTIQ+ HISTORY MONTH 2026 – Living History

Loyds Banking Group Rainbow Network – Manchester

Read African Rainbow Family’s contributions to the AdviceUK Press Release on the Government’s Earned Settlement Proposals on February 13, 2026.

Kaleidoscope Trust Annual Reception – 2026

Earned Settlement Policy Brief for LGBTIQ+ Refugees and People Seeking Asylum in the United Kingdom

African Rainbow Family: UK Asylum Reforms Are Repugnant to Human Rights and Against the Spirit of the Refugee Convention

Read our written input to The Impact of ‘Safe Country’ Concepts on Women Seeking Asylum in the UK’, a new policy paper. January 2026. 

Press Release: African Rainbow Family’s Response to Keir Starmer’s suggestion that without controlled migration the UK risks becoming “an island of strangers” 

African Rainbow Family’s response to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

African Rainbow Family’s Submission to the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance

Press Release: M.I v Switzerland Outcome

RWANDA DEPORTATION INFORMATION – NO PRIDE IN DEPORTATION!

UK PARLIAMENT PASSES A BILL THAT DEPORTS PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM TO RWANDA 

RWANDA BILL PROTEST – APRIL 2024

UK EQUAL MARRIAGE ACT ANNIVERSARY

THE SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOUR OF THE OPPRESSED

LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK

Legal Aid access for LGBT+ people seeking asylum

MY TAKE ON THE NEW ASYLUM ASPEN CARD DEBACULE

The Future of The Asylum System – UK

LGBTQ+ History Month: The History Decides the Future!

Covid-19 Impacts on LGBTIQ People Seeking Asylum

African Rainbow Family: Submission on Unequal Impact of Covid-19

ACCEPTING MYSELF

Press Release: Coronavirus

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

Press Release: LGBTIQ refugee conference calls for end to sexual abuse, exploitation of LGBTIQ refugees and high standard of proof sexuality policy

It’s Here! – Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum, UK

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

Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum, UK 

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

Book A Stall At Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum, UK 

Unreported! Sexual Abuse & Exploitation of LGBTIQs Seeking Asylum, UK

Part of History: Celebrating Whom we Are Report

Lesbian Visibility Day – We Are Human

Sign Up: We Are Human Pledge Manchester Declaration

We Are Human – Manchester Declaration

First ever LGBTIQ refugee conference calls for end to ‘vile’ proof of sexuality policy

LGBT Asylum Seekers & Refugees Tell Their Stories In Manchester!

PRESS RELEASE African Rainbow Family has been shortlisted for the UK’ Largest Diversity Awards.

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

7 years in prison for homosexuality for 4 Nigerian men

Stonewall Uprising: Rooting For Love

Rooting for Love

ACT UP FOR LOVE! Stonewall Uprising Trip are crowdfunding now!

ACT UP FOR LOVE! – June 28th 2016 – Celebrating Radical LGBTQI Resistance, Love and Unity

International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) 2016 : Mental Health and Well Being

International Family Equality Day 2016 Celebrations

UK Parliament Urges For More Actions To Tackle Serious Breaches of LGBT Rights Globally

A Case for HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Decriminalising Homosexuality

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

ARF Submitted Evidence to UK All Party Parliamentary Party Group (LGBT)

Commonwealth Summit in Malta urged to back LGBTI equality

Rally Against LGBTI Persecutions In Commonwealth Nations

My Country Shut Her Doors Against Me!

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

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

Breaking News – The Petition Is Working!

There Is No Pride In Criminalising Love – Pride is Protest

Obama’s Good News Tides For Africa – LGBT Rights, True Democracy For Africa

President Buhari Prefers The Terrorists – Boko Haram!

“I Am Baga Too”: Manchester Marches Against Boko Haram

President Buhari supports continuous criminalisation of his country’s LGBTI community!

Open Letter To President Barack Obama-Repeal Nigerian Anti-Gay Law

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Candlelit Vigil For The Victims of The Horrific #Baga Attack, 7th Feb 2015 @ 4pm En Route St Peters Square to Piccadilly.

Candlelit Vigil For The Victims of The Horrific #Baga Attack

Candlelit Vigil For The Victims of The Horrific #Baga Attack, 7th Feb 2015 @ 4pm En Route St Peters Square to Piccadilly.

Digital Battlegrounds: the growing struggle to contest LGBT online spaces

My Personal Statement on Human Rights

Exploring Black Female Sexuality & Spirituality