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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks on hate crimes against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. May 2011. For more information on United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:  http://www.ohchr.org/

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks on hate crimes against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. View video here >> For more information on United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:  http://www.ohchr.org/

Atlantic Philanthropies just completed a study of queer youth in South Africa today. Seventeen years after the Constitution outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation, the study explores if democracy has brought greater tolerance and celebration of diversity for today's young LGBTIs.Marian Nell and Janet Shapiro authored the…

Completion of our grantmaking at the end of 2016 brings us one step closer to the end of the path our founder, Chuck Feeney, and Atlantic started down 35 years ago.

David Sternlieb, Chief Operating Officer of The Atlantic Philanthropies, delivered these remarks at the October 13, 2016 opening of the Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town, South Africa. Acclaimed author and filmmaker, Zanemvula “Zakes” Mda led the ceremony, hailing the new center as…

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex Africans seek asylum and refuge in South Africa, where the Constitution promises equal rights. Tolerance and acceptance, however, does not come easily. Find out how gay rights activism has helped challenge and overcome xenophobia and homophobia. Learn More PASSOP…

Commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the OTHER Foundation, this report gives an overview of what it means to be gay and African in the early part of the 21st century. The report shows that homophobia in Africa is rife – expressed through legislation that criminalises…

The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network is an Atlantic grantee.Kathy SheridanTHE GAY WEDDING BUS is revving up. In the driving seat is Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, sporting a big red T-shirt with the message, “Civil partnership is NOT marriage equality”. Behind him, highly excited, the latest…

CAPE TOWN — Gay African asylum seekers struggle to find work and battle homophobic discrimination in South Africa, the continent's only nation to allow same-sex marriage, a report showed Tuesday.Interviews with 25 Africans by a Cape Town NGO found that 90 percent were jobless and…

This Atlantic-commissioned case study provides a snapshot of what life is like for young lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered and intersex people (LGBTIs) in South Africa today – 17 years after the Constitution outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation. It explores if democracy has brought greater tolerance and celebration…