Publications

Advocating for governments to create more pathways to safety for LGBTQI+ refugees has always been an essential part of our work. Governments have the power to help LGBTQI+ people seeking safety, and therefore,...

Two years after a landmark decision from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urging the Jamaican government to repeal the country’s homophobic laws, Rainbow Railroad and the Human Dignity...

Rainbow Railroad documents human rights abuses faced by over 1,700 LGBTQI+ Afghans under Taliban rule in this comprehensive research report.

In the wake of our ongoing work in Afghanistan, we have some important news to share. Today, we can confirm that Rainbow Railroad will be able to facilitate the resettlement of approximately 600...

Rainbow Railroad’s 2021 Annual Report analyzes the issues being faced by LGBTQI+ people globally through the lens of the data Rainbow Railroad has collected over the course of 2021. This...

LGBTQ+ People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover - a report by Human Rights Watch and OutRight Action International profiling Rainbow Railroad's efforts.

The Caribbean is a region of great cultural and linguistic diversity, but there’s something that unites many of its countries. Today, in nine Caribbean countries, same-sex intimacy is still criminalized...

Since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, LGBTQI+ people in Afghanistan have faced severe persecution, including physical assaults, sexual violence and reported unlawful killings....

The next Canadian government must make changes to the refugee system to provide more pathways to safety for displaced LGBTQI+ people and all displaced persons.  On September...

Same-sex intimacy is illegal in 69 countries around the world; and in 14 countries, transgender peoples' gender identity and expression are criminalized. What do these harrowing country-level statistics...

Rainbow Railroad calls on the Biden-Harris Administration to take Action on Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights & Migrant Crisis In February 2021, President Biden released the Memorandum...

Understanding how COVID-19 is affecting the populations we serve has been the first step in our response to the pandemic. To that end, we have published a report called “The Impact of COVID-19 on Displaced...