Publications

In the absence of the substantive inclusion in Canada’s Action Plan actions that target and provide necessary aid to LGBTQI+ refugees, Rainbow Railroad proposes three policy mechanisms that the Canadian...

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...

Vulnerable LGBTQI+ Afghan refugees need additional targeted and expedited resettlement pathways. We propose two policy mechanisms the government can activate to make this happen: 1. We ask the Minister...

Rainbow Railroad Rainbow Railroad calls on the U.S. Government to expedite access for LGBTQI+ persons to refugee status determination (RSD) procedures on U.S. territory. This is a critical action which...

Rainbow Railroad seeks a partnership with the Government of Canada that will allow the organization to immediately refer vulnerable LGBTQI+ individuals for resettlement in Canada. Over the last several...

In this memorandum, we draw on our extensive work in Afghanistan since the end of August to provide a briefing on the security emergency facing the country’s LGBTQI+ population, outline why this emergency...

LGBTQI+ Afghans are facing state-directed homophobic, biphobic and transphobic violence on a widespread scale to the extent that Rainbow Railroad is urging the Government of Canada take additional measures...

In order to truly become a global leader on the rights of LGBTQI+ people, Canada must support those fleeing persecution on the basis of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics...

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...

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...

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....