November 28, 2023
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Giving Tuesday 2023: Supporting Rainbow Railroad’s work in Uganda
In May of 2023, the Ugandan President signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act into law, codifying one of the most extreme pieces of anti-LGBTQI+ legislation in the world.
In recent months, Rainbow Railroad has experienced an alarming surge in requests for...
Mbarara Rise Foundation
In addition to providing emergency travel support to individuals fleeing persecution, Rainbow Railroad operates five programs, including Partnership Development. Through this program, we work closely with human rights defenders and grassroots organizations...
November 21, 2023
Trans Awareness Week
Trans Awareness Week November 13-19
We observe Transgender Awareness Week at Rainbow Railroad to promote greater acceptance, visibility, inclusivity, and social change for the transgender community. In order to understand and address the challenges...
November 13, 2023
Strategic Convening on Afghanistan: LGBTQI+ Human Rights & Humanitarian Response
As the Afghanistan response enters its third year, research suggests that the risks to LGBTQI+ persons posed by the Taliban regime continue largely unabated while the availability of pathways to safety for LGBTQI+ Afghans is stagnating. More broadly,...
October 31, 2023
Intersex Awareness Day
On October 26, 1996, intersex activists from around the world gathered in Boston, Massachusetts, outside the annual American Academy of Pediatrics conference for the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America. Since then, this day...
October 26, 2023
UNHCR Roundtable Update
The Global Compact on Refugees, by which governments made commitments for refugee solutions, made little mention of LGBTQI+ persons.
In 2021 UNHCR hosted a Global Roundtable on LGBTQI+ forced displacement. The convening, which took place virtually...
October 25, 2023
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Rainbow Railroad Responds to Supreme Court Ruling on Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement
Rainbow Railroad is deeply disappointed and concerned by the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to uphold the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), which was released this morning.
Although...
June 16, 2023
News
‘Sharp increase’ in LGBTQ+ Ugandans trying to flee country after Anti-Homosexuality Bill
A global LGBTQ+ asylum charity has recorded a huge rise in LGBTQ+ people from Uganda asking for help in fleeing the country.
Rainbow Railroad says the rise is “directly related” to...
May 6, 2023
News
Monét X Change Will Headline Rainbow Railroad’s 2023 Fundraising ‘Freedom Party’
Tickets are available now for the June 8th fundraising event in Toronto…
This Pride Month you can celebrate with an incredible night of entertainment, all in support of a good cause....
April 21, 2023
News
Activists urge Jamaica to nix anti-sodomy laws amid violence
Activists demanded Tuesday that Jamaica repeal a colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex, noting that the government still has not heeded a regional rights panel’s recommendation two years ago to do so...
February 21, 2023
News
Refugee charity says it’s partnering with feds to resettle 600 LGBTQ2S+ Afghans
Rainbow Railroad, a charity that helps LGBTQ2S+ refugees find a safe home, says they are partnering with the Canadian government in order to resettle approximately 600 Afghans.
December 23, 2022
News
Refugee group partners with Ottawa to bring hundreds of LGBTQ Afghans to Canada
In partnership with the Canadian Government, Rainbow Railroad will resettle approximately 600 LGBTQI+ Afghans into Canada.
December 22, 2022
