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Improving the lives of intersex people in Kenya
The Week
Nestled in a quiet, leafy Nairobi neighborhood just a stone’s throw from the throbbing of sounds of a sprawling city market, is a refuge where intersex, transgender, and gender-nonconforming Kenyans can escape searing public judgment and discrimination.
When the world stays silent
Newsday
New Coalition Goes on the Offensive for Abortion Rights
The Progressive
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Leading Jewish Global Human Rights Group Mobilizes More Than 300 Jewish Clergy Members to Urge U.S. State Department to Disband Commission on Unalienable Rights
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) says human rights must be protected for vulnerable people, including women, girls, and LGBTQI people Today, 302 Jewish clergy from across 35 states and the District of Columbia joined to send a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing opposition to the Commission on Unalienable Rights. Rori Kramer, …Read More
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Today we mourn Lorena Borjas, “the mother of the Trans Latinx community of Queens,” whose tireless fight for the sa… https://t.co/nthwF6aLuM
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