The International PRIDE Centre

The PRIDE Centre: Protection, Rights, Inclusion In Displacement & Emergencies works to ensure that critical aid and assistance gets to LGBTQIA+ persons in crisis and emergency situations in countries in Africa where it can be extremely dangerous to be Queer. We provide direct assistance, health support,  legal & policy analysis, outreach and support to LGBTQIA+ community groups and Refugee-led Organisations, and design programme tools for aid workers. The PRIDE Centre focuses on countries experiencing acute and protracted crises, in which the space for LGBTQI+ rights and expression has become increasingly restricted.

In these volatile settings, LGBTQIA+ needs frequently go ignored and unmet. Intensifying their vulnerability, many of these responses take place in countries with restrictive and violent anti-LGBTQI+ laws and policies. Even in jurisdictions where these identities are not criminalized, LGBTQIA+ needs are overlooked – even excluded – by NGOs, UN Agencies and other key actors.