By Melanie Nathan, May 28, 2026. After years in the field, I now spend many of my days researching how to stop governments, mobs, police, prisons, and even families from destroying human beings. Then I open social media and strangers inform me that I am a monster because I am a Jew. Let us wind … More The Irony of Expert Research and the One Click Expert Hater
A Critical Reflection on Ghana’s New Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 By Melanie Nathan, May 17, 2026 The reintroduction of Ghana’s Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 represents one of the most sweeping attempts in modern Africa to criminalize not merely same-sex conduct, but identity itself, together with advocacy, association, … More Sovereignty, Culture, and Human Dignity: Ghana’s New Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill
Violations of International and Regional Human Rights Law. African Human rights Coalition – An Open Letter to Congressional Black Caucus, Leadership of the NAACP, UNESCO : Why Ghana Is Not a Safe Host for the 2026 Reparatory Justice Conference | This Letter was first published here at the African Human Rights Coalition website Ghana has … More Ghana’s Anti-LGBTQ Bill Undermines Global Reparations Conference in Accra
By Melanie Nathan, April 13, 2026. This petition and open letter call on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to move beyond limited past remarks and take sustained, meaningful action on Uganda’s escalating human rights crisis. While Mamdani previously expressed opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) in response to being pictured with Rebecca Kadaga, he … More After Limited Response, Calls Grow for NYC Mayor Mamdani to Confront Uganda’s Anti-LGBTQ Regime
By Melanie Nathan, April 06, 2026. Mamdani ran for Mayor of New York and won. Tanya Tsikanovsky, aka @HighlyJewish is running for City Council of WEHO (West Hollywood) – From two extremes they are the same political strain! Mamdani represents a familiar and increasingly sophisticated strain of far-left politics that cloaks its sharpest edges in … More Mamdani is HighlyJewish and HighlyJewish is Mamdani
By Melanie Nathan, April 01, 2026. I left West Hollywood for the Bay Area many years ago, yet West Hollywood lives in me. It is where I first landed as an immigrant, coming to terms with my sexuality in the 1980s. It is where I found refuge, safety, and a place to belong. It gave … More MAGA Supporter Seeks Seat on West Hollywood City Council
The visit of Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, to Philadelphia for a diaspora “community dialogue” hosted by Temple University Center for Anti-Racism alongside the Ghana Chamber of Commerce arrives under a cloud that cannot be ignored. That Lincoln University withdrew its planned honorary doctorate underscores the gravity of the moment and that perhaps some institutions … More Center for Anti-Racism Temple Univ – Hosting Ghanaian President, who will sign New Horrific ANTI-LGBTQI+ Law
by Melanie Nathan, March 10, 2026 As Ghana is poised to pass its new Anti-Homosexuality law, disguised in its western imported shroud of so called “family values” Ghana is set to host the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Anti-LGBTQ Conference on “Family, Sovereignty and Values” in Accra from May 27–30, 2026 — marking the first time the … More Uganda and Ghana are Buddying up for the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Anti-LGBTQ Conference
As Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen and Senator Cory Booker call for accountability following Uganda’s deeply flawed elections, the Mayor of New York City—a dual U.S.–Ugandan citizen who benefits from wealth and privilege in Uganda—has chosen silence in the face of abhorrent human rights abuses and systemic injustice. Museveni has ruled Uganda for nearly forty years. … More Where is Zohran Mamdani as U.S. Committee on Foreign Relations Calls on Uganda for Accountability
By Melanie Nathan, January 04, 2025 Global focus has shifted sharply toward Venezuela, driven by the United States and framed through President Donald Trump’s openly stated ambition for dominance in the Americas. That ambition was made explicit yesterday when Trump publicly clarified the purpose of the U.S. invasion of Venezuela. The statement stunned international observers … More Trump’s Venezuela is the Greatest Gift to Museveni
Bobi Wine vs. the State: Uganda’s 2026 Choice in the Shadow of a 40-Year Presidency Uganda’s 2026 presidential campaign is not merely a contest between candidates; it is a confrontation between democratic possibility and entrenched authoritarian power after more than four decades of uninterrupted rule. At its center stands Bobi Wine, an artist turned parliamentarian … More From Uganda to New York: When Bobi Wine’s Campaign Is Under Attack, Silence Is Not an Option for Zohran Mamdani
By Melanie Nathan, Dec 29, 2025. Downtown Hargeisa late on Friday was illuminated with the Israeli flag as residents of Somaliland’s capital celebrated Jerusalem’s decision to recognize their sovereignty. The recognition of Somaliland acknowledges a poignant reality and benefits the people of Somaliland, Israel and the West. Recognition and the response ought to trigger more … More The Benefits of Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland
Understanding Nigerian Muslims are not at war with Christians and vice versa…. By Melanie Nathan, Dec 26, 2025. Each time violence linked to ISIS erupts in Nigeria, a dangerous shorthand resurfaces in international commentary: Muslims attacking Christians. This framing is not only false; it actively fuels the very instability extremist groups seek to create. Under … More Nigeria Is Not at War With Islam — is America?
By Melanie Nathan – December 21, 2025. This essay is a call to rethink how LGBTQI+ funding is allocated in this time of unprecedented crisis, and to ensure that survival, not visibility, is treated as the first obligation of global solidarity. It is a call for partnerships from foundations, funders, donors and LGBTQI+ organizations. A … More During Global Crisis Are U.S. LGBTQI+ Funding Priorities a Moral Failure
When Protection Is Denied to Asylum Seekers Before It Is Heard: Across the current U.S. asylum landscape, individuals fleeing persecution are increasingly being sent to countries with which they have no legal, social, or historical connection—places they have never lived, where they have no community, and where they cannot safely exist. For LGBTQI+ asylum seekers, … More Country Conditions Expert for Uganda – Pretermission, Third-Country Removal, Facing LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers
Human Rights Campaign PAC, Equality California, Equality PAC, LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus Endorse California State Sen. Scott Wiener for U.S. House A Committed Defender of LGBTQ+ Rights in the Golden State, Wiener Seeks Seat Long Held by Retiring Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi WASHINGTON — Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) PAC, the nation’s … More Major endorsements for Scott Weiner in run for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat in Congress
No sitting President should chose division, dehumanization, and fear over the fundamental duty to lead with dignity, restraint, and respect for all human life. Trumps Poconos Speech is one of the most racially inflammatory ever, leading to chants in the crowd reminiscent of KKK lynch rallies of bygone years.. By Melanie Nathan, Dec 10, 2025 … More A duty to Condemn Trump’s Racist and Xenophobic Lynch-Like Speech
Cheering for the Brutal, while Silent for the Dead and Brutalized, By Melanie Nathan, Dec 05, 2025 More than 200 “cultural icons” have now put their names to a letter demanding the release of Marwan Barghouti , a man serving five life sentences plus 40 years in Israel, for orchestrating attacks during the Second Intifada … More Watching My Cultural Icons’ Moral Collapse in their Stand With Terrorism
Nourishment Is Survival: Why Your Support Matters Now Across transit shelters, informal safe houses, and refugee camps in several African countries, LGBTQI+ refugees depend almost entirely on African Human Rights Coalition’s rations to survive. We do not have enough to continue past January 31, 2026. These refugees are forcibly displaced by criminalization, violence, and state-sponsored … More When Survival Becomes a Diet: The Reality of Daily Rations
Raises Alarming Human Rights Concerns By Melanie Nathan, Dec 02, 2025. The African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) has received confirmation of a case in Burkina Faso in which a foreign national was convicted under the country’s newly enacted anti-LGBTQ provisions. According to publicly available information released by the Burkina Faso Ministry of Justice, the individual … More Burkina Faso: First Known Conviction Under New Anti-LGBTQ Law
By Melanie Nathan, Nov 27, 2025. Donald Trump announced on social media, he will not invite South Africa to next year’s G20 summit in Miami. This snub escalates Trump’s rebukes against the country for its alleged discrimination of its white population. U.S. officials boycotted this month’s G20 talks — an annual meeting of world leaders … More President Ramaphosa Statement on Trump and South Africa’s participation in the 2026 G20 meetings.
By Melanie Nathan, Nov 27, 2025. Why Trump’s Retreat From Africa Endangers Israel’s Future: “Power vacuums in Africa become power blocs at the U.N.- rarely in Israel’s favor.” During the last presidential election I warned fellow Jews, often to uncomfortable silence, unfriending, or cancellation, that Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy, democratic norms, and global … More TRUMPS DUMP OF AFRICA ENDANGERS ISRAEL
By Melanie Nathan, Nov 26, 2025 While we are focused on the Epstein Files – The Vacuum Trump Created: How U.S. Disengagement from Africa Strengthened China and Russia and Weakened America’s Global Standing When historians look back at the geopolitical shifts of the 2020s, they will not see them as accidents or inevitabilities. They will … More Trump Surrenders Africa to China and Russia Undermining U.S. Global Influence
By Melanie Nathan, NOV 20, 2025. THE MARY BRUCE FREEDOM– Mary Bruce did something profoundly simple and profoundly necessary: she asked the questions a democracy demands. In the Oval Office — the symbolic center of American power. She raised issues Trump wanted buried: Saudi entanglements, the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and the still-concealed Epstein files. … More Mary Bruce’s Courage Insists on a Wake up for Journalism
By Melanie Nathan, Nov 11, 2025. I sat only feet away from Emily Damari as she spoke, her voice steady, her truth unflinching. I watched her courage, so raw, it pierced. And in that moment, I felt something shift inside me. I realized that for all my years of advocacy, all the times I’ve raised … More Courage After Emily
On Truffles, Trauma, and the Collapse of Political Courage By Melanie Nathan, Nov 10, 2025, I grew up with white-person privilege in South Africa, watching Apartheid rise to its peak and then crack under the weight of resistance, sanctions, and unimaginable suffering. Forty million disenfranchised Black South Africans — the majority — had to endure … More When the People Are Stronger Than Their Politicians
By Melanie Nathan, Nov. 03 How we vote is not a technicality of politics; it is a mirror of our character. In a democracy, every ballot is a moral statement about who we are and what we are willing to endorse. When we choose leaders, we are also choosing whose lives matter, which cruelties we … More On Our Way to Voting Booth – Who we Vote for is WHO WE ARE!
The Ripple Effects — From Kampala to Queens By Melanie Nathan, Country Conditions Expert on African LGBTQI+ Refugees and Executive Director, African Human Rights Coalition, written in my personal capacity. Silence can be a kind of betrayal — especially when the person staying silent is the one asking for our votes. When Uganda passed its … More More Than Just a Photograph: Why New York’s Queer Community Should Not Be Voting for Zohran Mamdani
By Melanie Nathan, oct 30 2025. Every October the U.S. president is bound by Congress to publish how many refugees will come into the country for the following year. This Presidential Determination (PD) on Refugee Admissions for for year 2026 is now public and in the Federal Register (set to be published tomorrow) – here … More Trump’s Racist Cruelty Glares in Historic Low Refugee Numbers
By Melanie Nathan, Oct 24, 2025 When governments criminalize identity—whether via immigration policy or sexual orientation laws—they coerce people into the shadows to flee danger, yet the underground offers no safety at all—only a stopgap for immediate survival. Under Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns, thousands of immigrants, and even U.S. citizens of color, live under the … More Underground Lives: Criminalization and Fear Build Hidden Societies
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