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UNHCR must address suffering of LGBTI refugees in Kenya

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LGBTI activists in the U.S., Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the U.K. and other countries are expressing a growing concern about the way in which a considerable group of African LGBTI refugees, or at least part of them, are being treated in Kenya.

Whereas they appreciate the efforts of UNHCR (the U.N. Refugee Agency), they also deplore the continuous cries of despair coming out of Kenya, especially from LGBTI refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp.

We urge UNHCR to take these claims and problems more seriously and to open a serious dialogue with the aim of improving the situation considerably.

This needs to happen in the short term.Homosexuality is criminalized in all but a few countries in Africa, which means that LGBTI people live.

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