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Ministers urged to ‘stop scapegoating’ and support LGBTQIA+ refugees by 246 human rights organisations

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In a letter, 246 human rights organisations have come together to ask the Prime Minister to reaffirm the UK’s commitment to protect LGBTQIA+ people and women globally.

Standing united, the organisations have come together in solidarity to write a letter to Rishi Sunak, urging him to honour international law and respect the lives of LGBTQIA+ people and women migrants after Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s comments last week.

Produced by leading LGBTQIA+ charity Stonewall, the letter has been signed by organisations including Amnesty, Oxfam, End Violence Against Women Coalition, Refugee Council and Women for Refugee Women amongst others.

The coalition has written to Sunak to reaffirm the UK’s commitment to protect LGBTQIA+ people around the world. The letter rejects Braverman’s claim that LGBTQIA+ people and women refuges are misusing their identities to make false claims, and speaks of regret that the Home Secretary’s selective use of stats have “nothing to do with genuine concern or respect for international law, refugees or their protection.” At the American Enterprise Institute, a centre right think tank in Washington DC, Bravermen garnered uproar after stating that fear of being persecuted over being gay and/or a woman is not reason enough to claim asylum in the UK.

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