The Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration had a homecoming in the San Francisco Bay Area in an effort to drum up support and talk about its work.

“I feel very secure here,” Shapoval told the Washington Blade on July 22 during an interview at Berlin’s Palais Populaire by Deutsche Bank on the city’s Unter den Linden boulevard.

Sometimes the need for something is so urgent it must be shouted from the rooftops. In some ways, that was what the Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration (ORAM) was doing at the rooftop deck of Deutsche Bank’s New York headquarters at Columbus Circle, which overlooks the green expanse of Central Park.

In just over three months since Russia began its full-scale invasion, nearly seven million people have fled Ukraine as refugees. The vast majority are Ukrainian women and children who have been received in neighbouring countries, mainly with open arms. 

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration is working to protect and empower LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees globally

Local representatives visited two Tijuana shelters that specialize in caring for LGBTQ asylum seekers while they wait to request protection in the United States

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration is working to protect and empower LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees globally

Some African LGBTQ refugees are finding new hope in Kenya through the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration's livelihoods programs.

The Biden administration has officially ended a policy that forced asylum seekers to pursue their cases in Mexico.

The recent, tragic death of Chriton Atuhwera, a gay refugee who was the victim of an arson attack in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya, has caught international attention.

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration recently launched an in-depth research project to examine the conditions of LGBTQ asylum seekers and refugees at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya.

ORAM, the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration has announced the launch of an in-depth research project to examine the conditions for LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya.

MATAMOROS, Mexico — Natasha is a transgender woman from Honduras’ Olancho department.

The Biden administration has begun to reverse some of its predecessor’s hardline immigration policies that activists say have made LGBTQ asylum seekers and migrants even more vulnerable... 

Nearly two dozen companies in North America have agreed to mentor LGBTQ refugees as part of a new initiative announced on Tuesday... 

The video of the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25 has triggered a wave of protests against police brutality and systematic racism in the United States and around the globe...

Out Leadership’s weekly series “Equality Imperative” continues, with this broadcast being a part of the European Summit. Fabrice Houdart will hold another session on human rights-focused topics around the world...

Police attempted to disband a protest of about 60 LGBT refugees outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee's office in Kakuma, Kenya at the end of last week...

Trump executive order to suspend US immigration for 60 days...

Around 20 LGBTQ immigrants, the majority of whom are transgender women from countries throughout Latin America, are isolated and protected from the threat of the coronavirus in the Jardín de las Mariposas shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana...

Our LGBT communities are impacted in various ways by the global Coronavirus pandemic...

LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees are one of the most vulnerable and at-risk groups in the world right now.

Global LGBT organizations are responding to the impact of the coronavirus as they work to protect some of the most vulnerable queer people.

Tijuana LGBTQ migrant shelter scrambling to prepare for pandemic.

ORAM – Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration is delighted to announce the appointment of four new additions to its Board of Directors.

LGBT refugees in Nairobi, Kenya might soon find themselves homeless and without any source of income as funding for housing and other programs is rapidly drying up.

A transgender woman, Alejandra thought the authorities at the US southern border would protect her. Instead, she was given an assigned number in the thousands and told to wait in Tijuana until it was called.

Once again Spencer is on the cover of an issue of Outword, and why not? Handsome, wildly talented, and coming to Sacramento!

Soap is a necessity to maintain good hygiene, but for the thousands of refugees living in Kenya's notorious Kakuma refugee camp, soap, shampoo, and conditioner are costly commodities to come by.

Steve Roth with be here on Sidebar! He is the CEO of the ORAM Foundation. It is an international organization to help save LGBT refugees in hostile places.

Steve Roth has been tapped to head the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration.

Much of the focus during WorldPride last month may have been on the parties and parades, but among the many events produced was the Human Rights Conference. 

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration's founder and leader announced he would be stepping down from the LGBT-focused organization after a decade of advocating for queers fleeing persecution and violence in their homelands.

The Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya held its first LGBTQ pride event on Saturday, but now the event’s organizers are in fear for their lives.

Imagine having to flee your own country because of being persecuted for who you are and for who you love. Imagine reaching Europe and being locked up in a detention centre at constant risk of being assaulted. Imagine having to restart your life in a foreign country, in poverty, and at risk of being sexually exploited.

NAIROBI, KENYA — Stephen Maate has had to flee for his safety more than once. The first time came when he was 17. He’d been caught embracing a boy from school and his family turned him out.

When faced with the kind of brutality currently being shown to gay and bi men in Chechnya, the natural impulse is to look for something—anything—that we can do to stand against it. But for a situation so remote and opaque, it’s hard to know where to begin. OutRight Action International has one easy suggestion: Tag Chechnya’s strong-man president on Instagram.

NAIROBI, KENYA — Stephen Maate has had to flee for his safety more than once. The first time came when he was 17. He’d been caught embracing a boy from school and his family turned him out.

DENIZLI, Turkey — A group of 12 queer Iranians in hiding in Turkey had gathered for a small party on Tuesday night when someone spotted the report that President Donald Trump planned to stop resettling refugees in the United States.

More often than not in the discourse around gender and climate change, the word “gender” is used primarily to refer to women.

You can understand why Subhi Nahas and his boyfriend, Mark Averett, might be looking a little shell-shocked—in the happiest way—as they exit the elevator of their swish Manhattan hotel, bedecked in rainbow flags.

Last August, two gay men living under the threat of ISIS testified before a special session of the Security Council, which is the body of the United Nations charged with tackling threats to international peace and security.

Walking down the street while holding hands with his boyfriend could have gotten Subhi Nahas tortured and killed in his hometown of Idlib, Syria, where he says hardline militias target gay men and execute them.

San Francisco Film Festival's “Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America” introduces us to four young LGBTQ refugees who came to San Francisco from the Congo, Angola, and Syria. The Syrian man in that film, Subhi Nahas, was taken in by a couple in Oakland when he first arrived. 

The secret, hypocritical gay world of ISIS.

Refugees and asylees from 23 countries can now ask to bring their same-sex partners with them to the U.S., even if they are not legally married.

Group Praises Obama on Refugees, Advocates for LGBT Slots 

It's not safe to be gay in Syria. All same-sex sexual activity is illegal -- LGBT people can face prison sentences of up to three years if their sexual orientation is exposed, and while it's unsafe for just about everyone in Syria right now, the persecution of the LGBT community has gotten even worse than it used to be in the midst of Syria's civil war.

LGBT individuals who escaped from Islamic State rule in Iraq and Syria say basic steps in the resettlement process for individuals persecuted for their sexual and gender identity are still arduous.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people face specific challenges in their global fight for equality that goes beyond marriage, advocates say.