Reaching out to refugees persecuted for sexual orientation, gender identity
Q&A: Reaching out to refugees persecuted for sexual orientation, gender identity News Stories , 29 June 2011 © ORAM Neil Grungras, founder and executive director of the San Francisco-based Organisation for Refuge, Asylum and Migration. WASHINGTON, DC, United States, June 29 (UNHCR) – Advocates like Neil Grungras are vital as accounts increasingly emerge of persecution and violence towards refugees and asylum-seekers in parts of the world based on sexual grounds. Grungras has spent many years advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex refugees and asylum-seekers, and is the founder and executive director of the San Francisco-based Organisation for Refuge, Asylum and Migration (ORAM). ORAM's work includes education, representation, advocacy and capacity building on LGBTI issues. UNHCR Public Information Intern Dasha Smith spoke to him during a recent forum on LGBTI refugee protection in Washington, DC. Excerpts from the interview: You've been wo...