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The aid sector's LGBTQI+ blindspot | Ret...

THE NEW HUMANITARIAN
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Global funding cuts are worsening emergency aid's weaknesses when it comes to the LGBTQI+ community. The Trump administration is explicitly targeting trans people. And gender-related programming is among the first to be cut as humanitarian groups scale back. But there are steps humanitarians can take today – even amid widespread budget cuts – to better respond to the needs of LGBTQI+ people in emergencies.


Guests: 


Emily Dwyer, co-founder of the humanitarian and development organisation, Edge Effect.


Jasmin Lilian Diab, director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University.
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Edge Effect

The moral imperative to protect Lebanon's LGBTIQ+ displaced

Institute for Migration Studies

 

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