Drawing on African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC)’s long-standing documentation, protection, and country-conditions work across Africa, the report exposes patterns of sexualized violence, forced marriage, family expulsion, and State-enabled harm that are frequently excluded from both women’s rights and LGBTI protection frameworks.

By centering LBQ women’s lived realities and structural protection failures, the report calls for urgent accountability and concrete reforms across humanitarian, asylum, and human-rights systems.

The report further situates these patterns within a shifting global protection landscape, noting with concern that the United States has stepped back from key human-rights guardrails through the suspension or curtailment of regular international reporting and engagement mechanisms.