We are delighted to announce some of our confirmed speakers for the LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth conference. You can register for the event here.

Key Note Speakers

Conference speakers:

Silvan Agius – Policy Coordinator (Human Rights), Government of Malta

Bisi Alimi – LGBT/HIV advocate and lecturer, Free University of Berlin (Nigeria).

Dr. Barbara Bompani, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Morgan Carpenter – Intersex activist and researcher, President of Organisation Intersex International Australia.

Jonathan Cooper – Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust. He is a barrister and human rights specialist.

Jermaine Grant – University of Ghana alumni and former lecturer, awarded this year’s Chevening Scholarship for Guyana.

Pauline Kelly – Media and Campaigns Officer, Amnesty International – Scotland.

Pallav Patankar – Director of Humsafar Trust, Mumbai, India.

Shanon Shah – singer-songwriter, playwright and journalist from Malaysia.

Alistair Stewart – Assistant Director of the Kaleidoscope Trust

Mayur Suresh – Legal representative, Voices Against 377 (India)

Monica Tabengwa – Human rights defender and an activist from Botswana, now based in Kenya.

Peter Tatchell – Campaigner for human rights, democracy, LGBT freedom and global justice

Dr. Matthew Waites – Senior Lecturer in Sociology, co-editor of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: School of Advanced Study, 2013)

Full biographies to follow and more speakers to be announced.