Kyle Knight
Kyle Knight is a senior researcher on health and LGBT rights at Human Rights Watch. Previously he was a fellow at the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, and a Fulbright scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Nepal and for the UN’s humanitarian news service (IRIN), reporting from Burma, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He has worked for UNAIDS, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and in the children’s rights and health and human rights divisions at Human Rights Watch. He sits on the editorial board of the Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health Journal. He has a BA in cultural anthropology from Duke University and a Masters of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Articles Authored
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October 27, 2015
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October 26, 2015
Dispatches: The Courage to Combat Indonesia’s Homophobia
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October 26, 2015
Nepal's Third Gender Passport Blazes Trails
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October 14, 2015
How Nepal’s Constitution Got Queered
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October 8, 2015
Dispatches: A Blueprint for Transgender Rights in Asia
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October 7, 2015
Dispatches: Transforming Transgender Rights in Poland
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September 21, 2015
Dispatches: Thailand Acts to End LGBT Discrimination
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August 10, 2015
Dispatches: Nepal’s Transgender Passport Progress
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July 30, 2015
The Olympics and "Gay Propaganda" in Kazakhstan
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Other Writing
Reports Authored
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“We Have to Beg So Many People”
Human Rights Violations in Nepal’s Legal Gender Recognition Practices
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“Scared in Public and Now No Privacy”
Human Rights and Public Health Impacts of Indonesia’s Anti-LGBT Moral Panic
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