Deadline: 15 November 2026
Across West Africa and specifically in Nigeria, the human rights of LGBTQI+ individuals are subject to escalating state-sanctioned criminalization, institutional discrimination, and societal hostility. In recent years, anti-rights movements fueled by global anti-gender actors, fundamentalist evangelical networks, and conservative political elites, have grown increasingly organized, well-resourced, and sophisticated.
These anti-rights opposition groups actively employ tactics such as disinformation campaigns, legal warfare, digital surveillance, and moral panics to erode community safety, dismantle civil society spaces, and criminalize frontline defenders.
Standard human rights frameworks, while valuable, often rely on Western-centric legalistic approaches that fail to address the root causes of colonial legacy laws, systemic oppression, and the socio-economic realities of our local communities.
To effectively counter the current anti-rights surge, LGBTQI+ grassroots leaders need more than basic legal literacy; they require decolonial feminist analysis, strategic counter-narrative tools, collective care frameworks, and actionable tactics to identify, dismantle, and outmaneuver anti-rights opposition.
Thank you for your interest in the ISHRAI Decolonial Leadership Summit 2026. Kindly note that this training is only open to participants in Lagos and Ogun state.