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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May 21, 2021
A Gold Medal for Homophobia in Japan
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April 28, 2021
New York City Government Votes to Promote Intersex Rights
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April 7, 2021
How to Chart an Equitable Exit from the Pandemic
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January 28, 2021
77 Lashes for a Gay Couple in Indonesia
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January 14, 2021
Momentum Builds Around Intersex Protection in India
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December 1, 2020
Netherlands Apologizes for Transgender Sterilizations
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September 10, 2020
Video Demonstrates Chechnya Leadership’s Brutality
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August 12, 2020
Poland Punishes LGBT Rights Activist with Pretrial Detention
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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