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Can aid and LGBT rights be compatible?

 

A flagship half-day event for key UK and international stakeholders exploring whether international aid can play a role in defending lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in developing countries.

 

Chair:

 

Simon Fanshawe OBE (Author and member of Kaleidoscope Trust Board of Directors)

 

Introduction and welcome

Kevin Watkins (Executive Director at ODI)

 

Panellists

 

Ms Elizabeth Ohene (Ghanaian journalist, former BBC presenter and former Minister of Information)

 

Mr Sunil Pant (Head of Blue Diamond Society, a leading gay rights group in Nepal, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee)

 

Ms Jessica Horn (Women's rights consultant, Akiiki Consulting)

 

Dr Elizabeth Mills (Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Convenor of the Sexuality, Poverty and Law Programme)

 

Ms Bjørg Sandkjær (Senior advisor NORAD Department for Global Health, Education and Research)

 

Mr Fabrice Houdart (World Bank Senior country officer in Maghreb)

 

Mr Ajit Joshi (Senior LGBT Advisor for USAID)

 

Ms Marta Foresti (Director Politics and Governance programme at ODI)

Done