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Bisi Alimi, a gay activist who fled persecution in Nigeria and is now living in the United Kingdom has been appointed as the new Executive Director for Safe Place International- Greece [SPG]. He will be spearheading LGBTQ+ advocacy for SPG thus making him one of the few refugees heading an international refugee organization. His appointment comes at a time when most African states continue to systematically persecute and discriminate against the LGBTQ+ communities. Alimi earned a master’s degree in Global Governance and Public Policy from Birkbeck College, University of London and was recently offered the John Stopford Scholarship to study for a Masters in Executive Coaching program at Meyler Campbell Coaching School. He has also given a number of international public speeches and lectures where he has narrated his passion for LGBTQ+ rights. In 2004, Alimi became the first man in Nigeria to openly disclose his sexual orientation and HIV positive status thus triggering the persecuti...

  The recent comments by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which links migration to the spread of the coronavirus, represents cheap political rhetoric aimed at denigrating the immigrant community in Hungary. Arguably, this is in line with some far-right-wing camps in Europe who are stoking up xenophobic fears against refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants at a time when the world is facing its greatest test since World War II from the coronavirus pandemic. According to media reports, Orbán has extreme views on migration. He was recently quoted as saying that migration and the pandemic coronavirus are intertwined as “both spread with movement.” The Hungarian populist leader has also over the past years categorized immigrants in derogatory terms. In an interview with the Germany daily Bild newspaper in 2016, he emphatically said migration was “poison” and by accepting immigrants, European countries will be “importing terrorism, crime, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.” The recent r...