THE 3rd ANNUAL AFRICA CANADA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROMOTION 2024.

Human rights are a set of principles concerned with equality and fairness. They recognise our freedom to make choices about our lives and to develop our potential as human beings. They are about living a life free from fear, harassment or discrimination.

The African Centre for Refugees in Ontario Canada is yet again organizing the 3^rd Africa Canada International Convention on Human Rights Promotions 2025. The Convention is slated to take place from 27^th to 28^th September 2025, at Chelsea Hotel

The convention Will bring together LGBTIQ activists, allies, young leaders and stake holders from Africa and those in Canada to formulate a way forward on advancing the rights of LGBTIQ people on the African continent learning practically from Canada’s success story, pulling synergies amongst the members of the LGBTIQ movement with potential partners while creating awareness on an international platform about the risks faced by LGBTIQ people across the African continent.

The convention shall also act as an international platform where LGBTIQ people from Africa and those in Canada meet to discuss the challenges they face in terms of discrimination, limited access to health and legal services, hate and violence committed against them on the African soil. The convention shall be attended by LGBTIQ activists, LGBTIQ young leaders, allies, scholars, notable Human Rights Activists and Defenders, legal and health practioners from Africa and Africans living in Canada.

The convention shall feature topics to do with the rights of the LGBTIQ people in Africa, the challenges faced and how to address them, the available avenues Africans can exploit to get to the level of Canada in regards to safeguarding the Rights of these people and the available opportunities in regards to funding, academic, health and social-economic partnerships and developments for activists, civil society organizations and for both legal and health practitioners in regards to LGBTIQ people in Canada and Africa.