NWIRP wins City of Seattle Human Rights Award: Read the press release.

Ninth Circuit grants NWIRP case in another published decision ruling that there exists a pattern and practice of persecution against gay men in Jamaica!: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled yesterday that “there exists in Jamaica a pattern or practice of persecution of gay men” and that a gay Jamaican man may be entitled to protection from deportation as a result. The court’s ruling was issued in the case of Damion Bromfield, a Jamaican man who has been detained for 43 months at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma while he fights deportation.