Tag: Africa
Video Series Highlights Exclusion of LGBTIQ Africans from Social, Political, Economic Spheres
OutRight Action International, the global human rights organisation, is releasing a video series starting Tuesday, Nov. 17th, that explores how LGBTIQ Africans are excluded from mainstream social, political and economic participation in most countries—in violation of their basic human rights.
Historic EU-Africa Summit overshadowed by anti-LGBT laws
The fourth EU-Africa Summit is taking place in Brussels since yesterday, and although not officially on the agenda, extremely harsh new anti-LGBT laws will be on leaders’ minds.
Gay Ugandan King Proves that Homosexuality is African
Rights group cites last monarch before British invasion as evidence that anti-homosexuality bill gets it wrong.
Gays in Africa face rise in state-sponsored homophobia
Some think the apparent rise in state-sponsored homophobia could be a response to increased demands for human rights from the gay community.
London rally against Uganda anti-gay Bill
Fifty, mostly African, campaigners rallied outside the Uganda High Commission in London yesterday (8 January) to urge the Ugandan president to not sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that was passed by the Ugandan parliament on 20 December 2013.
Same-sex attracted men neglected in Africa
HIV-related research and programming has excluded same-sex attracted men in Africa for three decades. Their exclusion cannot be accounted for by the assertion that they are unreachable, says Norwegian researcher.