Musa Daura, Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5 Headquarters, Benin, Edo, on Thursday said six suspected homosexuals had been arrested in Benin City.
Today, the Human Rights Campaign, (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, stands in solidarity with LGBT advocates and allies as anti-LGBT activists descended on Barbados for a regional gathering hosted by the World Congress of Families (WCF).
The last few years have witnessed an unnerving backlash against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) people in twenty countries, including Russia, Morocco, Uganda, Brunei, Syria, Nigeria and The Gambia.
In a resolution adopted yesterday, the European Parliament has expressed its concern regarding “discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Fifty African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex ( LGBTI ) people picketed the global Anglian Primates meeting at Canterbury Cathedral in England on Friday 15 January 2016.
On the eve of an international summit at which thousands of anti-LGBT activists will gather from around the world, HRC is standing up for LGBT Americans and their families, and against the World Congress of Families (WCF) and its network of affiliates exporting anti-LGBT hate across the globe.
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