Tag: Tanzania
Governments Around the World Are Using Laws to Silence LGBTIQ Civil Society
Last week, OutRight Action International launches their latest report, The Global State of LGBTI Organising: The Right to Register.
Homophobic Tanzanian police arrest woman for lesbian kiss video
Tanzanian police have arrested a woman who appeared in a video showing a kiss between two women that went viral on social media.
Homophobic Tanzania deports three South Africans for ‘promoting homosexuality’
Tanzania has deported three South African lawyers arrested last week for “promoting homosexuality”, their organisation said in a statement.
Global Medical Body Condemns Forced Anal Exams
Doctors, medical professionals, and national medical associations should heed the World Medical Association’s October 2017 resolution to end forced anal examinations on people accused of homosexual conduct, Human Rights Watch said today.
WHO : Calls on all gays to take HIV medicine
Failure to provide adequate HIV services for key groups – men who have sex with men, people in prison, people who inject drugs, sex workers and transgender people – threatens global progress on the HIV response, warns WHO.
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.