LGBTI
South Africa: Lesbian killers jailed
2012-02-01, Issue 568
Four men were jailed for 18 years on Wednesday for stabbing and stoning 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana to death in 2006. Lubabalo Ntlabathi, Sicelo Mase, Luyanda Londzi and Mbulelo Damba were sentenced by the Khayelitsha Regional Court to 18 ye...
Africa: UN chief urges respect for gay rights
2012-02-02, Issue 568
While speaking to delegates at the African Union’s summit, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged stronger protection of homosexual rights. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over the weekend urged African leaders to respect gay rights....
Ghana: Mills rules out legalising homosexuality
2012-02-05, Issue 568
The President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, has stated that as a responsible leader he will ensure that gay marriages are never legalised in the country and on the African continent as a whole. President Mills’ comments come after the UN Secretary...
Africa: Pan-African alliance formed
2012-02-06, Issue 568
Three African transgender and intersex rights advocacy organizations have formed an alliance to enhance the trans and intersex movement on the continent. The organizations include South African based Gender DynamiX (GDX), Uganda’s Support Initiative ...
South Africa: Zulu king's 'homophobic utterances' to be investigated
2012-01-24, Issue 567
The South African Human Rights Commission said on Monday that it would be writing to King Goodwill Zwelithini following reports that he made homophobic comments at a function attended by President Jacob Zuma. Zwelithini reportedly told guests at the ...
South Africa: Pretoria conference discusses LGBTI and human rights
2012-01-18, Issue 566
The Aids and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa (Arasa) has organised a meeting for rights organisations to discuss human rights issues with a focus on LGBTI issues. It brings together human rights defenders from Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho,...
Nigeria: LGBTI activists and the fuel strike
2012-01-18, Issue 566
What did the removal of the fuel subsidy mean for the LGBT community in Nigeria amongst other Nigerian citizens? The strike and protests had one positive effect for the LGBT community in that they brought mainstream civil society activists closer to ...
Global: International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2012
2012-01-19, Issue 566
The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) Committee is seeking organisation's activities for the next International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in 2012 and have issued a letter relating to the day which can be read t...
South Africa: 'Set me free so I can become a cop'
2012-01-11, Issue 565
30 January 2012 is the latest date set for the sentencing of Zoliswa Nkonyana’s murderers, according to blog Writing Rights. Nkonyana was killed because she was lesbian. Activist Zackie Achmat writes in commentary on a reposted news article on the si...
Uganda: Call for anti reproductive rights laws to be scrapped
2012-01-16, Issue 565
A Ugandan advocate for sex workers and homosexual rights, Busingye Kabumba has said prostitution and anti-abortion laws should be repealed to encourage the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young women. Kabumba, a lecturer at Makerere Univ...
Ghana: Education ministry 'optimistic' it can stop homosexuality
2011-12-14, Issue 563
A spokesman for Ghana’s Education Ministry has told the Accra Mail he is confident a programme in which teachers warn students of the 'adverse consequences' of being gay will make it 'a thing of the past'. LGBT Asylum News points out that the deputy ...
Africa: Britain's half-hearted fight for gay rights
2011-12-14, Issue 563
The United Kingdom has been surprisingly silent about Nigeria’s harsh new laws targeting homosexuals. This would be the perfect situation for the British government to launch its much-heralded policy of cutting aid money to countries that discriminat...
South Africa: Groundbreaking precedent in hate crimes case
2011-12-20, Issue 563
On Friday, 9 December, OUT, represented by Webber Wentzel Attorneys, was successfully admitted as amicus curiae in the sentencing phase of a hate crimes trial in the Germiston Magistrates Court. The success of OUT’s application is ground breaking on ...
Africa: New report on lives of women-loving-women
2011-12-21, Issue 563
This report is the result of the work of an amazing group of women from Asia and Africa who came together to research the conditions of women in same-sex relations in their countries. With great determination and courage they set about revealing the ...
Nigeria: Campaign groups protest anti gay bill
2011-12-08, Issue 562
Members of the campaign group, Nigerians in Diaspora Against Anti Same-Sex Laws held a protest in front of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in New York on Monday, 5 December. A Nigerian representative in New York met with the protestors...
Cameroon: Moves to strengthen anti gay laws
2011-12-08, Issue 562
Alternatives Cameroon, an LGBTI organisation, reports that government policy makers last week convened to endorse a preliminary draft of a law that imposes harsher penalties for homosexual acts. The organisation revealed that the government convened ...
Malawi: Malawi to review homosexuality law
2011-12-12, Issue 562
Malawi will review a series of controversial laws, including a ban on homosexual acts, Justice Minister Ephraim Chiume has said. Chiume said the review was in response to 'public opinion'. Western governments criticised Malawi last year for jailing a gay couple on sodomy charges....
Ethiopia: Gay gathering sparks row between church and state
2011-11-29, Issue 560
A meeting organised by an African gay lobby group ahead of an AIDS conference in Ethiopia has sparked a rare spat between the government and religious groups. Religious leaders demand the cancellation of the gathering scheduled for Saturday, organise...
Nigeria: Senate outlaws same-sex marriage
2011-11-30, Issue 560
The Nigerian senate on 29 November passed a bill prohibiting same-sex marriage. Termed Same-Sex Prohibition Bill, it stipulates a 10-year jail term for offenders. Announcing the passage of the bill, Senate president David Mark said that marriage betw...
Uganda: Call for materials on David Kato
2011-12-01, Issue 560
This is a call for materials for a biographical book on the life, work and legacy of David Kisule Kato – the deceased Ugandan human rights defender for sexual (and other) minorities. The biography is being developed and written by researchers in the ...
South Africa: Sentencing postponed in lesbian murder case
2011-11-23, Issue 559
Four men convicted of murdering a lesbian near Cape Town will receive their sentences just before Christmas. Zoliswa Nkonyana,19, was stabbed and stoned to death in Khayelitsha on 4 February 2006. Since the trial began, gay rights campaigners and res...
South Africa: Interrogating the notion of ‘corrective rape’
2011-11-27, Issue 559
Recent media reports have shown a rise in attacks against lesbian women in townships across South Africa. The nature of the violence includes assault, often with grievous bodily harm, rape, murder or any combination of these. The sexual violence perp...
Nigeria: Confusion over same-sex marriage bill
2011-11-27, Issue 559
Unconfirmed reports about the Nigerian National Assembly claim that the Nigerian Senate may have already voted on the controversial prohibition of Same-sex Marriage Bill. However, Nigeria LGBT human rights activists are uncertain about information on...
Cameroon: Call for jailed men to be released
2011-11-27, Issue 559
The Cameroonian authorities must immediately release two men who have been sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Yaounde for homosexual acts, Amnesty International said. A third man was sentenced without being present after jumping bail. Th...
Nigeria: Tightening the noose on gay rights
2011-11-16, Issue 558
Rights groups in Nigeria fear a same-sex marriage bill being discussed in parliament could boost already prevalent discrimination against homosexuals. The bill goes much further than banning same-sex marriage; it threatens to ban the formation of gro...
Cameroon: Gay rights lawyer warns of rise in homophobia
2011-11-17, Issue 558
The Cameroon government has introduced a bill to the national assembly that would give formal, political backing to section 347 of the country's penal code that criminalises consensual sex between adults of the same gender. 'It's getting worse,' Came...
South Africa: Proposals to combat hate crimes
2011-11-17, Issue 558
The activism and advocacy team of Cape Town LGBTI grouping Free Gender have submitted proposals to the South African Police Services (SAPS) aimed at combating hate crimes. The proposals include the creation of a ‘Task Team’ at the local level to incl...
Uganda: UN Global Fund cuts ARV cash
2011-11-20, Issue 558
The Global Fund has denied Uganda $270m (about Sh700b) needed to put over 100,000 more people on lifesaving ARVs because the country’s policies are deemed harsh on sexual minorities. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created...
Global: Mixed news for LGBTI persons from CHOGM meetings
2011-11-09, Issue 557
While the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Australia included no commitment to oppose homophobic persecution and to protect the human rights of LGBTI persons, Commonwealth of Nations Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma did speak out ...
Uganda: 30-year sentence in Kato murder case
2011-11-10, Issue 557
A Ugandan court on Thursday 10 November sentenced the man suspected to have murdered a gay rights activist in January this year, to 30 years in prison. The 30 year sentence was passed by Justice Joseph Mulangira after the man admitted to have murdere...
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