In another blow to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Hungary, on July 13, the Hungarian ernment proposed a bill that exclus transgenr women om a women-only pensn scheme. The bill is expected to go to parliament September.
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- GAY TRAVELLERS TO GAMBIA - GAMBIA FOM
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- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGES GOV’T TO PROTECT GAYS
- GAMBIA ANTI GAY BILL IS A SER HUMAN RIGHTS SETBACK
GAY TRAVELLERS TO GAMBIA - GAMBIA FOM
LGBT Rights Gambia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights gambia *
Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (up to life prison as punishment)Censorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnnN/ADiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. The law do not addrs discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or tersex (LGBTQI+) persons regardg sential goods and servic such as hog, employment, and accs to ernment servic, cludg health re. The first time we vised there were 2 Brish men our hotel who appeared to be iends but we did notice ty subtle touch that said to that perhaps they were gay (ty subtle touch that perhaps a Gambian wouldn't notice the same as we, beg om the same culture, would).
FOLLOW ONGUNJURONLE - LATT NEWS STORI OM GUNJUR, GAMBIA AND AROUND THE WORLDHOMEABOUT USLATT NEWSEDUTNENVIRONMENTHEALTHCULTUREPOLICSENTERTAMENTLEGALSPORTSGUNJUR NEWSGAMBIA NEWSGUNJURONLE TVOPNWHAT'S ON GUNJUREDORIALOPNCONTACT USNEWSPODSTMOREUSE TAB TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE MENU EMS.GUNJUR ONLE - LATT NEWS PRS RELEASE OBUARYBREAKG NEWSLEGALNEWSTOP STORYHISTORYEDUTNENVIRONMENTEDORIAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENTPROFILESPORTSPOLICSENTERTAMENTOPNBS HUMAN RIGHTSGUNJUR CULTUREENERGYSUPER NAWETTANHEALTH GAMBIADISTRICTGUNJUR NEWSGAMBIA NEWSFANCEAITOURISMSEARCHLOG / SIGN UPGUNJURONLEMAY 20, 20202 M READOUTRAGE AS EU REP LLS FOR GAY RIGHTS THE GAMBIA
* gay rights gambia *
Same advice as above, you will have no problems, Jt to go off track s a jail sentence if a man and a woman get ught havg any sort of sex a public place, so if two gay people get ught Mmm, Im not sayg that's what you will be gettg up to, but jt act like you are jt mat on holiday, which sence that's what you are and you will have no problems, enjoy your holiday,. The European Unn Ambassador and Head of Delegatn to The Gambia, Attila LAJOS, has e unr heavy cricism for suggtg that The Gambia should unbanned homosexualy the untry as the 1997 nstutn entrenched the right of every Gambian, regardls of sexual orientatn. Engagg homosexual act The Gambia is also a crimal Ambassador and Head of Delegatn to The Gambia, Attila LajosThe EU Rep ma the ll tweets unr the “EU Gambia” Twter handle, much to the anger of some Gambians, some of whom have asked for him to be clared persona non grata The Gambia.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
As the sl tip on gay marriage the U.S., brewg cultural and polil ndns breeds a proxy war of LGBT rights Ai. * gay rights gambia *
In as much as we have unwaverg rpect and love for human rights and digny, I want to reerate that gayism is barbaric, humanizg, panyaric and have no place our social fiber as a untry strivg to get s narrative right. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.
The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION URGES GOV’T TO PROTECT GAYS
Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.
The same article also targets the “rnal knowledge of an animal” and impos the same prison sentence as rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature – meang, of urse, that homosexualy is to be equal to btialy the ey of the law. The ls ntroversial exampl of aggravated homosexualy clu those people who have sex wh someone unr 18 years of age, those who have sex wh their children, those who have sex wh someone unr their thory, and those who admister dgs to people before havg sex wh them.
It also means that any gay person livg Uganda or The Gambia mt eher flee (as Jammeh stcted them to do 2008, threateng them wh beheadg if they didn’t), or live fear of life imprisonment, or worse. Amnty Internatnal has reported that sce the act was passed, a group of spected homosexuals (both women and men) were round up by the Natnal Intelligence Agency, where they were tortured and held whout charge. In both Uganda and The Gambia, the terratg suatn has bee a dangero, vlent, state-endorsed mpaign of outright hatred agast homosexuals, which may yet late to a adly suatn for an already endangered and embattled populatn.
GAMBIA ANTI GAY BILL IS A SER HUMAN RIGHTS SETBACK
Gambia’s Foreign Secretary Oaou Darboe explaed to SMBC News, “Homosexualy was perhaps somethg Jammeh imaged orr to bamboozle the clerics that were surroundg him…He ed gay as a propaganda tool orr for him to ntue to reprs people. Adama Barrow, the current print of The Gambia, has stated that “homosexualy has never been an issue” his untry, but remas unclear as to whether he has plans to repeal the dranian anti-LGBTQ law passed by Jammeh.
Bee of this breadth, termg each untry's level of LGBTQI+ support requir the parison of many ditors, rangg om whether gay marriage is legal to whether LGBTQI+ dividuals are accepted by the general populatn or subjected to discrimatn and possible vigilante vlence.
LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr). Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more. Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people.