Namibia: Parliament Backs Anti-Gay Bill Dpe Supreme Court Rulg

Contents:

• UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?
• ON GAY RIGHTS, YOUNG AINS SHARE THE TOLERANCE OF THEIR ELRS
• MOSW GAY MAP

UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?

Pri month is a time to reflect on progrs but also ongog challeng  advancg the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Last July, five men acced of homosexual nduct were arrted Kano State, Nigeria by a relig police un that enforc Sharia, or Islamic law. And Augt, lawmakers proposed a bill (still unr review) so extreme that simply sayg you are gay or lbian uld land you mandatory nversn therapy or prison for up to 10 years.

Same-sex nduct is not illegal  Rwanda, but thori there round up and arbrarily taed people regard as socially unsirable, cludg over a dozen gay and transgenr people, sex workers, street children, and others the months before a planned June 2021 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetg. Ngobe’s tweet received natnwi attentn not only bee revealed a ernment official’s unapologetic homophobia, but also bee was emblematic of the wispread and stubborn ristance to the tablishment of LGBTQ rights South Ai.

ON GAY RIGHTS, YOUNG AINS SHARE THE TOLERANCE OF THEIR ELRS

South Ai’s nstutn prohibs unfair discrimatn on the grounds of sexual orientatn and guarante equaly for gay and lbian people. It is time for South Ai to rpond cisively to this growg problem by adoptg preventive measur agast homophobic hate speech and hate crim. In Uganda, where LGBTQ people face wispread persecutn, Print Yoweri Meveni claimed that the protts agast his 35-year le were fund by “foreign homosexuals” January.

In Ghana, church groups, policians and anti-gay rights anisatns held monstratns agast the openg of Ghana’s first LGBTQ muny centre Febary. The Ghana Mlim Missn, for example, attributed the COVID-19 panmic to “homosexualy, lbianism, transgenrism” a munique issued March 2020. The endls stigmatisatn of homosexuals and the prentatn of unfound lks between LGBTQ muni and public health or socenomic cris are plorable and humane.

In South Ai, for stance, the monthly earngs of genr nonnformg, gay or bisexual men are, on average, 30 percent lower than that of genr nformg heterosexual men. There are untri – such as Nigeria, Mrania, Sudan, and Somalia – that impose bans, lengthy jail terms, ostracism, or a ath penalty on anyone displayg same-sex affectn and lbian, gay or transgenr inty or existence. This impos the ath penalty, life imprisonment or between 10 and 20 years prison for “attempted homosexualy” and “promotn of homosexualy”.

MOSW GAY MAP

It’s possible that whatever gas have been ma elsewhere will be threatened by the actns of parliamentarians and homophobic cizens Uganda.

It has been noted that US Christian fundamentalists have been behd anti-homosexualy bills wt Ain untri, unr the guise of protectg the fay. Human Rights Watch said tolerance and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people has remaed rife among Ghana’s populatn. A spokwoman for Ghana Police Service (GPS), told CNN on Saturday that the openg of the center was at variance wh the untry’s gay laws and prevalent opns on homosexual activi Ghana.

The Ghanaian ernment, however, sists that the untry’s laws are supreme, and legislatn crimalizg gay sexual activi would rema place.