LGBT Rights Ethpia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
- TOP GAY DTATNS: ETHPIA
- ETHPIAN MISTER’S PRO-GAY TWEET AND THE GRIM DAYS AHEAD
ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
Ethpian church groups are angry a US-based gay tourist operator plans to vis relig s. * twitter gay ethiopia *
I want say much about sexual orientatn and addn to this much more about the circumstanc of gay people terms of the law of the untry of Ethpia as well as culture and relign.
TOP GAY DTATNS: ETHPIA
So I want emphasise to Ethpian gays and lbians that ternatnal human rights missns mt force this ernment to rpect and accept each and every persons agendas Ethpia. I know plenty gays people and outsi of Addis, pecially around Piazza, Arat Kilo, Ambassador Theatre hoe, provce Bahar Dar, Awasa, Nazareth, Dera Dawa, there are many plac that you fd gay people. “Y, when I me to South Ai I was thkg that homosexualy is as a disease or abnormaly, but now I unrstand that is natural, so each and every person mt unrstand as this is a part of nature.
Laws verg homosexual activy: Sectns 600 and 601 prohib homosexual acts between men and between women, wh a penalty of 10 days to 3 years’ “simple imprisonment”. The maximum sentence n also be applied when the victim is subjected to acts of celty or sadism; when the offenr transms a venereal disease although fully aware of beg fected wh ; when an adult is charged wh mtg homosexual acts wh persons unr 15 years of age; or when distrs, shame or spair driv the victim to mtg suici. Berhane Mkel Abebe, the Ethpian reprentative on the UN Commtee on Non-Governmental Oganisatns, said his untry voted agast ILGA january bee homosexualy is a crime punishable by imprisonment Ethpia.
Acrdg to the 2007 Pew Global Attus Project, 97 percent of Ethpia rints believe that homosexualy is a way of life that is unacceptable society. Ethpian uncil of misters adopted a change to the untry’s “Pardon and Amnty law, ” which ma sure that homosexualy, along wh terrorism and a few other ser crim, will bee a crimal asslt that n no longer be the past, there was a history of pardong nvicted homosexuals who monstrated a “scere repentance” for their crim, addn to….
ETHPIAN MISTER’S PRO-GAY TWEET AND THE GRIM DAYS AHEAD
A ld tile floor and threadbare ts have never seemed so the gigglg, affectnate men acted this way – unabashedly, stereotypilly gay – on the streets of Ethpia's pal, they uld be expelled, beaten up, fired, disowned, or jailed. Unlike Mrania, Sudan, and Northern Nigeria, Ethpia don't mandate the ath penalty for same-sex sexual acts, but thanks to dranian laws that forbid activism while allowg Wtern evangelils to promote homophobia, Ethpia is on track to jo their many untri, 's gettg better for the LGBT muny.
Given that a volunteer who, say, dar to hand out lubrint to gay men uld face imprisonment and jeopardize his or her groups' larger-sle work, anizatns have cid 's not worth the risk. Gays are persecuted Uganda, but that untry's health mistry recently admted that specialized clics for LGBT people have helped bat HIV rat; Dr.
Ketebirhan Admasu, the Ethpian Mister of Health, would only tell Newsweek that homosexualy is unlikely to be crimalized " the near future, " although any person "n accs any type of servic regardls of their sexual orientatn. State Department "livers this msage" is by pyg and pastg the same two paragraphs year after year s Ethpian Human Rights Report, which briefly not "some reports of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals" while acknowledgg that "reportg was limed due to fear of retributn, discrimatn, or stigmatizatn.