Angola has legalised same-sex marriage 133 years after the proscriptn of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) muny the untry.
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- UN WEL ANGOLA’S REPEAL OF ANTI-GAY LAW, AND BAN ON DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- ANGOLA HAS DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX
UN WEL ANGOLA’S REPEAL OF ANTI-GAY LAW, AND BAN ON DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN
LGBT Rights Angola: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * angola homosexual laws *
UN wel Angola’s repeal of anti-gay law, and ban on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.
Human RightsIn a move to embrace equaly, Angola has crimalized homosexualy and banned discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, a sweepg review of s lonial era penal , which had stood sce pennce om Portugal 1975. Also welg the cisn, a UN Inpennt Expert on protectn agast vlence and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty, said that such legislatn “was one of the root behd grave and pervasive human rights vlatns agast gay, lbian, trans and bisexual people”.
ANGOLA HAS DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX
In the past year, Angola and Botswana have shed their anti-gay laws. What n others learn om them? * angola homosexual laws *
In his statement, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, urged other Stat to follow Angola’s move, addg that “all other untri that still crimalize homosexualy, mt observe the procs of crimalizatn as motivatn to exame their own legal ameworks, and to brg themselv to full pliance wh this human rights imperative”. “In Angola lbians, gays, and bisexual and trans persons have nounced signifint barriers accs to health, employment, tn and other sential procs, all due to the perceptn that their very inti are crimal nature”, he nclud.
Commentg on the ban, the Human Rights Watch NGO, noted that Angola's only gay rights lobbyg anizatn, Iris Angola, was granted legal stat last year after four years of operatn. Mozambique, another former Portugue lony, crimalized homosexualy 2015, when too adopted a new penal .