'Great first step' as Sudan lifts ath penalty and floggg for gay sex | Rters

Contents:

• AI THE NEWS: HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW PASS UGANDA, SOUTH SUDAN ENTERS PEACE TALKS, AND AI 2014
• POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS
• 'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX

AI THE NEWS: HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW PASS UGANDA, SOUTH SUDAN ENTERS PEACE TALKS, AND AI 2014

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Censorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. HistoryHomosexual activy South Sudan?

Homosexual activy South Sudan is illegal (imprisonment as punishment). Current statSce Jul 8, 2011Not legal As homosexualy is a punishable offense, same sex marriage is also not legalCensorship of LGBT Issu South Sudan? Current statSce Jul 9, 2011No protectns No protectn is granted as homosexualy is illegalLGBT employment discrimatn South Sudan?

Current statSce Jul 9, 2011Illegal No protectn granted as homosexualy is illegalBlood donatns by MSMs South Sudan? N/A Homosexualy is currently illegal. Signifint human rights issu clud ernment-perpetrated extrajudicial killgs, cludg ethnilly based, targeted killgs of civilians; forced disappearanc; torture and s of cel, human, and gradg treatment or punishment; harsh and life-threateng prison ndns; arbrary tentn; polil prisoners or tae; polilly motivated reprisal agast dividuals loted outsi the untry; ser problems wh the pennce of the judiciary; arbrary or unlawful terference wh privacy; ser ab an ternal nflict, cludg unlawful killg of civilians, enforced disappearanc or abductns, torture and physil ab or punishment, unlawful recment or e of child soldiers, mass forced displacement, wispread sexual and genr-based vlence, and e of food as a weapon of war; ser rtrictns on ee exprsn, the prs, and the ter, cludg vlence agast and timidatn and tentn of journalists; closure of media ho, censorship, and se blockg; substantial terference wh the rights of peaceful assembly and eedom of associatn, such as overly rtrictive nonernmental anizatn laws; signifint rtrictns on eedom of movement; abily of cizens to change their ernment peacefully through ee and fair electns; rtrictns on polil participatn; ser acts of rptn; lack of vtigatn and acuntabily for vlence agast women; traffickg persons; crim volvg vlence targetg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or tersex persons; the e of laws crimalizg nsensual same-sex sexual nduct between adults; and existence of the worst forms of child labor.

POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS

Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) persons reported secury forc routely harassed and sometim arrted, taed, tortured, and beat them. Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (up to life prison as punishment)Censorship✖ State-enforcedNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Public OpnRearch atttus towards LGBTQ+ issu Sudan have intified a strong opposn to LGBTQ+ rights, reflectg unrlyg homophobic sentiments, based on the limed rmatn available Sudan.

HistoryHomosexual activy Sudan? Homosexual activy Sudan is illegal (up to life prison as punishment).

'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX

Illegal (ath penalty as punishment)Homosexualy unr the third nvictn n rult the ath penalty. Current statSce Feb 1, 1991Not legal Homosexualy is not legal Sudan. Homosexualy was crimalised unr Islamic sharia lawRight to change legal genr Sudan?

Current statSce Jan 1, 1956No protectns Homosexualy is illegal hog discrimatn Sudan? Current statSce Jan 1, 1956No protectns Homosexualy is illegal adoptn Sudan? Illegal Mandatory ary service do not equate tolerance for open homosexualy, nor do acunt for a system of 'filterg' LGBT donatns by MSMs Sudan?

N/A Homosexualy is illegal Sudan.

Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. HistoryHomosexual activy Uny?

Homosexual activy Uny is is own untry.

Yet, this amework, is not surprisg to ascerta the treatment often rerved to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) persons. Homophobic discrimatn seems to be worryg above all the Epispal Church. He also add that homosexualy do not exist South Sudan and if anybody wants to import/export to South Sudan, this actn “will always be nmned by everybody”.

Nuer and Zan are two of the ethnic groups prent South Sudan (Thabo Msibi, ‘The Li We Have Been Told: On (Homo) Sexualy Ai’, Ai Today, 2011 at 65-66 and 89). In 2012, Sudan’s first onle gay magaze named “Rabow Sudan” beme available. Along the same l of the Penal Co, the 2011 Passports and Immigratn Act, Sectn 15(5) (“Refal or Cancellatn of Visa”) stat that a visa shall not be granted to an alien who “is reasonably spected to be enterg South Sudan for the purpos of prostutn, homosexualy, lbianism or human traffickg”.

In this unfavourable scenar for LGBTI muni, South Sudan is also assisted by the fact that the three sub-regnal anizatns is a part of have been until now pletely silent on the subject of the homo/trans/tersexualy. The cisns revive the bate around homosexualy Ai bee, by referrg to Ain valu and tradns, the AU Executive Council seems to put emphasis on the ia that homosexualy is an import om the “Wt” that go agast Ain tradns, although we have seen that this ia is historilly not te. Punishments for Homosexualy Uganda Now Inclu Death.

Last week, the legislature Uganda passed a law agast homosexual acts, which will now rry punishments that clu life sentenc prison.