Gambia Anti Gay Bill is a Ser Human Rights Setback - BEAR Magaze

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• GAMBIA ANTI GAY BILL IS A SER HUMAN RIGHTS SETBACK

GAMBIA ANTI GAY BILL IS A SER HUMAN RIGHTS SETBACK

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. (Dakar) – Gambia’s recent passage of a homophobic law puts the already persecuted lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) muny at even greater risk of abe, Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch said today. “The vague and imprecise provisns of this law uld be ed to arrt and ta anyone who is believed to be gay or lbian, and ntribut to the already severe climate of hostily and fear for LGBTI people the untry.

26, 2014) On October 9, 2014, The Gambia’s Print, Yahya Jammeh, signed to law the Crimal Co (Amendment) Act, 2014, which clus a provisn that prcrib a harsh penalty for certa homosexual acts already crimalized unr the untry’s Crimal Co. For stance, on September 10, 2014, Human Rights Watch, notg that the legislatn vlat ternatnal human rights law and that would “further add to the climate of fear” for the members of the LGBTI muny the untry, lled on Jammeh to “reject [the] homophobic law. Those targeted clud journalists, polil opponents, and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, many of whom fled Gambia out of of the worst ab followed a failed up attempt on December 30, 2014.

Many victims were subjected to psychologil abe such as prolonged perds solary nfement, mock executn, and repeated threats of torture and Orientatn and Genr IntyGambians who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT), or who are perceived as such, have creasgly bee the target of hate speech om the print, as well as of discrimatory laws, arrt and prosecutn by the thori, and sometim vlent abe October 9, 2014, the ernment troduced a seri of new “aggravated homosexualy” offens that impose sentenc of up to life prison. The cls crimalize and discrimate agast LGBT people livg wh HIV and imply that persons wh disabili nnot nsent to after the new law passed, state secury round up dozens of people on spicn of homosexualy. They said they enuntered an atmosphere of fear and were nied accs to tentn centers, cludg the secury wg of Mile 2 Prison March 2015, Gambia rejected many remendatns om the UN Human Rights Council Geneva durg s last Universal Perdic Review, cludg abolishg the ath penalty, crimalizg homosexualy, and removg rtrictns on eedom of Febary and March 2015, the UN Workg Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearanc transmted seven s unr s urgent actn procre to the Gambian ernment on behalf of seven people abducted January 2015, allegedly by the December 2014, EU assistance to Gambia was ozen over ncerns about the untry’s dire human rights suatn.