Global Regnn of Human Rights for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr People - PMC

Contents:

• SIERRA LEONE GAY RIGHTS NEWSWIRE
• GLOBAL REGNN OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

SIERRA LEONE GAY RIGHTS NEWSWIRE

Homosexualy⚢✖ Male illegal, female legalCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ Illegal some ntextsEmployment DiscrimatnAmbiguoHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn TherapyAmbiguo. Homosexual activy Sierra Leone is male illegal, female illegal, female legal Male homosexualy is technilly punishable wh life imprisonment but is rarely marriage Sierra Leone?

Signifint human rights issu clud credible reports of: unlawful or arbrary killgs; cel, human, or gradg treatment or punishment by ernment or on behalf of ernment; harsh and life-threateng prison ndns; arbrary arrt or tentn; substantial terference wh the eedom of peaceful assembly; ser ernment rptn; lack of vtigatn of and acuntabily for genr-based vlence, cludg domtic or timate partner vlence, sexual vlence, child, early, and forced marriage, and female genal mutilatn/cuttg; crim volvg vlence or threats of vlence targetg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, or tersex persons; and laws crimalizg nsensual same-sex sexual nduct between adults, although the laws were not enforced.

GLOBAL REGNN OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

Vlence agast LGBTQI+ Persons: As 2021, there was no rmatn regardg any actn by ernment thori to vtigate or punish public enti or private persons plic ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) persons. Digny Associatn was ially found 2002 as the Sierra Leone Lbian and Gay Associatn (SLGA) unr the learship of the untry’s bt known LGBTQ rights activist, FannyAnn Eddy. Lears threatened to whhold aid om ernments that ban homosexualy, Sierra Leone rpond wh protts, and a lol Mlim group vowed to force the ernment to take tougher actn agast LGBTQ people.

Digny Associatn was ially found 2002 as the Sierra Leone Lbian and Gay Associatn (SLGA) unr the learship of the untry’s bt-known LGBTQ rights activist FannyAnn Eddy. Ls than a week after a gay man was nfirmed to a seat on California's Fourth District Court of Appeal, the lbian jtice who has been servg there sce 2016 announced she would retire Augt.

An Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced 2 men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg. Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual activy. Durg the 2021 June pre-electn perd, policians panred to homophobia to advance their mpaigns by targetg LGBT people as a threat to the fay, to natnal inty, and even natnal secury.

Also 2021, a civil urt issued a groundbreakg cisn, fdg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty when a sports club refed to provi servic to a gay man and two trans people. In January 2019, Artak (Adam) Arakelyan, 19, a queer activist, was subjected to abe and discrimatn at a ary draft board, where officers varly ed homophobic slurs to scribe him, mocked him. The Sarajevo Open Center (SOC), a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) and women’s rights group, rmed Human Rights Watch that observed an crease onle threats agast activists around the time of the planned march.