Human Rights Watch: Anti-gay laws promote vlence, discrimatn St. Vcent

Contents:

• GAY BOLIVIA TRAVEL GUI
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• GAY SEX IS STILL ILLEGAL THIS CARIBBEAN ISLAND; HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WANTS BAN REPEALED
• THE BEST BOLIVIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BOLIVIA
• BOLIVIA GAY GUI AND HOTELS

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Gay Marriage⚭✖ Civil unnsCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

Same-sex relatns are punishable unr article 338 of the penal by up to two years Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced two men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg. In Febary 2021, a new penal me to effect Angola that no longer crimaliz nsensual same-sex nduct, scrappg lonial-era provisns that characterized homosexualy as “vic agast nature.

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. In Augt 2020, the Court of Appeal led there had not been a proper vtigatn to a vlent homophobic attack 2018 agast a group of LGBT activists, which left at least six activists jured.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

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, and threatened to out him to his father. Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay.

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 march. In 2020, Print Bolsonaro acced the World Health Organizatn of centivizg homosexualy through s sexualy tn guil, while the Mister of Edutn nounced sexualy tn and attributed homosexualy young people to “maladjted fai. ”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu.

In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J. Between January and June 2020, the natnal Human Rights Ombudspersons Office received 1, 134 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons. Article 29 of the Constutn of Bundi explicly bans same-sex Augt, Print Evariste Ndayishimye ma a televised speech which he scribed homosexualy as a “curse” and claimed that gay people were rponsible for Covid-19.

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Acrdg to Cameroonian LGBT rights anizatns, at least six LGBT people were prison as of Febary 2021 on homosexualy charg, cludg transgenr women who were arrted on the basis of genr exprsn.

While Cha crimalized homosexual nduct 1997, lacks laws protectg people om discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty, and same-sex partnership is not legal. Dpe Colombia’s strong legal protectns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, the human rights ombudsperson has raised ncerns about high levels of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rponse to the Covid-19 panmic, on April 8, 2020 the ernment of Bogotá tablished a genr-based quarante.

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”For several months, Egyptians livg wh HIV, cludg gay men, faced obstacl to accsg HIV treatment as they feared retrievg their meditn om fever hospals, the only centers where people livg wh HIV n accs lifavg meditns, after the ernment signated them as treatment centers for Covid-19.

Between October 2019 and April 2020 alone, at least seven trans women and two gay men were murred El Salvador, wh tails the s suggtg the killers had been motivated by hatred based on the victims’ genr inty or sexual orientatn. In spe of this law, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists succsfully held the first ever Eswati Pri event June 2018, wh hundreds marchg the streets of Mbabane support of LGBT equaly.

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In spe of this law, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists succsfully held the first ever “Eswati Pri” event June 2018, wh hundreds marchg the streets of Mbabane support of LGBT October 20, 2020, the Eswati High Court heard a challenge om Eswati Sexual and Genr Mori (ESGM) agast the Eswati Registrar of Compani’ refal to register ESGM as a pany. ESGM is a human rights muny-based advocy anizatn workg to advance the protectn of the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex persons the kgdom of Eswati. In October 2014, then-Print Yahya Jammeh signed to law an amendment to the Crimal Co which troduced a new offence of “aggravated homosexualy” punishable by life imprisonment.

The amendment f “aggravated homosexualy” to clu serial offenrs or persons wh a prev nvictn for homosexualy, persons who admister dgs or substanc orr to have “unlawful rnal nnectn” wh a person of the same sex, persons havg same-sex relatns wh someone unr the age of 18 or wh a person who has a disabily, or a person wh HIV havg same sex sexual relatns. The spate of killgs was, sadly, not out of the ordary: 2020, human rights ombudsperson Jordán Rodas said, at least 19 people known to be lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) were murred Guatemala. The spate of killgs was, sadly, not out of the ordary: 2020, human rights ombudsperson Jordán Rodas said at least 19 people known to be lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) were murred Guatemala.

One adds homosexualy as a reason for nyg a Certifit Bonne Vie et Mœurs, a certifite of good standg required by many employers and universi as proof that a person has not mted a felony. It also bans any public support or advocy for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr November 2019, Charlot Jdy, a gay man who found Hai’s LGBTQ advocy group Kouraj, was found ad at his home. Authori creasgly e Indonia’s anti-pornography law as a pretext for police raids and prosecutns of LGBT May 2019, a former police brigadier filed a lawsu agast the central Java provcial police, claimg he had been fired for beg gay.

Article 401 holds that any person who ms an “immost act” public n be imprisoned for up to six months, a vague provisn that uld be ed to target sexual and genr mori, although such s have not been the years, thori have not held acuntable perpetrators, cludg secury forc, of kidnappgs, torture, and killgs of people perceived as gay and transgenr.

In Augt 2019, an Israeli judge led that billboard pani nnot reject homophobic polil advertisements after two pani nied space on the outsi wall of a Jesalem hotel to a far-right party, Noam. In Augt 2019, an Israeli judge led that billboard pani nnot reject homophobic polil advertisements after two pani nied space on the outsi wall of a Jesalem hotel to a far-right party, Noam.

Marriage Israel is currently rtricted to different-sex upl, although marriag nducted abroad n be June 6, 2019, Israel named s first openly gay mister, Amir Ohana, to serve as actg jtice mister.

In July 2019, Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court led that two women will receive pensatn om a Facebook er who posted a vio of them kissg on the social media platform whout their permissn, and soliced homophobic ments. The clu a 2015 High Court lg favor of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn a se volvg eedom of assembly and associatn, which has been appealed by the ernment and currently awas rolutn at the Supreme Court; a 2018 Appeals Court lg prohibg forced anal examatns; and lgs affirmg transgenr and tersex people’s rights. Print Uhu Kenyatta referred to homosexualy as “not acceptable” a 2018 media terview, but has prevly said he would not tolerate anti-LGBT “wch hunts” and other forms of vlence.

In November 2012, the Mistry of Jtice and Constutnal Affairs imposed a moratorium on anti-gay laws and temporarily banned the police om arrtg people who practice homosexualy.

There were no publicly known s of persons sentenced to ath 2020 or recent years for homosexual Court of Appeal Nouakchott on March 4, 2020, nfirmed the nvictn of eight men for “mtg cent acts” and “cg bchery, ” but rced their sentenc to six months prison.