Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers.
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
- MACH NHIANY: THE FIRST SOUTH SUDANE OPEN GAY
- 'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
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In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.
MACH NHIANY: THE FIRST SOUTH SUDANE OPEN GAY
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Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.
For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons".
“It [homosexualy] is not our character… is not there and if anybody wants to import to Sudan… will always be nmned by everybody. March 10, 2015 (SSB) — Hot Juba, which scrib self as the “first Junub all round gossips webse” has electrified South Sudane on social media wh a story of Mach Nhiany, dubbed the first South Sudan gay. Most Ains have always mata that homosexualy is a social phenomenal manufactured by the rich whe men livg a nce society.
'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
As Majur Deng Nhial of explaed his 2010 article “The visible gays muny South Sudan”, there have been known s of gay people among the Diaspora muny:. Dka, the largt tribe South Sudan held firmly by s tradnal norms and ctoms now has dividuals breakg rerds the 21st century regardg homosexual history. Ined most of the people who are outraged by the revelatn ce Ain culture and God, claimg that homosexualy is immoral bee the biblil God created man and a woman, not two men or two women.
“Even those who are not gays get killed daily south we do not fear…we are here hundreds all ten stat, if we are not public do not means we are not here…. Most of the South Sudane who rettled the Wt have always prid themselv that “we don’t have gays Ai and particularly Sudan. Yet, to thk that homosexualy should have evolutnary jtifitn is to pruppose that evolutn has preordaed purpose that is hardly the se.