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Category Archives: International pressure for LGBT rights
Cameroon: Drop charges against 2 transgender youths
A press release signed by Alternatives-Cameroun, ADEFHO, CAMFAIDS, Human Rights Watch, and ILGA: Cameroon: Drop Charges Against 2 Transgender Youth Prosecution Based Solely on Bias, Not Evidence (Yaoundé, May 17, 2013) – The Cameroonian authorities should drop the charges against … Continue reading
LGBT rights video: U.S. fundamentalist vs. African mom
‘Faceoff’ The newly launched video “Faceoff over homosexuality” presents performances depicting the contrasting attitudes of a white American fundamentalist preacher and an African mother whose son is gay. The video, produced by the activist media organization Global Dialogues with support from … Continue reading
Final arguments in Belize sodomy case
It’s Day 4 of the constitutional challenge against the Belize sodomy law, Section 53, brought by Caleb Orozco, leader of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (Unibam). Asa DeMatteo, a clinical psychologist living with his same-sex spouse in San Francisco, is … Continue reading
Uganda: As AIDS worsens, archbishop is an obstacle
The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle, who fought AIDS in Uganda in the 1990s and then saw it rebound in recent years, returned there recently to work on developing a gay-straight health-care alliance to continue the fight. He made progress, but … Continue reading
Amnesty Int’l demands freedom for Zambian gay couple
Amnesty International has called for the release of two young men in rural Zambia who have been jailed on charges of having sex “against the order of nature.” They are in jail pending the start of their trial scheduled for … Continue reading
Belize sodomy law on trial, Day 2
It’s Day 2 of the constitutional challenge against the Belize sodomy law, Section 53, brought by Caleb Orozco, leader of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (Unibam). Asa DeMatteo, a clinical psychologist living with his same-sex spouse in San Francisco, is … Continue reading
U.S.: Relatively few public LGBT abuses in central Africa
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in central Africa have a chance to live their lives relatively free of obvious public repression, at least compared to LGBT people in more publicly homophobic African nations, according to the accounts recently … Continue reading
Today: Court challenge to Belize anti-gay law
With help from people on the scene in Belize, the Erasing 76 Crimes blog will be following this week’s legal proceeding in the lawsuit seeking to throw out that nation’s anti-sodomy law as unconstitutional. Belize is the only country in … Continue reading
Cameroon ‘not ready’ to end LGBT persecution
Cameroon’s harsh treatment of LGBT people came in for criticism this week from 15 countries during the international human rights analysis known as the Universal Periodic Review. At the UPR session yesterday in Switzerland, Foreign Minister Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo did … Continue reading
After Ethiopia, perhaps other critiques of gay rights reports
The Council for Global Equality is seeking help from activists worldwide in pushing the United States to do a better job of supporting LGBT rights around the world. In particular, the council is inviting comments about newly released U.S. reports … Continue reading
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