Ukraine: Weak response to attack on LGBTI rights defender
Front Line Defenders reports today: Ukraine: Attack on LGBTI rights defender On 14 September 2015, human rights defender…
Cameroon: A productive life wrecked by homophobia
For five months, Maxime, 26, had lived in a room in the Mimboman neighborhood of Yaoundé, earning his…
Ivory Coast police chief fired for ignoring anti-gay attack
By Jean Marc Yao<span title=”Logo d’Alternative CI “> A police chief in Ivory Coast has been sacked because…
Uganda: Missing the point in 10-year sentence for sodomy
COMMENTARY Several media outlets missed a key fact in their coverage of the 10-year prison sentence imposed Sept.…
Why does Germany accept refugees, reject LGBTI activists?
COMMENTARY Why are German embassies denying visa requests from LGBTI activists seeking to take a brief trip to…
Ghana arrests reputed leader of violent anti-gay gang
Police in Ghana have arrested a man whom LGBTI activists labeled as an anti-LGBTI criminal using social media…
German allies clear hurdles, help 3 African LGBTI activists
After many months of frustration, the German activist group Helping a Minority in a Minority (HAMIAM) succeeded in…
Tortured in Gambia: LGBTI people, journalists, activists, clergy
In a new report, Human Rights Watch describes the horrors of life in the Gambia, a small West…
Four murders of gay men in Yemen
The gay community in the Yemeni port city Aden has reported four murders of gay men there since…
Church of England to blame for anti-gay Nigeria, Uganda?
The Rev. Richard Kirker protested today that an Erasing 76 Crimes blog post (“Anglicans’ LGBTI schism: Archbishop’s realism…