On February 28, 2024, Ghana’s Parliament unanimously passed the ‘Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2021,’ widely known as the anti-LGBT Bill. Sponsored by a coalition of religious and traditional leaders, this regressive legislation poses a severe threat to the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ individuals in Ghana. Among the harshest in Africa, the…
An Algerian court had sentenced 44 men after the police raided an alleged ‘gay wedding’ in the country. While the court sentenced 2 of them to prison terms, the other 42 were sentenced to suspended terms. According to the report on Human Rights Watch, the Algerian police had raided a private residence and arrested 44…
Recent reports by the Human Rights Watch have revealed that security officials in Egypt are using dating apps to entrap LGBTQ+ persons. The research and advocacy NGO group accused security officers of Egypt’s National Security Agency of randomly picking up individuals off the streets based on suspicion of their sexuality or gender expression and detaining them…
The police officials in Uganda responsible for the unlawful arrests, detainment and torture of 20 LGBTQ+ persons in an LGBTQ+ shelter have now been charged. In July, over 50 days after the unlawful arrest in March, the 20 arrested persons, supported by the LGBTQ-friendly Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), filed a suit in…
An appeal court in Tunisia has upheld the conviction against two men arrested for gay sex but reduced their sentence to a one-year jail term. According to the report on Human Rights Watch, In June, police arrested the men, both 26, on suspicion of same-sex conduct in Le Kef, a city 175 kilometres southwest of…
On July 15, advocates and activists from all over Cameroon gathered together for the sixth annual Human Rights Defenders Day. The event is organised annually as a protest against violence and persistent abuses of human rights in Cameroon, and a commemoration of the assassination of Eric Ohena Lembembe, the executive director of the LGBT advocacy…
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