A Giza misdemeanour court sentenced 11 men to terms of up to 12 years in prison over charges of “inciting debauchery” after they were arrested for allegedly committing homosexual acts.
April 2016
Freedom Day quickly turned tragic for South Africa’s LGBT community, following the murder of a gay man who was stabbed and brutally assaulted with a pole. 27-year-old Tebogo Mokhoto was killed in a bloody attack on the East Rand, during which he was anally raped with a wooden object.
The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders yesterday announced the three finalists who will be receiving this year’s prestigious honor. The award, created in 1993, is granted annually to individuals who have demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous means and is in need of protection.
Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place, from expecting all males to engage in same-sex relationships, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death.
A U.S. government employee, who was also the editor of an LGBT magazine in Bangladesh, was hacked to death Monday in the capital of Dhaka, officials said. A group of assailants stormed the home of Xulhaz Mannan, a staffer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, stabbing him and a friend to death. Mannan was a senior editor of Roopbaan, the first gay rights magazine in the country.
Corro Allegro a Boston based LGBT Choir together with Spectrum Uganda and Refuge Point has organized a fundraiser dinner for Ugandan LGBTI refugees in Kenya. The dinner to be held on Saturday May 14th 2016 is set to begin at 7pm at Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St, Boston Massachusetts.
The Vice President of Shams Association, an LGBTI organization based in Tunisia has penned a statement calling for the international community and government to intervene in the smear campaign against the country’s sexual and gender minority population.
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) last week launched their latest publication titled ‘And That’s how I survived being Killed’ a booklet put together with the help of their partners ICE Breakers Uganda, Spectrum Uganda and Rainbow Health Foundation Mbarara.
South Africa’s health system has welcomed the much-anticipated launch of a publication that responds to the urgent need to address HIV among transgender people.
The document, entitled ‘Implementing comprehensive HIV and STI programmes with Transgender people’, represents an international collaboration between donor groups, policy makers and implementing organisations.
