LGBTQI Team Enters ’48 Hours Film Project’
Terraqua Productions , an all female and all LGBTQI team, entered the global film competition, the 48 Hour Film Project… Read more »
Africa
Reforms In Sudan Result In Removal Of Death Penalty And Flogging For Same-Sex Relations
Last week several legal reforms were passed by the Sovereign Council of Sudan… Read more »
Gabon Votes To Reverse Criminalization Of Same-Sex Relations
In a landmark decision, on Monday, 6 July 2020, the Senate of Gabon voted to decriminalize same-sex relations with 59 votes in favor, 17 against and 4 abstentions… Read more »
LGBTQ Rights Facing Uphill Struggle In Africa
Young Africans have mixed views on human rights, strongly supporting a wide variety of fundamental protections, but drawing the line at those for the LGBTQ community, results from a sweeping new Pan-African survey demonstrate. … Read more »
ORAM Announces COVID-19 Response For The LGBTQI Community
ORAM – Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration announces its COVID-19 campaign… Read more »
Women’s March Global Marched For Women’s Rights Across 24 Countries Worldwide
Fifty-one events took place across Africa, Central and South America, Europe, Canada and Asia on the theme of bodily autonomy… Read more »
Womens March For Our Human Rights
Women’s March Global’s 2020 title is “March For Our Human Rights” and is focused on bodily autonomy, the right to decide for one’s own body… Read more »
Zimbabwe High Court Awards Damages In Ground Breaking Judgment
The Bulawayo High Court in Zimbabwe delivered a scathing judgment against Zimbabwean police.
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Ugandan Authorities Amp Up Persecution of LGBTIQ People
LGBTIQ activists in Uganda confirm that on Sunday, November 10th, an LGBTIQ-friendly bar in Kampala was raided and 125 people arrested and charged with drug possession, indicating an intentional and growing persecution of LGBTIQ people in the country… Read more »
World Congress Of Families To Boost Export of LGBTIQ-phobia In West Africa
Formed in Russia in 1997 by American right-wing thinkers and Russian counterparts, the World Congress of Families is one of the major driving forces of the global promotion of an anti-choice and anti-LGBTIQ agenda… Read more »
Botswana Court Ruling Is A Ray Of Hope For LGBT People Across Africa
Botswana’s High Court has ruled that private consensual sex between adults of the same sex is no longer criminal. The decision gives hope to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in African countries that still have similar laws in place… Read more »
How Young Filmmakers Are Protecting Artistic Freedom In Kenya
Artistic freedom was always tenuous in Kenya, but it’s become even less so since Uhuru Kenyatta became president in 2013. The political pendulum has swung against political dissenters, intellectuals and a handful of media institutions that still believed in objective journalism… Read more »