Topic: South Africa
South Africa is failing to protect black lesbians and transgender men, who live in constant fear of "corrective rape", Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday."The threat of violence that dominates the lives of lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender ...
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday appointed an evangelical pastor, Mogoeng Mogoeng, as South Africa's top judge despite criticism of his stance on gays and crimes against women."It is my pleasure and honour to announce today the appointment of honourable chief justice Mogoeng ...
The murder of a South African lesbian activist who was stoned and stabbed to death is part of an "epidemic" of hate crimes against gays, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.Noxolo Nogwaza, a 24-year-old member of the Ekurhuleni Pride Organising Committee, a gay ...
South Africa has had a tumultuous human rights history, but even before reversing course with the elimination of apartheid, penning the world's first constitution to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and being among the first nations to legalize same-sex marriage, South ...
Did you know that being gay is illegal in 80 countries and punishable by death in Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen and some parts of Nigeria and Somalia? South Africa, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain and Canada, as well as ...
Some time ago, history was madewhen South Africa became the first country among committee of nationsto enact into their constitution the Gay Rights Act. It is nothing but a moral terrorworst than that seen in Islamic countries. It is abnormal for a ...
Thousands of people took part in Africa's biggest Gay Pride event in Johannesburg on Saturday, aimed at drawing attention to the persecution of homosexuals across the continent.Organisers said more than 18,000 people took part in the protest in the economic capital of ...
On the dusty field where Tshidiso Mofokeng's football team plays, she tries to forget how she was violently beaten the week before for being a lesbian in South Africa's townships."He called me faggot, lesbian, dirty monkey. I was bleeding on the floor ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Down the road from a constitutional court that is charged with upholding gay rights, South Africa's only lesbian soccer team fight not just for the ball but to overturn brutal prejudice and discrimination.The "Chosen Few" play with skill and ...
Uganda lawmaker says he will refuse government request to withdraw anti-gay death penalty billA Ugandan lawmaker on Friday refused to withdraw proposed legislation that would impose the death penalty for some gays and lesbians despite international condemnation and presidential opposition to a ...
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