Twenty-four people have been arrested in Burundi as part of a security crackdown on “homosexual practices,” a judicial source and an activist told AFP on Friday. NAIROBI — The arrests took place on February 23 in the political capital Gitega, where members of MUCO Burundi, a non-profit organization that focuses Read more…
In this pioneering report, “Vulnerability Amplified: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBTIQ people”, OutRight Action International documents the effects of the pandemic on LGBTIQ people. While the COVID-19 pandemic leaves no country and no individual unaffected, drawing on almost 60 rapid research interviews conducted with LGBTIQ people in 38 Read more…
Neela Ghoshal: Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program “In short, we are dying,” Victor, a 25-year-old gay man in Tanzania, summed up his story when we spoke in mid-2018. He had just outlined the litany of measures Tanzania’s government had taken to deny lesbian, gay, bisexual and Read more…