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Ugandan Gay Activist Beaten to Death in His Home

by Audacia Ray on January 27, 2011

in Africa,Human Rights and Sexuality

Since 2009, the issue of gay rights in Uganda has been in the spotlight, with the international human rights community standing in [...]

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Camerounian Gay Rights Group May Face Legal Consequences for Accepting a Grant

by Audacia Ray on January 11, 2011

in Human Rights and Sexuality

Over the last year, there has been a lot of attention paid to state-sanctioned homophobia in Africa, where there are many countries [...]

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Nigerian Human Rights Activists Organize the First Annual International Day Against Homophobia

by Lori Adelman on May 14, 2009

in Africa

Previously, we blogged about the discrimination and persecution faced by the LGBTQQI* community in Nigeria. First, there was Nigeria’s Same Gender Marriage [...]

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Same Gender Marriage Bill Update from Nigeria

by Audacia Ray on March 12, 2009

in Africa,Human Rights and Sexuality

Last week we published a post about the impending public hearing on Nigeria’s Same Gender Marriage bill by Dorothy Aken’Ova, a Nigerian [...]

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