LGBT advocates' lives are in jeopardy in northern Ghana
Homophobic violence has broken out in northern and northwestern Ghana, especially targeting human rights defenders, the LGBTQI+ advocacy group Rightify Ghana| Erasing 76 Crimes
Homophobic violence has broken out in northern and northwestern Ghana, especially targeting human rights defenders, the LGBTQI+ advocacy group Rightify Ghana| Erasing 76 Crimes
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Impact of U.S. funding freeze on Uganda’s AIDS response| Erasing 76 Crimes
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Police tracked them down by using a detainee’s telephone without a warrant Police in Yaoundé, Cameroon, have charged five men with homosexual activity on the basis of texts and social media links they discovered on one man’s telephone, which they seized and searched without a warrant. All five are currently in Yaoundé-Kondengui Central Prison awaiting… The post Cameroon police arrest and imprison 5 men for suspected homosexuality appeared first on Erasing 76 Crimes.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Commentary from Barbados: Freedom of speech is no excuse for violent anti-transgender threats In the wake of the arrest of anti-transgender Irish comedian Graham Linehan for urging women to kick trans women in the genitals, trans activist Alexa D V. Hoffman writes that anti-trans commentators are falsely defending hate speech as it were protected free… The post Transgender victims of hate speech deserve protection, not more hate appeared first on Erasing 76 Crimes.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Georgian Dream promotes conspiracy theories about LGBT people to demonize the European Union The European Union is threatening to bar citizens of the nation of Georgia from traveling to the EU without visas over the government’s failure to protect LGBTIQ people’s rights and its enactment of anti-democratic legislation. On Oct. 7, the European Parliament approved… The post Pro-Russia government in nation of Georgia peddles LGBT conspiracy theories appeared first on Erasing 76 Crimes.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Ugandan LGBTIQ rights group says its caseload nearly doubled last month A new report by the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) has revealed a significant increase in the number of cases in Uganda in which individuals were targeted for violence and other violations purely on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity,… The post Anti-LGBTIQ violence in Uganda continues to worsen, report says appeared first on Erasing 76 Crimes.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Violence against queer people has become acute in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions By Jean Jacques Dissoke As Cameroon approaches the Oct 12 presidential election, the English-speaking regions of the Northwest and Southwest are once again plunged into uncertainty that has exposed LGBTQ residents to greater violence and danger. So-called “ghost town” days, imposed by separatist groups,… The post As Cameroon election approaches, LGBTQ+ people face increasing violence appeared first...| Erasing 76 Crimes
Bringing back ‘Syria’s first, fiercest, and only queer magazine’ is fund drive’s goal. Queer Syrians have survived war, persecution, and exile. Yet their voices remain almost entirely absent from recovery efforts and public dialogue, say supporters of LGBTQ rights in Syria. They recall, “In 2012 we created Mawaleh, Syria’s first queer cultural magazine, to fight… The post Supporters of LGBTQ Syrians aim to revive Mawaleh, ‘a defiant glitterbomb of resistance’ appeared first ...| Erasing 76 Crimes
Alliance with Russia deepens as the West African nation criminalizes homosexuality. Burkina Faso’s criminalization of same-sex relations is part of s pivot by junta leader Ibrahim Traore away from the West and toward Russia. Agence France-Presse explains, starting with the story of a young, gay Burkinabe man (the name for the people of Burkino Faso): Quentin,… The post Burkina Faso’s LGBTQ community fears ‘witch hunt’ appeared first on Erasing 76 Crimes.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Ugandan homophobe Martin Ssempa echoes allegations of right-wing Americans. Pastor Martin Ssempa, Uganda’s most prominent homophobic cleric, has been using the murder of American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk to promote Ssempa’s homophobia agenda and to seek buyers for Ssempa’s recently published anti-LGBTQ book. In a series of social media posts, Ssempa blames members of… The post Ugandan anti-LGBTQ pastor uses Charlie Kirk murder to sell books appeared first on Erasing ...| Erasing 76 Crimes
LGBT Voice Tanzania calls on the state to protect all queer people A report from the LGBTQ+ advocacy group LGBT Voice Tanzania describes the destruction that systemic homophobia is wreaking on LGBTQ+ people in the East African state. Below is a summary of the report’s findings and calls to action. Lived Realities of LGBTQ+ Tanzanians:… The post Report shows impact of anti-LGBT laws on queer Tanzanians appeared first on Erasing 76 Crimes.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Winnie Byanyima tells Ugandan 'weak trolls and bots': 'Stay out of our family affairs.'| Erasing 76 Crimes
A trans-Atlantic evangelical alliance is popularizing the dangerous and debunked practice of conversion therapy across African nations.| Erasing 76 Crimes
In Senegal, anti-gay hate speech spreads on Facebook without restraint in abusive posts that are written in Wolof, LGBTQ+ advocates say. That's the local| Erasing 76 Crimes
Facebook has squelched some anti-LGBTIQ+ hate speech in the Middle East, but needs to do more, activists say.| Erasing 76 Crimes
LGBTQ+ activists in Middle East and North Africa urge Facebook to squelch hate speech.| Erasing 76 Crimes
The hunt for homosexuals continues in Tunisia, this week in Tataouine in the southern part of the country.| Erasing 76 Crimes
LGBT activists and allies from India and Bangladesh are seeking support for a petition to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action against| Erasing 76 Crimes
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On Sept. 9, 2025, at around 3 p.m., an act of alleged same-sex rape was reported in the Nsimalen neighborhood of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. According| Erasing 76 Crimes
For François* (pseudonym), a human rights observer in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the year 2025 begins under the worst auspices, between the announcement of the suspension of American international aid for 3 months, since January 20, and the resumption of fighting in South Kivu, culminating in the capture of Bukavu by the M23 rebels last Saturday, February 15, thanks to the support of the Rwandan army. While some in the vox populi accuse the West of supporting the rebels, o...| Erasing 76 Crimes
Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa calls the new Burkina Faso law inhumane and a 'dangerous distraction'| Erasing 76 Crimes
A day after parliament gave its final approval to the anti-LGBTQ+ bill, transgender actor and model Kesaria Avramidze was stabbed to death in her apartment in| Erasing 76 Crimes
Ukraine's government has introduced a bill that would strengthen penalties for discrimination, hate crimes, and hate speech, including protections for sexual| Erasing 76 Crimes
'My human rights work will continue at a different address'| Erasing 76 Crimes
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just made his social media network even more unsafe for LGBTQ people.| Erasing 76 Crimes
After the cancellation of its cultural programme during Pride Month, Kap Caraïbe was faced with the deterioration of a photo exhibition launched with its support in October in Martinique in a context of acute social crisis on the island.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Homophobes in Uganda seem to have opened up a new front online for spreading their hate and issuing threats against the LGBTQI+ community, according to a| Erasing 76 Crimes
Frightened by a few rebukes from cranky, homophobic neighbours, the municipality of Fort-de-France in Martinique went to great lengths to block the anti-racist, anti-LGBTphobia cultural programme put on by local association Kap Caraïbe as part of Pride Month.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Foreign aid freeze puts millions at risk of starvation and HIV.| Erasing 76 Crimes
It's a gross violation of human rights, say advocates of LGBTQ rights in Bangladesh.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Two employees at an LGBT bar in central Russia have been arrested for organizing and hosting drag shows.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Executive orders reject trans people, refugees, foreign aid and the World Health Organization.| Erasing 76 Crimes
