An Indian court ruled gay sex was not a crime, a verdict that will bolster demands by gay and health groups that the government scrap a British colonial law, which bans homosexual sex.
Over the last decade The Inner Circle (TIC) has discovered that Muslims who are queer struggle to make peace with their sexuality and their faith. They often trade in the one at the expense of the other and find it difficult to accept both identities.
Activists working for the rights of LGBT people in many countries are still under-resourced, unnecessarily isolated, and vulnerable to violent backlash even after four decades of struggle, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
Au Burundi, des activistes engagés dans la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA et des groupes internationaux de défense des droits humains condamnent un nouveau code pénal criminalisant l’homosexualité dans ce pays d’Afrique centrale.
Benzine répond à Taïa. La lettre de Abdellah Taïa (TelQuel n°367) interpelle l’écrivain et chercheur Rachid Benzine (Les nouveaux penseurs de l’islam, Ed. Albin Michel, 2004). Qui lui répond…
Burundian AIDS activists and international human rights groups have condemned a new criminal code that criminalises homosexuality in the central African country.
