Please see erratum at https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr01/012/2013/en/ . Thirty-one countries in sub-Saharan Africa have laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual conduct. Underpinning these laws are deeply entrenched discriminatory social attitudes. This report examines the effects of the criminalization laws on, and discriminatory social attitudes towards, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. Amnesty International is urging governments to repeal laws criminalizing consensual same-sex conduct and to enact and enforce laws protecting LGBTI individuals from discrimination, harassment and violence, in accordance with their obligations under international law.
Africa: Making love a crime: Criminalization of same-sex conduct in Sub-Saharan Africa
Topics
- Africa
- Benin
- Cameroon
- Censorship and Freedom of Expression
- Death Penalty
- Detention
- Discrimination
- Human Rights Defenders and Activists
- International Justice
- Justice Systems
- Kenya
- Killings and Disappearances
- Lesotho
- LGBTI Rights
- Malawi
- Penal Institutions
- Racial Discrimination
- Religious Groups
- Report
- Research
- Right to Health
- Sexual Violence
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Torture and other ill-treatment
- Uganda
- Unfair Trials
- Unlawful Detention
- Unlawful Killings
- Women and Girls
- Women's Rights