Maybe you have heard that Africa as a whole is not the greatest place to live if you are a homosexual? Some might say it’s worse than the Middle East! But what region really wants to claim the top honor of discriminating against, harassing, and torturing the most gay people? (Uganda, don’t answer that.) As just one example, things are so bad in Tanzania that a trio of NGOs have filed a report with the United Nations laying out the civil rights abuses.
Reaching out to the UN’s Human Rights Committee, the Centre for Human Rights Promotion in East Africa, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the Global Rights organizations are hoping to mount pressure on Tanzania to decriminalize same-sex sex, where intercourse between two men is punishable by life in prison, provide anti-discrimination protections, and review its HIV/AIDS policy, which is one giant cesspool of inefficiencies. (It doesn’t help that, during a visit here, President George W. Bush pushed his version of HIV prevention, which was abstinence-only education.)
Which is all well and good, but thus far it’s falling on deaf ears: “However reached for comment, a spokesperson in the office of the Attorney General, Mr Omega Ngole, who admitted seeing the report, said the country’s laws were meant to protect the right of all and safeguard their integrity.”
prissysissy
You do not need to be a homosexual to consider most of Africa not the greatest place to live in. Even South Africa is going downhill with the uncontrolled crime and unemployment.
However, Africa is still slightly better than most of the Middle East.
Mr. Cox
Yes! Or else the UN will be very very angry with them and then they will tell them how angry they are.
Mr. Cox
@prissysissy: You’re right. In Africa they don’t chop your head off or stone you, they just let you starve to death 😉
TANK
No. The UN is an impotent agency staffed and run by cowardly people.
D-Sun
Ooh, I hope they write Tanzania a very angry letter. With red font.