Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made progress in recognizing the human rights of LGBTI people, but much work remains to be done in the region’s 29 countries that still have laws against same-sex intimacy. LGBTI rights in those African countries are the focus of the following excerpts from the 2015 edition of the U.S. … Continue reading
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Trans woman attacked again in Cameroon
The advocacy group Camfaids (the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS) today reported a new attack against a trans woman in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Over the past few years, she has been repeatedly beaten, arrested, jailed and released. (See related stories below.) This is a translation of today’s Camfaids report: A trans woman was attacked in Yaoundé, Cameroon, … Continue reading
Life is tough for trans and intersex Cameroonians
By Erin Royal Brokovitch Transgender people are becoming more visible in Cameroon, despite the legal repression of homosexuality and the fact that LGBTI people in Cameroon are often convicted in unfair trials because they look different. NAOMI AND DELORES For years, Naomi and Dolores have been well-known names in the city of Yaoundé, gaining a … Continue reading
Cameroon arrestees freed, but possible probe looms
By Erin Royal Brokovitch At exactly 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, an assistant of attorney Michel Togué sent him a text message informing him of the provisional release of two allegedly gay detainees and two trans women, Jonas and Franky. Those four arrestees breathed a huge sigh of relief, as did the defense team and … Continue reading
Cameroon sex worker jailed for not being a girl
On Saturday, a police officer in Cameroon seeking sex with a sex worker was so shocked to find that his intended partner was transgender instead of biologically female that he beat him severely, arrested him, and charged him with homosexuality. Defenders of the human rights of LGBT sex workers in Limbe in coastal Cameroon said … Continue reading
More mob violence in Cameroon; anti-gay attacks continue
Activists in Cameroon have reported two new mob attacks against LGBT people in the country’s capital of Yaoundé. The violence occurred a few days before a Day Against Homosexuality demonstration, proposed for Aug. 21, and a month after the murder of gay activist Eric Lembembe. The attacks were the latest in a series of anti-gay … Continue reading
Cameroon: Stop turning blind eye to death threats
Human Rights Watch issued this press release yesterday. Also see “Cameroon: Stop death threats to lawyers (video).“ Cameroon: Stop Turning Blind Eye to Death Threats: Intimidation of Lawyers in ‘Homosexuality’ Cases Compromises Right to Defense (Nairobi, February 13, 2013) – The government of Cameroon should immediately take action against a series of death threats made over … Continue reading
Jonas and Franky, freed but now in hiding
The good news: Two young men in Cameroon won a court appeal this month and were freed from prison, where they had been serving a five-year sentence for alleged violations of Cameroon’s anti-homosexuality law. The bad news: They had to go into hiding, because immediately after they were released from prison, they were pursued by … Continue reading
Au Cameroun, une femme trans attaquée de nouveau
Publié le 20 janvier 2015 L’association militante CAMFAIDS rapporte une nouvelle attaque contre une femme trans à Yaoundé: Lynchage d’une homosexuelle à Yaoundé, Cameroun, au lieu dit « carrefour Avenue-Germaine » le lundi 19 janvier 2015 aux environs de 4 heures du matin par un groupe de 15 personnes armées de pierres et de gourdins. … Continue reading
La vie difficile pour transgenres et intersexuées au Cameroun
Publié le 17 décembre 2014 Par Erin Royal Brokovitch Les personnes transgenres sont de plus en plus visibles au Cameroun, malgré la répression légale de l’homosexualité et des victimes de procès arbitraires très souvent fondés sur l’apparence des personnes au genre different. NAOMI ET DOLORÈS Naomi, Dolorès, voilà des noms que les habitants de la … Continue reading
