Campaigners accuse Home Office of hypocrisy on LGBT rights
The Home Office unlawfully deported a Ugandan lesbian and won’t let her back in the UK.
The Home Office unlawfully deported a Ugandan lesbian and won’t let her back in the UK.
While some progress is being made on LGBT rights in the Commonwealth, it is painfully slow. More reform is needed urgently. Nearly 80 per cent of the 54 Commonwealth countries still criminalise homosexuality, with penalties ranging up to life imprisonment for consenting same-sex behaviour between adults in private.
The focus of the world has been on a viral video, ‘Kony 2012’, which exposes the actions of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army in central Africa.
Chris Tarquini presents the World outside Westminster
Marta Foresti, of the Overseas Development Institute, argues that making overseas aid conditional on government practice is counterproductive and harmful.
Paul Canning, the editor of LGBT Asylum News, writes on the defeat of the Ugandan anti-gay bill – and the prospect of it coming back.