state-sponsored homophobia and its consequences in Southern Africa
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Long, Scott
- Creator
- Brown, A. Widney
- Creator
- Cooper, Gail
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- homoseksualiteit, discriminatie, mensenrechten, overheidsbeleid, Afrika, rapport
- Description
- In this report, Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission document and analyze the impact of state-sponsored homophobia in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, and Botswana. .The report shows how these attacks attempt to create an atmosphere of intolerance in which governments can erode the basic principles of human rights, and individuals can abuse others with impunity. It contrasts these to the .different situation in South Africa, where the constitution has promised an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation - but where a lack of will as well as foresight has kept these promises short of fulfillment.