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Increasingly homophobic and authoritarian public policies in Tanzania have prompted a big pullback by international donors. Denmark will withhold $10 million in aid, and the World Bank has withdrawn a planned $300 million loan. Denmark is Tanzania’s second-biggest donor, providing over $52 million in foreign aid thus far in 2018. However, it cited human rights abuses […]
> Read MorePaul Makonda, a regional commissioner in the Tanzanian capital, has announced the creation of a 17-member committee and surveillance operation dedicated to tracking down homosexuals, which is set to start this week. Makonda went on to say that people should delete pornography from their phones and report homosexuals for arrest. “These homosexuals brag about it […]
> Read MoreAs previously reported in The Daylighter, “Rafiki,” a banned Kenyan film featuring a lesbian love story, was allowed to be shown for one week so that it could be submitted for Oscar consideration. However, it did not win the nomination. Nonetheless, the film was shown to sold-out crowds in the few theaters that screened it. […]
> Read MorePeru needs to do more to protect transgender women from human trafficking. Often rejected by their families and communities, Peruvian transgender women who migrate to cities can be drawn into a web of exploitation, including forced labor and sexual exploitation, that can lead to imprisonment and disappearance. At present, the Peruvian government has provided little […]
> Read MoreA Kenyan judge temporarily lifted a ban on the film “Rafiki,” making it eligible for Oscar consideration. The film, which follows a love story between two young women, had been banned by the Kenyan Film Classification Board for “promoting lesbianism.” The ban went back into effect after seven days. The film’s director, Wanuri Kahiu, had […]
> Read MoreLatin America has become an unlikely leader in LGBT rights. In 2010, five years before the United States, Argentina became the second country in the Western Hemisphere (after Canada) to legalize same-sex marriage — and other countries have followed suit. Latin America, despite the opposition of cultural forces such as the Roman Catholic Church, is rapidly […]
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