{"id":1555,"date":"2014-03-21T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","slug":"criminal-laws-on-homosexuality-in-african-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/03\/21\/criminal-laws-on-homosexuality-in-african-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/help\/criminal-laws-on-homosexuality\/african-nations-laws.php\"><strong>Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nUseful \u00a0chart produced in February 2014 by the Law Library of the Library of Congress which summarizes the treatment of homosexuality in the criminal laws of forty-nine African nations.<br \/>\nFor further research on this topic try:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilga.org\/\">ILGA<br \/>\n<\/a>The website of the International Lesbian, Gay, \u00a0Bisexual, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Trans and Intersex Association has interactive maps which display \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the persecution of LGBT individuals in different nations. There are also \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 news stories and case studies of activism and homophobia worldwide.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iglhrc.org\/content\/our-publications\">The \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)<\/a><br \/>\nis a leading international organization dedicated to human rights \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 advocacy. Its website provides free access to news and publications. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iglhrc.org\/node\/8579\">resources section<\/a> links to key \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 legal documents and activisit organisations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icj.org\/themes\/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity\/\">International \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Commission of Jurists<\/a>\u00a0website<br \/>\nAlso has a very good legal section with news, cases and documents \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on\u00a0Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Justice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations Useful \u00a0chart produced in February 2014 by the Law Library of the Library of Congress which summarizes the treatment of homosexuality in the criminal laws of forty-nine African nations. For further research on this topic try: ILGA The website of the International Lesbian, Gay, \u00a0Bisexual, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Trans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,15],"tags":[17,54,58],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-africa","tag-gay-equality","tag-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}