{"id":3900,"date":"2019-03-01T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:29","slug":"kenya-and-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/03\/01\/kenya-and-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya and gay rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kenyalaw.org%2Flex%2Factview.xql%3Factid%3DCAP.%252063&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636870261120967419&amp;sdata=Or6%2FcOSDelJ1M3cJp3EHSQILC6i%2B%2Fp7LINY70A3H3jU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Kenyan Penal code currently\u00a0criminalises<\/a> same sex relations in sections 162 and 165.\u00a0 A penalty can be 14 years in prison. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theeastafrican.co.ke%2Fnews%2Fea%2FKenya-court-postpones-ruling-on-gay-sex%2F4552908-4993956-db67e6%2Findex.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636870261120977423&amp;sdata=mLOFejyb6LXA%2Fu6qiFbJ%2FYyMBawIXa7aerdCOjfuq0Q%3D&amp;reserved=0\">courts recently postponed a reconsideration of the code until May<\/a><br \/>\nThis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fexplainer-whats-at-stake-in-kenyan-court-case-on-gay-rights-112317&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636870261120977423&amp;sdata=a%2Bjtw9lppW7gJ7z3J8hPKyAQX%2BwTi5sGBF5YFdwUTTU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">interesting article from the Conversation\u00a0sets such laws in a wider colonial context<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For further information try these resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For background context see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F602447%2FKenya_-_SOGI_-_CPIN_-_v2__March_2017_.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636870261120987433&amp;sdata=RckrptFXzSDLc%2BQTEQy2G%2BkTJwYzlRx3xmNiexpiAW8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">UK Home Office background document\u00a0<\/a>(published in 2017)<\/li>\n<li>in 2013 the\u00a0<a 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institution\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kuchutimes.com%2F2019%2F01%2Fhistory-in-the-making-kenyas-lgbt-movement-seeks-to-have-criminalization-clauses-repealed%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0J-nINJBwTWYFlFUzmVqQZxX5kGJF5Kwe8Y5kDWof0c-h4g2muhnufKHA&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636870261121007447&amp;sdata=as0gojvdCHqBHWIf5MlHrJ%2B2bf9ueDkQNW9ZWSHqMjs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">working for legal and policy reforms.<\/a>\u00a0 Its website has information on its legal work including case decisions and campaigns<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.galck.org%2Fequal-rights-case%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636870261121007447&amp;sdata=8IqWFhUpdvYGNRbwgO5o%2FXxl%2F%2BtG0QyntJNL%2Fu8AAWA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Gay and Lesbian\u00a0<\/a>coalition<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.galck.org%2Fequal-rights-case%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C636870261121017456&amp;sdata=AHuGql6S5Ny7luT1lVvPWt8loPQve86AzAac5N3%2BxrQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u00a0of Kenya also has campaign materials on its website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>As does\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpemakenya.org%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636870261121017456&amp;sdata=yh2qzUpLygiD2ErZiPBCKHEYv4ZySXc15%2BN4pX65lT0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">PEMA Kenya<\/a>\u00a0 It is leading a social media campaign\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhashtag%2FRepeal162%3Fsrc%3Dhash&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636870261121027461&amp;sdata=5sJryuMPJoLxtcolTgBjB%2BHBv6N6ihC3BDTbuKUZe2k%3D&amp;reserved=0\">#Repeal162<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrw.org%2Freport%2F2015%2F09%2F28%2Fissue-violence%2Fattacks-lgbt-people-kenyas-coast&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636870261121027461&amp;sdata=tmeVJW0dBT1UCSpzfwzsQc%2BMJ7WD5m5A0EbhufdvR5w%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Human Rights Watch<\/a>\u00a0has reports of homophobic attacks in Kenya<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Filga.org%2Fmaps-sexual-orientation-laws&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636870261121037466&amp;sdata=edD%2FQniEXtjxexMwzBPA9jcXHl7iGaTXduzMqrGvE%2FI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">For information on other countries where it is currently illegal to be gay see the ILGA mapping<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan Penal code currently\u00a0criminalises same sex relations in sections 162 and 165.\u00a0 A penalty can be 14 years in prison. The\u00a0courts recently postponed a reconsideration of the code until May This\u00a0interesting article from the Conversation\u00a0sets such laws in a wider colonial context For further information try these resources: For background context see the\u00a0UK Home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,15],"tags":[17,54,174,58,189,66],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-africa","tag-gay-equality","tag-hate-crime","tag-human-rights","tag-kenya","tag-lgbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","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=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}