Articles tagged with: Human rights
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Controversial Dan Savage on the rights of sex workers: “However, to make it worse and more dangerous [for the people who end up in prostitution] because you are claimning to feel bad for prostitutes [...] is retarded.”
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We live in a sad world where stigma and discrimination follow people even in death.
Yesterday the BBC reported that the body of a senegalese man had been dug up twice from his grave because he was believed to be homosexual. As in many other African countries, homosexuality is outlawed in Senegal. In Uganda “the offence” carries a life sentence on conviction, and according to the government, international NGO (including UNICEF and Amnesty International) are accused of promoting it. In Burundi, the government recently adopted a law criminalising homosexual conduct. in …



