Afriques en Lutte

Tunisie : Marwan was arrested, tortured and sent to jail in Tunisia for being gay

All Out — 2015-10-11T03:54:00Z

URGENT : Marwan was arrested, tortured, and sent to jail in Tunisia, just for for being gay. But his appeal is coming up and authorities could decide at any moment whether to free him. Click here to automatically sign the petition urging for his release.
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Tortured for being gay. That's what happened to Marwan, a 22-year-old student in Tunisia. When police found text messages to other men on his phone, they arrested him. They performed a horrific medical exam to ‘prove' that he was gay. (…)

- Tunisie / Action Militante, Homosexualité

Nigeria : A lesbian sentenced to death

All Out — 2014-04-24T03:06:00Z

Aderonke's family was killed and she was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death in Nigeria for being a lesbian. She fled to safety in the UK.
She went through a humiliating interrogation by UK officials who didn't believe she's a lesbian. Aderonke's waiting to hear from a judge who could decide to send her back to Nigeria – where she could be killed.
But there's still a chance to help her. The UK Home Office just announced that the process they use for lesbian, gay, bi and trans (…)

- Nigeria / Homosexualité, solidarité

Ouganda - Orange : une publicité dangereuse

All Out — 2014-03-12T04:09:00Z

Les 200 principaux homos d'Ouganda". Un journal ougandais vient de publier les noms et photos d'Ougandais homosexuels. Plusieurs victimes de cette liste ont déjà été attaquées. Cela pourrait annoncer une vague géante de persécutions et même de meurtres par des "justiciers" anti-gays auto-proclamés.
Nous avons découvert que l'entreprise française Orange et d'autres grandes multinationales achètent des encarts publicitaires dans ces journaux. Si nous convainquons Orange de retirer ses fonds (…)

- Ouganda / Homosexualité

Ouganda : Harassment against lesbian, bi, gay and trans people

All Out — 2014-03-09T04:22:00Z

‘Exposed ! Uganda's Top 200 Homos' — A newspaper in Uganda is now revealing the identities of gay, lesbian, bi and trans people. It's terrifying and could lead to arrests or vigilante killings.
Here's the thing : major global corporations like Orange are actually advertising in this newspaper. If we can get Orange to pull their adverts, that could make the editor think twice about running “gay exposés”.
If tens of thousands of us sign the petition, we can show Orange that they are (…)

- Ouganda / Homosexualité

Ouganda : Kill the bill !

All Out — 2014-02-24T11:27:00Z

In 24 hours, Uganda's President Museveni is planning to sign into law one of the worst anti-gay laws in the world. He thinks he has more to win than to lose by targeting gay people.
But we can change his calculations, if we can get other world leaders to apply real pressure in the next 24 hours. World leaders could make things hard for Uganda's politicians – refusing visas so they can't travel the world and withdrawing diplomats and advisors.
This horrendous bill has been stalled time (…)

- Ouganda / Homosexualité