Many leaders in southern Africa have singled out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as scapegoats for their countries' problems, Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) state in this report. The two international human rights monitoring organizations released a new book-length report, More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and its Consequences in Southern Africa. The 298 page report documents pervasive harassment and violence against sexual minorities in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The report documents verbal attacks, police harassment, official crackdowns, and community violence aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Victims have been assaulted, imprisoned, expelled from schools, fired from jobs, denied access to medical care, evicted from their homes, and driven into exile or, in some cases, to suicide.
Situation Analysis of Discrimination and Stigmatization against People Living with HIV/AIDS in West and Central Africa: Ethical and Legal Considerations
The situation analysis of discrimination, stigmatization and the ethical and leg
