Tag: Tunisia
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Tunisia: End Persecution of LGBTQ People
Tunisia should revise its laws and practices to recognise and protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Human Rights Watch said on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
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Homophobic Tunisia invokes sharia law in bid to shut down LGBTQ rights group
Judicial harassment and rise in arrests under anti-sodomy law add to climate of tension and fear.
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Tunisia: Effort to Shut Down LGBTQ Group
The Tunisian government should halt its attempt to fight a court ruling that gave an LGBTQ association the right to operate, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Open letter to Tunisian government: stop torture & arrests of homosexual men
In November 2018, the human rights NGO Human Rights Watch published multiple accounts of men who were arrested, prosecuted and detained for homosexuality.
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Tunisia: Privacy Threatened by ‘Homosexuality’ Arrests
Tunisian authorities are confiscating and searching the phones of men they suspect of being gay and pressuring them to take anal tests and to confess to homosexual activity, Human Rights Watch said today.
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New report: Progress on LGBTQ issues in the Middle East and North Africa
Today, OutRight Action International, a LGBTIQ human rights organisation, releases the report, Activism and Resilience: LGBTQ Progress in the Arabic-speaking States in the Middle East and North Africa Region.