State-Sponsored Homophobia and its Consequences in Southern Africa
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.
ISBN: 2866
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- Glossary of Key Terms
- I. Introduction
- II. The Spread of Homophobic Rhetoric in Southern Africa
- III. The Hand of the State: Abuse and Discrimination by State Actors
- IV. "Nowhere is Really Safe": Violence and Harassment by Non-State Actors
- V. Realizing Rights: The Challenge of South Africa
- VI. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Methodology






