Monday, July 28, 2014

U.S. Restricts Police Aid to Africa Over Effects of Anti-LGBT Law - News Flash

Making Love a Crime: Criminalization of Same-Sex Conduct in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
By Colby Goodman, Senior Research Associate at the Security Assistance Monitor and a member of Amnesty USA’s Military, Security and Police Working Group
     Late last month, the Obama Administration took the unusual step of suspending U.S. security assistance to Uganda in connection with its new “Anti-Homosexuality Act,” raising the possibility of similar U.S. restrictions for other African states on the eve of the U.S.-Africa Summit.
According to a June 24th Amnesty International fact sheet, homosexuality is illegal in 38 African countries and punishable by death in four of these states (Mauritania, northern Nigeria, southern Somalia and Sudan). For full article, click here.