LGBTIQ+ face mounting violence and discrimination, warns UN rights chief

Key points

• That’s the worrying message from UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, who says that more than one in three countries still criminalize consensual same-sex conduct and several also maintain the death penalty for it.
• “The trend is worsening.
• Over the past year, Burkina Faso criminalized consensual same-sex relations,” the High Commissioner for Human Rights insisted.
• “Senegal increased prison terms for same-sex sexual acts from five to 10 years.
• Similar laws are being considered in other countries, including Ghana.” Repression trend Tweet URL These countries also have discriminatory laws that penalize the dissemination of information about LGBTIQ+ issues, with similar legal restrictions in operation in Belarus and Kazakhstan, Mr.