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UN Human Right’s Chief Condemns Nigeria’s Anti Gay Bill
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has condemned Nigeria’s same-sex marriage bill which sets prison terms of up to 14 years.
The bill, which was approved by Nigeria’s lawmakers last month but has yet to be signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan, also states that any person involved in gay clubs or organisations “shall be liable to a term of 10 years imprisonment.”
It is already illegal to have gay sex in the country and homosexuals say they often suffer abuse.
Navi Pillay was taking questions from around the world on the BBC’s World Have Your Say programme.
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Leon Davies
June 28, 2013 at 11:51 pm
Gay rights in Africa! It is interesting to see how the African countries are responding to this wave of gay rights sweeping across the continent. It’ is my hope we will stand firm to our values as Africans. America is not Africa, Africa stand firm and protect natural law ordained by God!
ba medza
June 29, 2013 at 7:09 am
Ndiipoo cinanivensa nsoni pakupeza ati uja muzanga pakulemela ezo caisa ija yakumbuyo…….
Mukombe
June 29, 2013 at 7:38 am
African countries should stand firm on this one. All gays must emigrate to Europe and America
xzedian
June 29, 2013 at 11:24 am
But african gays are born in africa by african parents. Why send them away?
xzedian
June 29, 2013 at 11:26 am
King Makassa Mwanga of the Baganda.. was the first recorded african homosexual in the year 1800 when the muzungu missionaries brought their bible and the gun to africa.
two spirits
June 29, 2013 at 11:29 am
Rather than emphasizing the sexuality of gay and lesbian people, many Native Americans focused on their spiritual gifts. Even today, American Indian traditionalists tend to see a person’s basic character as a reflection of their spirit. Androgynous or transgender persons are seen as doubly blessed, having both the spirit of a man and the spirit of a woman, since everything that exists is thought to come from the spirit world. Thus, they are honored for having two spirits, and are seen as more spiritually gifted than the typical masculine male or feminine female. Therefore, many Native American religions, rather than stigmatizing such persons, often looked to them as religious leaders and teachers.
Alice
June 29, 2013 at 11:39 am
There should be one law for all and a recognition that human rights come before cultural rights.
Mashoga
June 29, 2013 at 11:59 am
Mabasha and Their Mashoga in Mombasa
Among Swahili-speakers on the Kenya coast.
“In Mombasa, both male and female homosexuality is relatively common among Muslims;
involving perhaps one in twenty-five adults.”
Mombasa’s
mashoga
are passive male homosexuals offering their persons for money. They
advertise themselves in bright tight male attire in public places.
The Swahili [word] for a male homosexual is
shoga,
a word also used between women to
mean ‘friend’. Homosexual relations in Mombasa are almost without exception between a
younger, poorer partner and an older, richer one, whether their connection is for a brief act of
prostitution or a more lengthy relationship. In the former case, there are fixed rates of
payment, and in the latter, presents and perhaps full financial support for a while. But
financial considerations are always involved and it is generally only the person who is paid
who is called
shoga
. The older partner may have been a
shoga
himself in his youth, but is
very likely to be successfully married to a woman as well as maintaining an interest in boys.
Only if he is not married and has an apparently exclusive interest in homosexual contacts will
he perhaps still be referred to as a
shoga.
The paid partner usually takes the passive role
during intercourse, but I think it is true to say that his inferiority derives from the fact that he
is paid to provide what is asked for, rather than for the [sexual] role he adopts…. The paying
partner is usually known as the
basha
African
June 29, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Viva Nigeria! In fact gays must face death by hanging until prounced dead in Africa.
Barbedwire
June 29, 2013 at 8:28 pm
Thats the way to go, Zambia next!
Muzeleze2
June 30, 2013 at 1:48 pm
By design ubukala bufyile bwaingila mucinyo enormal not otherwise. Now these bazungu should not impose their stupidit on us. Let the sovereignty of each and every nation be respected.Viva Nigeria