Group urges Burundi to drop new law against homosexuality

Source: CNN

updated 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

(CNN) -- A human rights group urged Burundi to reverse a law that makes homosexuality illegal, saying it risks worsening the harsh treatment of gays in the eastern Africa nation.

The new law makes "sexual relations with persons of the same sex" illegal and punishable by up to two years in prison, Human Rights Watch said in a recently released report.

It was enacted just as the gay, lesbian and transgender community had started to mobilize and call for equal treatment, according to the organization.

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Before the law, which was passed in April, some gays and lesbians already faced significant discrimination in Burundi, according to the organization.

Some had lost their jobs, others were beaten by parents and local youths, and others were evicted, according to the Human Rights Watch report, which cited accounts by the victims.


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/03/burundi.homosexuality/index.html

They essentially tell the men of the country, you catch these perverse people doing these acts, we aren't really going to do too much if they happen to die.

Does SOS get much involved in these things when a country goes backwards on rights?

...they are only letting the bible lead the law. This is sick and disturbing...

As for the SOS...there is not much that we can do when a sovereign nation makes internal laws. It sucks to see things moving backwards in some areas. I pray for our gay brothers and sisters in Burundi.