GENEVA — UN Watch has called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon, rights commissioner Prince Zeid, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and the EU’s Catherine Ashton to condemn yesterday’s UN election of slave-holding Mauritania, misogynistic Pakistan, gay-bashing Uganda and repressive Zimbabwe to its 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a top U.N. body that regulates human rights groups, shapes the composition of…
HARARE, Zimbabwe – The offices of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), a voluntary association founded in 1990 to serve the needs and interests of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe, have been raided by the Zimbabwe Republic Police for the second time in two weeks. Police seized computers and GALZ literature claiming they were searching…
HARARE, Zimbabwe – A member of the Zimbabwean Parliament has been released after spending Christmas in jail for allegedly saying President Robert Mugabe had had gay sex. BBC News reported that Lynette Karenyi, from the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, was arrested after reportedly saying, “Zanu PF members have been attacking MDC…
