Creating Change International Panel Highlights Trans Abuses And Ugandan Needs


Posted by Daniel Villarreal | January 31, 2012 5:15 PM


http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/01/-during-creating-changes-plena.html



Nisha Ayub

Moderator Cary Alan Johnson, executive director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, noted that more than 80 countries around the world still have laws targeting sexual and gender identity at the plenary panel on "International LGBT Issues and Organizing" this weekend at Creating Change.

What's more, he said, other countries are creating new laws or worsening the penalties of their pre-existing ones. Even when such laws do not exist on the books, Johnson said, LGBT people still face arrest, abuse, and imprisonment for such crimes as loitering, immorality, and (his personal favorite) "vagabonding."