OUT & PROUD | Southern Africa and LGBTI Rights
Tuesday, October 4 | Via Zabaglia, 14 | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Sign up for the workshop: https://bit.ly/3SfVY58
Across Southern Africa, LGBTI people remain vulnerable to homotransphobia, persecution, and discrimination based on their sexual orientation and actual or perceived gender identity.
Malawi, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe have laws that criminalize same-sex relations, with severe legal penalties and arrests documented even in the last three years.
Laws, stigma, and discrimination expose LGBTI people to violence and abuse at all levels, social, economic, and health.
The situation described results in LGBTI activists and their organizations being weak, limited in their strategic and operational capacity, and with few alliances.The workshop, developed in collaboration with the NGO COSPE, offers an in-depth look at the issue of migration related to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.We will welcome the story of the trans activist Sam Ndlovu and we will have the opportunity to tell him about our experience with the Gay Help Line service.
Speakers will include:
Sam Ndlovu, transgender activist from Zimbabwe
Federica Masi, “Out&Proud” project manager for COSPE
Alessandra Rossi, Gay Help Line Coordinator
and the staff of the Intercultural Help Desk