Countries Passing Anti-LGTBQ Laws Are Some of The Worst Places For Women & Children

Thursday, 15 August 2024

By: TB Obwoge

This should be no surprise to anyone except for the people living in these countries.

I read a post from UTV Ghana a fake so-called news media platform in Ghana, even though they label their page a Ghanaian cultural page, filled with xenophobia, racism and tribalism the page posts some news. This particular post was about a famous Ghanaian posted a comment about not beating gay people.

Ghanaians called him everything from gay to a man that has sex with his daughter. These were some of the most disgusting comments ever about a man and his family. Last I checked beating people in Ghana was illgal, not like one would know this from living in the country where lynchings are still some what common.

Not to mention crimes against women and children, then laughing abou those same crimes after they've been committed.

People may lie to brag on their countries however statistics and facts don't, women in many countries with especially new Anti-LGTBQ laws have an uphill battle when it comes to being treated with dignity and respect. Not to mention having fair treatment.

In African countries with some of the newest laws, which are redundant laws I might add, all of these countries are ranked poorly when it comes to women's rights.

There are too many countries around the world that practice FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and most of them are on the African continent. Some argue that its religion however the fact that some Christian Africans also practice this shows it has nothing to do with religion for some.

Women in The Gambia won as the some people wanted the ban on FGM overturned, especially Imam Fatty.

In a strange twist many people in The Gambia are calling this FGM circumcision, as if that is not the same of mutilation of women's genitals. Women weren't born with extra skin in their vagina and there is no medical or religious reason to remove a woman's clitoris.

From Ghana which is ranked 100 out of 146 countries on the Gender scale all the way down to Nigeria which is 130 out of 146 on the same scale, West African countries are failing women. Not only are the failing women, women are being abused, raped and murdered at an alarming rate in tese countries.

Nigeria -  130 out of 146

Section 6. Discrimination and Societal Abuse

Rape and Domestic Violence: The law criminalizes rape of women and domestic violence, but not rape of men. Spousal rape is not criminalized. The government did not effectively enforce the law.

Sentences for persons convicted of rape and sexual assault were inconsistent and often minor. Federal law provides penalties ranging from 12 years to life imprisonment for offenders older than 14 and a maximum of 14 years’ imprisonment for offenders aged 14 and younger. It also provides for a public register of convicted sexual offenders and appointment of protection officers at the local government level to coordinate with courts and provide for survivors to receive various forms of assistance (e.g., medical, psychosocial, legal, rehabilitative, and for reintegration) provided by the law.

The law also includes provisions to protect the identity of rape survivors and empower courts to award appropriate compensation to survivors. Because the relevant federal law had not been adopted in all states, state law continued to govern most rape and sexual assault cases and typically allowed for lesser sentences. While some, mostly southern, states enacted laws prohibiting some forms of gender-based violence or sought to safeguard certain rights, most states did not have such legislation. Survivors generally had little or no recourse to justice.

Source: State.gov

You can read about the other countries in West Africa and their rankings. Thankfully they don't include the horror stories. They also don't always accurately represent all the issues in a country as the United States ranks itself in human rights violations.

As you can guess they're wrong as always dead wrong.

Men marrying children, rape, sexual abuse are all ignored while these government and tribal leaders know that any talk of gays or lesbians will illicit the reactions and attention from most. While child marriages and rape not so much.

While thousands of Kenyans went to the streets to protest the rising femicide cases in the country, Nigerians go to social media to post

Sex with children is often ignored and for some reason this isn't even targeted when most speak about influencing children. Even church leaders are out here having sex with children without fear of getting into any trouble.

But these acts of sex with children are not just an African societal issue, it happens all over the world. Where is the global outrage for these abuses against children? Where are the people outraged about child marriages? They seem to be pretty loud when it comes to homosexuality, from Arab Muslim countries to African countries and even the United States.

Where are the people hopping mad about sex with children and marriage to children?

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