Gay bashing in Zimbabwe

In: Southern Africa report, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 13-16

Abstract

Two articles on vilification of homosexuality by Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, and reactions to this in and outside of Zimbabwe. I. Wetherell writes about what is behind Mugabe's gay-bashing campaign. M. Epprecht explores intense criticism in the international community to Mugabe's "anti-homo" campaign, the bitter debate in Zimbabwe and abroad about whether homosexuals are people deserving the same human rights as other citizens, Western hypocrisy on human rights, Zimbabwean traditions regarding homosexuality among other topics. (DÜI-Sen)