{"id":8556,"date":"2026-03-29T17:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:08:20","slug":"senegal-lawmakers-back-tougher-anti-lgbtq-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/29\/senegal-lawmakers-back-tougher-anti-lgbtq-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal lawmakers back tougher anti-LGBTQ+ law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senegal&#8217;s parliament has unanimously approved a bill that doubles the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to 10 years, fulfilling a major 2024 campaign promise by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The new legislation also significantly increases fines to roughly $17,700 and strictly prohibits judges from issuing suspended sentences or reduced terms for what the penal code defines as &#8220;acts against nature.&#8221; Human rights organizations report that nearly 30 men were arrested in the weeks leading up to the vote, with some also facing charges related to the &#8220;voluntary transmission&#8221; of HIV. This move reflects a growing regional trend of tightening anti-LGBTQ+ laws across Africa, where more than half of the world&#8217;s countries that criminalize same-sex relations are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 12, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/senegal-lawmakers-back-tougher-anti-lgbtq-law-with-up-to-10-years-in-prison\/a-76315569\">dw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&#8217;s parliament has unanimously approved a bill that doubles the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to 10 years, fulfilling a major 2024 campaign promise by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The new legislation also significantly increases fines to roughly $17,700 and strictly prohibits judges from issuing suspended sentences or reduced terms for what the penal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8558,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions\/8558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}