The international legal framework on protection of sexual minority rights in Kenya
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2014-05
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Kampala International University, School of Law
Abstract
This dissertation contributes to understanding the problematic aspect of
heterosexual dominance in leading development discourse, most especially in
relation to gender, sexuality and human rights. In order to embrace a full
perspective of gender, an expansion of the rights-based approach to include
sexual minorities is suggested.
Based on the lived experiences of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in
Kampala, Uganda and other countries in Africa, it is argued that human rights
are constantly negotiated and interpreted to legitimize asocial and legal
exclusion of selected members of society. Qualitative methodology has been
employed to investigate issues of health, participation, employment and
personal safety. The voices of the marginalised are explored from a local
context and show that discrimination of sexual minorities is institutionalised
and difficult to combat as the present human rights framework refrains from
directly including this group as right-holders. The author argues that there is a strong relation between lack of sexual rights and marginalization, where the latter occurs as a direct result of social and
legal pervasive practices of discrimination in society, ranging from the
government level to the nuclear family.
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A research dissertation submitted to the School of law in fulfillment Of the requirements for the Award of a Bachelor’s Degree in Law Of Kampala International University
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Sexual minority rights, Protection