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Author: Keaton Kidist Allen-Gessesse

10 Dec

COVID-19 and Africa Symposium: The Intersection of LGBT Rights in Africa and the COVID-19 Pandemic

[Keaton Kidist Allen-Gessesse is a Johannesburg-based human rights lawyer with a focus on gender and sexual rights in Africa.]   As with all crises, it is the most marginalized amongst us who have disproportionately suffered the dire consequences of this global pandemic.   The world has watched in horror as internal migrants walked thousands of kilometers across India, African-Americans died of COVID-19 at frighteningly higher death rates,...

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