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- ↑ Yogyakarta Principles plus 10
- ↑ "Being Tolerant Is African, Too!", Human Rights Watch, 2012-04-17, retrieved 2018-06-11
- ↑ Urquhart, Evan (2014-04-28), "LGBTQ Americans Need to Change Our Ways if We Really Want to Help Gay Africans", Slate, ISSN 1091-2339 , retrieved 2018-06-11
- ↑ Mathers, Imogen (2014-10-09), "View on Gender: A small step towards ending LGBTI persecution", SciDev.Net, retrieved 2018-06-11
- ↑ "Afrique du Sud: Les lesbiennes victimes de "viols correctifs"". www.20minutes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ↑ "Gambia: "Aggravated Homosexuality" Offence Carries Life Sentence". www.amnesty.org. 21 November 2014. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ↑ The Independent (22 November 2016). "Singapore voted against UN's sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) mandate safeguard". The Independent (Singapore). Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ↑ "African Human Rights Commission Adopts Continent's First Resolution Against Anti-LGBT Violence". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ Tabengwa, Monica (2013), "It's nature, not a crime" : discriminatory laws and LGBT people in Liberia, Human Rights Watch, ISBN 9781623130787
- ↑ Ghoshal, Neela; Tabengwa, Monica (2015), The Issue is Violence : Attacks on LGBT People on Kenya's Coast, Human Rights Watch
- ↑ "Yogyakarta Principles plus 10". Archived from the original on 2017-12-01.
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