LGBT Kenyans gain the right to organize
c. 2015 Religion News Service
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Kenya’s High Court has ruled that gay rights activists have the right to formally register their own groups and welfare organizations.
A three-judge panel issued the ruling April 24 in response to a 2013 petition by the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. The organization had unsuccessfully tried—five times—to register under the nation’s Non-Governmental Organizations Co-ordination Act since 2012 but had been rejected on grounds that Kenya’s penal code criminalized gay and lesbian associations.
