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.
