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Yvonne Wamari and Khanyo Farisé

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Yvonne Wamari and Khanyo Farisé

Yvonne Wamari is the Africa programme officer at OutRight Action International, based in Kenya, and an advocate of the high court of Kenya. Khanyo Farisè is OutRight's African advocacy officer based in Johannesburg. She is an international human rights lawyer focused on equality, non-discrimination and access to justice in Africa.

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African governments must stop harmful conversion practices to ‘cure’ sexual and gender diversity

More than half of the countries on the continent criminalise consensual same-sex relations and perceptions of LGBTIQ+ identities as disorders persist

  • Yvonne Wamari and Khanyo Farisé
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