Burundi IDAHO report 2013

On May 17, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia, a coalition of organisations defending sexual minorities in Burundi launched a powerful new short documentary. The 25 minute film is structured around telling the stories of different LGBT people in Burundi. Activists also conducted specific awareness raising activities in the rural cities of Gitega, Muramvya, Mwaro, Rutana and Ruyigi. In Burundi, anti-homosexuality legislation was only just recently toughened, with sentences ranging potentially as far as life imprisonment.
The video was produced by a coalition of organisations defending sexual minorities in Burundi (Humure,
Moli, RCL and TWW).

You can view it in full here:

(In French only for now)
 
Furthermore, the organisation MUCO w’urwaruka organised a conference bringing together key stakeholders to discuss national strategies to promote the Human Rights of sexual minorities under the theme ‘Homophobia + Criminalisation = Vulnerability’, underlining the dramatic impact criminalisation of same-sex relationships has on HIV infection amongst Men who have Sex with Men.