Kenyan LGBT refugees live in fear of rape and assault
Lesbian and gay refugees live in fear for their lives in the Kakuma refugee camp, with, they say, the police and UN doing little to help
28 April 2020 - 14:08
Nairobi — Eva Nabagala hoped she and her young son would be safe from her family when they fled Uganda for a Kenyan refugee camp — but instead she was attacked and raped there as punishment for being a lesbian.
“I have been threatened with death, I have been beaten, I have been harassed sexually, and I have been sexually abused, raped,” Nabagala said...
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