{"id":7596,"date":"2021-09-17T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2023-04-26T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:31:15","slug":"hanging-between-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/hanging-between-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging between Life and Death: Kakuma Camp, September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Countering Hate Speech with Love Speech: LGBT+ Lives on the Line in Kenya\u2019s Kakuma Camp<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog was written by Dr Helen Hintjens from the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and Isa Mubiru and Jones Graham from Block 13 in Kenya\u2019s Kakuma Camp. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Covid Chronicles from the Margins aims to provide participatory spaces, where our audiences in refugee camps can bring together images, text, videos, poems and artwork, placed on the site and shared with others. Below, a group of LGBT+ refugees from Kakuma camp in Kenya follow up<\/a> their earlier blogs<\/a>, sharing thoughts on the meaning of love and peace, in the context of attacks on them by other refugees in the camp. Their struggle for basic rights to protection and safety<\/a>, and for the right to love whom they wish, started before the pandemic<\/a>, and has been reported in international media<\/a>. The suspension of resettlement interviews and the decision to close the camp have added another dimension, creating new tensions. One recent development has been posting of hate speech posters around the camp. In light of this, UNHCR\u2019s complete failure to protect the residents of Block 13 and other LGBT+ refugees living in Kakuma, remains the key issue.<\/p>\n\n\n
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