{"id":180394,"date":"2024-09-11T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivorian-lgbtqi-community-seeking-legal-protection\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T21:14:02","slug":"cote-divoire-ivorian-lgbtqi-community-seeking-legal-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivorian-lgbtqi-community-seeking-legal-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivorian LGBTQI+ Community Seeking Legal Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>This statement was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/globalvoices.org\/2024\/09\/09\/cote-divoire-lgbtq-community-is-legally-but-not-socially-accepted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">globalvoices.org<\/a> on 9 September 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>LGBTQ+ individuals from neighboring countries seek refuge in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Although homosexuality is not a criminal offense in the Republic of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, the LGBTQ+ community has no legal protections there. Amidst this legal uncertainty, LGBTQ+ individuals can organize meetings and events but remain on the margins of a society that does not accept them as fully-fledged citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Unprotected haven<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In C\u00f4te&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409110353.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 9 September 2024. LGBTQ+ individuals from neighboring countries seek refuge in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Although homosexuality is not a criminal offense in the Republic of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, the LGBTQ+ community has no legal protections there. Amidst this legal uncertainty, LGBTQ+ individuals can organize meetings and events but remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601998:0ff67b48150c603f21233401e22fd97e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,7963,5958,6183,6555,5959,6800,1218,6393,25648,257,7897,7679,254],"class_list":["post-180394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-community","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-legal","tag-lgbtqi","tag-news","tag-protection","tag-seeking","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601998:0ff67b48150c603f21233401e22fd97e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}