Lesbians at Risk in South Africa
- Author:
- United Nations
- Publisher:
- United Nations
- Publication Date:
- 19 December 2012
- Tags:
- South Africa, Human Rights, Women and Gender, Legal and Judicial Affairs
In South Africa, one group of women, lesbians, are especially at risk. They're the target of a particularly heinous crime, "curative" or "corrective" rape, which perpetrators believe will change their sexual orientation. Now survivors like Oyama Mbopa are finding the courage to confront sexual violence and discrimination.