Gay Sex Law Upheld by Kenya's High Court
The judges have declined to decriminalise same-sex relationships, despite it sparking "harassment, arbitrary arrest, evictions, limitations in freedoms of association, limitations in access to social services like health and all forms of violence including sexual abuse".
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