Event
Double Tragedy: Global GBV in Same-Sex Relationships (IHSP Policy Talks Webinar)
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 12:30to13:30
IHSP Policy Talks Webinar
Double Tragedy: Global GBV in Same-Sex Relationships
Speaker:
Emmy Igonya
Medical Anthropologist (sexuality, sexual and gender diversity, sex work, drug use, HIV, infant and young child feeding)
Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, APHRC
Description:
This talk will focus on gender-based violence (GBV) in same-sex relations in Kenya and globally. It will discuss how the criminalization and stigmatization of same-sex make GBV in same-sex relations a double tragedy that is seldom talked about.