This 90-page report is organised around six indicators for documenting and responding to violence perpetrated against LGBTQI persons, over five case study countries: Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Uganda. Indicators prompt states and civil society to, for example, consider the extent to which government authorities collect, disaggregate and analyse data relating to LGBTQI-based violence, or document the number of incidents of anti-LGBTQI violence and report these to government bodies.
The findings are based on an extensive desk review and supplementary interviews. For each case study, the paper identifies a range of political, social and cultural factors that permit or deny the rights of LGBTQI persons, or perpetuate the experience of gender-based violence. For example, in the Botswana case study, the sections are as follows: (1) background information including the basic rights of LGBTQI people in their daily lives, (2) their formal legal status, (3) important cases passed in law relating to LGBTQI rights, (4) social contexts, encompassing public discourse in the political and religious spheres, and (5) LGBTQI people and HIV/AIDS.
The document holds six key recommendations early on in the paper. Recommendations include ensuring prevention of violence against LGBTQI persons is linked to broader systemic violence prevention work; engaging the state in consistent and specific programs of data collection; and ensuring that data collection is coordinated and adequately networked.
