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19 April 2013
Zimbabwe: Campaigners mark country’s independence with call for LGBT rights + With Zimbabwe marking 33 years of independence, campaigners are using the anniversary to remind people that the country is still a long way from securing LGBT rights.
25 March 2013
EU eases restrictions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government 9 Despite its reputation for violating human and LGBT rights, the EU has suspended the majority of its sanctions against Zimbabwe’s government.
20 March 2013
Pope Francis criticised for greeting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe 38 Pope Francis has been criticised by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell for meeting with President Robert Mugabe.
8 March 2013
Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai accused of ‘hate speech’ by gay rights group 11 Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has been criticised for denouncing homosexuality and reportedly saying marriage “should be between a man and a woman.”
21 February 2013
Comment: A day in the life of Peter Tatchell 28 Britain's most famous human rights campaigner talks about his daily routine and how he has to go to bed with "a siren alarm, fire extinguisher and rope ladder" - every night.
29 January 2013
Zimbabwe: New draft constitution includes equal marriage ban 15 A new Zimbabwean draft constitution includes a clause banning equal marriage for gay couples.
22 August 2012
Zimbabwe: LGBT activists being visited by police after last week’s raid 10 Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) say that some of the LGBT campaigners arrested last week are being visited by police at home and that those who were not arrested have been ordered to report to their local police stations.
14 August 2012
Police raid headquarters of Zimbabwean LGBT rights group 19 A police raid took place on the headquarters of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) association in Harare over the weekend, in which police arrested 44 gay rights activists.
4 July 2012
Zimbabwe: Gay rights group to be charged with insulting Mugabe 58 Police in Zimbabwe have summoned the director of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe group and intend to charge the organisation with insulting the president, Robert Mugabe.
30 May 2012
Updated: Robert Mugabe made a ‘leader for tourism’ by UN agency 49 The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, who said gay people 'offend against the law of nature' has been made a 'leader for tourism' by the UN's World Tourism Organisation.
25 May 2012
President Mugabe: homosexuality will ‘lead to extinction’ 86 President Robert Mugabe has spoken out once more against homosexuality, saying it will kill off the human race, and does not belong in Zimbabwe.
7 March 2012
Zimbabwe state media ‘backs’ Scottish cardinal on ‘grotesque’ gay marriages 41 Zimbabwe's state-controlled Herald newspaper is backing the head of the Scottish Catholic Church in his attack on proposals to allow gay couples to marry.
27 February 2012
Robert Mugabe attacks gays in birthday rant 60 Mugabe, 88, attacked the West and its promotion of equal rights for gays and appeared to add that his dog would be offended were it to be compared with British prime minister David Cameron.
25 January 2012
Peter Tatchell on arresting Robert Mugabe and interrupting Archbishop Carey 6 In Peter Tatchell's own words, his account of hijacking the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter Sermon in 1998 and his first attempt at a citizen's arrest of Robert Mugabe.
8 January 2012
Comment: How and why PinkNews will be celebrating Peter Tatchell Day 15 Peter Tatchell has changed Britain and the world for the better in his decades of campaigning.
6 January 2012
Zimbabwe mayor rubbishes claims his pink bins were pulled 7 A Zimbabwe mayor has insisted his city council will use the twenty pink dustbins donated by a pro-gay rights group as soon as he can find prominent spaces for them.
29 December 2011
Zimbabwe MP bailed after allegedly claiming Robert Mugabe had gay affairs 15 A Zimbabwean MP who was arrested last week after saying President Robert Mugabe had sex with other male politicians has been released on bail of $200 today, the state newspaper says.
21 December 2011
Zimbabwe MP arrested for claiming Robert Mugabe “practised homosexuality” 63 A female member of parliament in Zimbabwe has been arrested after claiming the president, Robert Mugabe, had a sexual relationship with former president Canaan Banana.
7 December 2011
Obama pledges aid and asylum support for overseas gay rights 14 New instructions issued by the Obama administration call for US government agencies to consider gay rights when deciding aid and asylum cases.
24 October 2011
Zimbabwe prime minister says gay rights are ‘human rights’ 107 Zimbabwe's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has done a U-turn on gay rights and says he now wants them protected under the new constitution.

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