Malawi Constitutional Court considers LGBTQ, intersex rights cases
Malawi’s LGBTQ and intersex community is awaiting for the outcome of two cases currently before the Constitutional Court that could see the legalization of same-sex sexual relations in the country.
The Constitutional Court is currently considering two cases that Wim Akster, a Dutch national, and Jana Gonani, a local transgender woman from Mangochi, brought in order to acknowledge the rights of the LGBTQ and intersex community.
The Constitutional Court on Monday began to hear arguments brought in by the duo’s lawyers as well as state prosecutors. The cases have been adjourned to Aug.
28. Several religious leaders — including Muslim and Christian — as well as government officials took to the streets of Blantyre, where the cases are being heard, before the hearings began and demonstrated against the legalization of same-sex marriages.
