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Considérés comme des menaces pour l’identité et la moralité nationales, des militants, souvent décrits comme des agents de forces étrangères ou néocoloniales, sont attaqués et, lors des campagnes électorales, les citoyens LGBTI sont de plus en plus utilisés comme des boucs émissaires pour distraire les électeurs des véritables sources des maux politiques et économiques du pays.
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For those civil society organisations and citizen movements seeking to fight back, the ongoing global clampdown on civic space has had a severe effect. Since 2013, Algeria, Lithuania, Nigeria and Russia have all passed laws prohibiting ‘homosexual propaganda’, making it difficult – if not impossible – for LGBTI civil society organisations to operate without interference from the state. Activists, often portrayed as agents of foreign or neo-colonial forces, are attacked as a threat to national identity and morality. And, in the run-up to elections, LGBTI citizens are increasingly being used as scapegoats to distract voters from the true source of a country’s political and economic ills.
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