Author: Kikonyogo Kivumbi
Uganda bids to host African HIV/AIDS conference despite human rights challenges
Uganda has started a new bid to host the 2023 International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), attempting to rehabilitate its reputation f [...]
Ugandan activists challenge HIV criminalization law
Human rights defenders in Uganda have filed their final arguments in a landmark Constitutional Court petition challenging sections of the HIV/AIDS pre [...]
Ugandan human rights report: Violence, disappearances, disputes
By a staff writer
The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), the statutory body mandated to monitor human rights and freedoms in the country, has r [...]
Ugandan vlogger’s homophobic rant puts migrant workers at risk in Middle East
A self-righteous Ugandan national living in the Middle East has released an excruciatingly homophobic online rant blasting Ugandans and other Africans [...]
Anglican archbishop urges talk, not boycott, over LGBT issues
Amid disputes over same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy, many bishops and archbishops from across the worldwide Anglican Communion are gearing up for the [...]
Uganda Constitutional Court gives activists seven days to file final arguments in HIV criminalization suit
The Constitutional Court of Uganda gave plaintiffs seven days from June 7 to file their final arguments in a landmark case challenging sections of the [...]
Warning to LGBT organizations in Uganda: Be cyber smart
LGBT advocacy organizations in Uganda are at risk of cyber attacks, according to a report published by Key Populations Uganda (KPU). The organization [...]
Ugandan activists launch campaign against religion-fueled homophobia
Human rights activists in Uganda have launched a new campaign to end religious inspired homophobia, with a call to Abrahamic religions to embrace love [...]
High Court delays ruling on closure of Ugandan gay ally group Chapter Four
Uganda’s High Court in Kampala has postponed ruling on an application seeking to quash the government’s decision to indefinitely suspend the activitie [...]
Another South African LGBTQIA+ activist stabbed to death
A South African LGBTQIA+ activist was stabbed to death on Sunday, March 20, allegedly because she spurned a man who proclaimed his love for her.
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Homophobic candidate seeks top post in Ugandan parliament
Jacob Oboth Oboth, Uganda's homophobic State Minister for Defense, has resigned his position to allow him join the race to become Speaker of Parliamen [...]
A year of progress on global LGBTQ rights, but so much remains to do
COMMENTARY: U.S. support of worldwide LGBTQ rights during the first year of the Biden administration led to "significant progress" but "there is far t [...]
South Africa, stop the murders of LGBTI people
Global human rights organisation Human Rights Watch has formally written to the South African government about killings and assaults on LGBTI people " [...]
Uganda rebuffs U.N. nations’ pleas to protect LGBTI rights
During an international review of Uganda's human rights record, the Ugandan government made no direct mention of LGBTI rights and did not commit to ad [...]
Activists laud U.S. program that helps LGBTI Ugandans in fight against HIV
Gay rights activists in Uganda recently joined the United States government in celebrating 19 years of Pepfar, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for [...]
Ugandan court to rule on shutdown of LGBT ally organisation Chapter Four
Uganda's High Court in Kampala has set March 18 as the date to rule on an application seeking to quash the government's decision to indefinitely suspe [...]
Uganda replaces intelligence officer hit with US sanctions
The Ugandan government has relieved Maj. Gen. Abel Kandiho of his role as Commander of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), weeks after the [...]
Paul Ssemwogerere, who calls homosexuality abnormal, installed as Ugandan archbishop
The Most Rev. Bishop Paul Ssemwogere has today (Jan. 25) officially been installed as the Archbishop of Uganda's Kampala Archdiocese, replacing the l [...]
Kenya lawmakers seek ban on surrogate mothers for LGBTQ people
Kenyan lawmakers are considering a bill to prohibit gays and lesbians from using surrogate mothers to have children.
From the African Human R [...]
Dr Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan LGBT ally, flees for safety to Germany
Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar Dr Stella Nyanzi has fled to Germany with her children over fears of government persecution, arrest and torture [...]
Paul Ssemogerere, who says homosexuality is against nature, appointed Archbishop of Kampala
Bishop Paul Ssemogerere, who has previously argued that homosexuality is against the order of nature and the teachings of the Catholic Church, was app [...]
Ugandan LGBT ally Sylvia Tamale receives honorary doctorate
Professor Sylvia Tamale, a Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Pretoria in Sou [...]
Legendary gay and lesbian rights defender Desmond Tutu has died
Desmond Tutu , the iconic LGBT human rights defender and anti-apartheid champion, the retired archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, has died. Tutu, [...]
Ugandan LGBT ally lawyer Nicholas Opiyo wins Human Rights Tulip award
Ugandan human rights lawyer and LGBT ally Nicholas Opiyo has won this year's Human Rights Tulip Award for his work protecting civil liberties and advo [...]
Archbishop Tutu boosts Bible guide promoting love for queer Africans
Does the Bible condemn homosexuality? Not according to a The Bible and "Homosexuality," a new guide book from South Africa's Inclusive and Affirming M [...]
LGBTI activists live in fear amid renewed protests in Sudan
Queer activists in Sudan say they're living in fear after police on Monday fired tear gas at protesters during renewed pro-democracy protests seeking [...]
U.S. sanctions Uganda intelligence chief over ‘serious human rights abuse’
The United States government has imposed economic and travel sanctions on a senior intelligence official in Uganda, Major General Abel Kandiho, the co [...]
Uganda gay rights activists renew call: ‘End Inequalities, End AIDS’
LGBT rights defenders have reiterated the call to the Ugandan government to fast-track efforts aimed at ending inequalities in access to care, treatme [...]
Ugandan transgender community marks Trans Day of Remembrance
The LGBTQI+ community and human rights defenders in Uganda joined the International community on Nov 20 to commemorate the 22nd Transgender Day of Rem [...]
Gay man survives homophobic attack in eastern Uganda
A member of the LGBT community in eastern Uganda was attacked at home on Nov. 25 by men brandishing machetes and chanting homophobic slurs.
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Biden is silent when a loud message on global LGBT rights is needed
COMMENTARY: The United States has missed important opportunities to send a strong, clear, much-needed message about the nation's commitment to global [...]
Report: Covid-19 threatens LGBTIQ+ Africans and their organisations
Covid-19 has hurt LGBTIQ+ communities in east and southern Africa while also revealing weaknesses in the region's LGBTIQ+ advocacy organisations, acco [...]
Queer lives in fragile Sudan: Amid turmoil, glimmers of hope
Queer people have long been excluded from Sudans' political life and social mainstream, but some believe the country's currently tumultuous transition [...]
Uganda issues corrected national ID document for trans woman
The Ugandan government has issued a national Identification document to Cleopatra Kambugu, a transgender woman, clearly identifying her as a woman, in [...]
Religious leaders in Uganda commit to LGBTQ inclusivity
More than 35 religious leaders in Uganda have vowed to preach, practice, and promote inclusivity in their places of worship, saying that exclusion has [...]
Activists want Kenyan gays’ rights on agenda when Biden meets Kenyatta
A section of Kenyan human rights defenders want US President Joe Biden to raise the issue of safety and security of homosexuals in Kenya when the two [...]
Uganda, US faith leaders discuss LGBTQI rights in Africa
Faith leaders from the United States and Uganda called upon churches in Africa to open their doors to LGBTQI persons at a virtual conference organised [...]
Uganda’s Constitutional Court begins hearing challenge to HIV criminalization law
The Constitutional Court of Uganda has begun hearing a landmark case on the right to health, in which LGBT and human rights defenders sued the state f [...]
Uganda’s Constitutional Court annuls Anti-Pornography Act
Uganda's Constitutional Court has annulled sections of the Anti-Pornography Act 2014, ruling that the clauses were vague, unconstitutional, and uncert [...]
Ugandan President sends new anti-gay bill back to Parliament
Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni has declined to assent to the Sexual Offences Bill (2021) passed by Parliament in May, which included stiffer pena [...]
Amid continued criminalisation, Uganda endorses LGBT access for HIV treatment
Despite ongoing criminalization of men who have sex with men and transgender people, the government of Uganda is attempting to include them in nationa [...]
COVID-19 complicates access to TB, HIV services for Uganda MSM
Activists in Uganda are saying that men who have sex with men face increased difficulties in accessing essential health services like tuberculosis (TB [...]
Food starts to reach hungry LGBT Ugandans stranded by lockdown
Emergency food deliveries have started to get through to LGBT Ugandans, sex workers and human rights defenders who were left stranded and hungry by th [...]
Senior Uganda government health rights ally Prof. Anthony Mbonye has died
Prof. Anthony Mbonye, the former Director General of Uganda's Health Services who has been instrumental in advocating for healthcare access for homose [...]
Gay and trans criminalization fuels HIV spread: UNAIDS
Criminalization of transgender people, homosexuality, and sex work holds back global advances in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to a new report [...]
Times are changing in Uganda: Parliament gets a progressive clerk
In what appears to be a positive shift in state policy thinking, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Adolf Mwesige, a liberal and progress [...]
Trans Ugandans issue desperate food appeal as lockdown bites harder
Transgender rights defenders in Uganda have issued a desperate appeal for food for the transgender community amid the ongoing COVID-19 countrywide loc [...]
AIDS conference organisers silent as violence sweeps host South Africa
Organisers of the 2021 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) have remained silent about prospects for [...]
Ugandan clinic denies using donor funds to offer ‘conversion therapy’ to gays
A Ugandan clinic at the center of accusations of covertly using donor funds to offer "conversion therapy" to turn homosexuals straight has issued a st [...]
Uganda lockdown hampers rural LGBT access to life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs
Gay rights activists in Uganda are reporting difficulty in delivering life-saving anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive community members during the o [...]