Tag: Covid-19 lockdown
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 [...]
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 [...]
Break-in at offices of Ugandan LGBT ally lawyer Nicholas Opiyo
Unknown people on Thursday, March 18, broke into the offices of Chapter Four Uganda and prominent gay rights ally Nicholas Opiyo, who leads that human [...]
2020 was a ‘dark’ year for the LGBTQI community in Uganda
The safety of sexual minority communities in Uganda has been a big concern for years, but 2020 will go down as one of their "darkest" years, especiall [...]
LGBTI in Uganda: How to survive a pandemic
Get ready for "In the Eyes of a Pandemic", a documentary about how the Ugandan LGBTI and sex workers communities are coping with Covid-19. See the tra [...]
UNAIDS chief: We must focus anti-AIDS efforts on stigmatised minorities
The world's fight against HIV / AIDS needs to focus on homosexuals, sex workers, injecting drug users and migrant populations, says the leader of the [...]
Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan LGBT ally, arrested at Covid-19 protest
Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar Dr Stella Nyanzi was arrested today in Kampala at a public protest demanding food for women and vulnerable peop [...]
Day 44: Uganda court sets bail hearing for 19 LGBT detainees
A magistrate in Uganda has ordered prison authorities to produce 19 members of the LGBT community who have been on remand since March, charged with vi [...]
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