Tag: President Yoweri Museveni
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Convicted homosexuals to be included in Uganda sex offender registry
Ugandans convicted of having sex with people of the same sex would be included in a new sex offender registry, following the passage by Parliament of [...]
Police brutality: Activists demand ICASA boycott of Uganda
African human rights defenders are seeking to move the preeminent African anti-AIDS conference out of Uganda because of human rights abuses by Uganda' [...]
Covid-19: Ugandan activists condemn attacks targeting women
Advocates for human rights, LGBT people and sex workers last week denounced raids, arrests, extortion, and attacks by Ugandan police and officials enf [...]
Uganda: Two trans women brutally attacked; one is missing
Transgender women in Uganda are living in fear after a brutal attack on two trans women Oct. 12 in Kampala, which came amid renewed calls by some of t [...]
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