Tag: Uganda
World Bank will not resume Uganda projects without LGBTQ safeguards
By Joto La Jiwe
The World Bank has declared that it will insist on LGBTQ rights safeguards before new Uganda funding resumes, after it was halt [...]
Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in at least 10 nations
Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in Africa and in the Caribbean. In the map above, which shows the 66 nations with anti-homosexua [...]
Reeling from over 500 anti-LGBT abuses, Ugandan activists plead for help from West
Human rights activists in Uganda are appealing for a stronger response from Western nations that oppose Uganda's harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Act. [...]
Homosexuality has always been African, but the term LGBT is new and divisive
By Steeves Winner
Although homosexual practices exist everywhere on the African continent, many Africans reject the idea of a homosexual identi [...]
Violence against LGBTQ Ugandans surges after Anti-Homosexuality Act
By Joto La Jiwe
A new report by the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), has revealed a rapid increase in cases of violence and [...]
United front against homophobic Ugandan law? Europe says no.
Supporters of the human rights of LGBTQ people have failed to present a united front against Uganda's harsh Anti-Homosexuality Act.
Despite app [...]
Arson destroys offices of Ugandan trans organization
Arsonists attacked the offices of Uganda's TranzNetwork advocacy group on Sept. 10.
TranzNetwork Uganda is a network of organisations that work [...]
Rights defenders support World Bank suspending loans to Uganda
World Bank cut off new loans to Uganda over the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Act
LGBT rights activist Dr. Frank Mugisha says he support [...]
Do not discriminate against gay patients, Ugandan authorities tell health workers
By Joto La Jiwe
In a move that seems aimed at limiting the harms done by Uganda's newly enacted Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), the government of [...]
World Bank suspends loans to Uganda, seeks repeal of Anti-Homosexuality Law
The World Bank has suspended all future loans to the Ugandan government in response to the nation's recent passage of its harsh Anti-Homosexuality [...]
Homophobia is neither Christian nor African, says Ugandan reverend
By Joto La Jiwe
The Rev. Gideon B. Byamugisha, a renowned gay rights advocate who also represents the most at risk people of faith on Uganda's [...]
Iranian President praises anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments in Uganda
By Joto La Jiwe
During his recent state visit to Uganda, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi didn't hide his homophobia as he lauded his Ugandan c [...]
Uganda health ministry says ‘Don’t discriminate’, but the law says otherwise
Uganda's Ministry of Health is worried that the nation's harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Law will cripple the country's battle against HIV/AIDS.
F [...]
LGBTQ+ refugees in Africa celebrate Pride safely, joyously, nutritiously
Refugees in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia celebrated Pride this month with nutritious, festive meals organized by the human rights advocates of the Afr [...]
Four African nations’ battles against gay-themed films
Officials in Cameroon, Kenya, Egypt and Uganda take different approaches
Four scenes -- among many -- of homophobic African officia [...]
Ugandan anti-gay law empties out HIV clinics, cuts legal aid
LGBTI patients fear to leave their homes. Advocacy of LGBTI rights on hold at Ugandan legal aid organization.
As fearful HIV patients desert [...]
Emboldened by anti-gay law, Ugandans besiege the LGBTQ community
Now that Uganda's cruel new Anti-Homosexuality Act has taken effect, the Ugandan LGBTQ community is under siege,
Human rights activist Frank Mu [...]
Cruel Ugandan anti-gay law takes effect; legal challenges pending
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Uganda's harsh new Anti-Homosexuality Act took effect [...]
Legal challenge hits Uganda’s cruel anti-gay law; U.S. weighs travel bans, funding cuts
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U.S. officials are preparing for possible travel rest [...]
Immediate backlash after Uganda president signs cruel anti-gay bill into law
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Uganda President Yoweri Museveni today signed the cruel, [...]
Appeal to Uganda president: Save lives, ‘lead from the front’ by rejecting anti-gay bill
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President Museveni, Please Tear Up This B [...]
Ugandan peer educators — gay, arrested, labeled as porn actors
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The executive director of the non-profit African Human Rights [...]
Ugandan LGBTQ activist readies for the fight of his life
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As Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni nears a decision abo [...]
U.S. Christians keep boosting homophobic backers of Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ bill
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The TYT Network reports that the homophobic, secretive co [...]
Museveni boosts African anti-gay campaign despite inaction on Ugandan bill
Human race depends on gay people procreating, Uganda president claims.
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Uganda: Mothers of LGBTQ+ children petition Museveni to block Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Pressure mounts on President Museveni following Parliament's passage of homophobic bill.
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Ugandan journalist vows court challenge of anti-gay bill
If the President signs it, next stop will be Constitutional Court.
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Uganda races to adopt new ‘Jail the Gays Bill’, greeted by silence in U.S. and Europe
Uganda's latest "Jail the Gays Bill" has not yet aroused many strong protests from American and European supporters of the human rights of LGBTQ peopl [...]
Ugandan parliament is close to approving repressive anti-gay bill
By Joto La Jiwe
The Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, Anita Among, has given Ugandan legislators the green light to bring an anti-homosexuality [...]
Uganda demands probe into ‘LGBTQ activities’ in schools
Amid an anti-LGBTQ outburst, the Ugandan parliament is investigating what it calls "festering" homosexual activities in schools.
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Rainbow park equipment in Uganda is repainted so it won’t ‘corrupt’ children
The mayor of Entebbe in central Uganda, Fabrice Brad Rulinda, has removed rainbow-colored coats of paint from a tower in a local children’s park follo [...]
Uganda is working to stamp out groups promoting human rights for LGBTIQ people
The Ugandan government has announced plans to investigate 22 non-governmental organizations that work to improve the health of LGBTIQ Ugandans and to [...]
LBQ organisation protects sex workers from Ebola virus in Uganda
As Uganda celebrates the end of a deadly Ebola virus outbreak, health officials are praising the work of a local organization that advocates for LBQ s [...]
Homophobic Ugandan official takes aim at efforts to fight HIV in the LGBTQ community
The deputy speaker of Uganda's Parliament has raised a homophobic challenge against a national policy aimed at protecting the nation's LGBTQ communit [...]
U.S. honors Ugandan human rights defender Margaret Sekaggya
The U.S. Mission in Uganda has recognized activist Margaret Sekaggya with the Dorothy Ngalombi Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outsta [...]
Trans and LBQ sex workers most hit by sexual violence, Uganda report says
A baseline assessment on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues affecting sex workers in Uganda has revealed that transgender, lesbian, b [...]
Court kills ‘rogue and vagabond’ laws targeting Ugandan sexual minorities
Human rights organisations in Uganda welcome a December 2022 Constitutional Court ruling that struck down two key provisions of the Penal Code that la [...]
Uganda’s latest homophobic panic: Fear that gays are coming for the kids
Ugandan leaders are raising alarms based on the old homophobic delusion that LGBTQ people want to turn straight children gay.
From the Afri [...]
Activists launch website to document trans and intersex African history
A group of activists has launched an initiative to document and preserve the history of trans and intersex Africans and their struggle for equal right [...]
Uganda orders shutdown of prominent LGBT rights group SMUG
Homophobic Ugandan officials have ordered a shutdown of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), which has been the nation's most prominent support group for [...]
Anglicans derailed anti-gay vote, but 125 anti-gay bishops forge ahead
Progressive Anglican bishops breathed a sigh of relief that plans for a vote against homosexuality were derailed at the just-ended international Lambe [...]
Global South bishops push for Anglican vote against same-sex marriage
Conservative bishops from the Global South want to force a vote on same-sex marriage at the Lambeth Conference, a worldwide gathering of Anglican bish [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]