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RSS FeedUganda: Prize awarded to SMUG
2011-10-13, Issue 552
The 2011 Rafto Prize is to be awarded to Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). Frank Mugisha, executive director of SMUG, will receive the award on behalf of the organisation. The prize is awarded to SMUG for its work to make fundamental human rights appl...
Kenya: LGBTI pastoralist organisation launched
2011-10-13, Issue 552
Behind the Mask’s Melissa Wainaina revisits Upper Rift Minorities, an LGBTI organisation in Kenya dedicated to the nomad and pastoralists of remote northern Kenya. Behind the Mask featured the organisation in August 2011 and it was struggling to get ...
Kenya: Outrage as LGBTI activist denied visa
2011-10-13, Issue 552
Kate Kamunde, a well-known Kenyan LGBTI activist has for the second time been denied a visa to attend a rights training session in Canada. The visa denial has caused dismay in civil society circles with the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi coming ...
South Africa: Four guilty of lesbian’s murder
2011-10-09, Issue 551
Four people were found guilty of the murder of lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana in a judgment handed down in the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court on Friday, SAFM reported. Magistrate Raadiya Whaten said the testimony of two witnesses led to the conclusion that...
Africa: UK to reduce aid to Africa's anti-gay regimes
2011-10-10, Issue 551
African countries which persecute gays will have their aid cut, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has said. He was quoted by the Britain’s Mail on Sunday saying that already his country has cut aid to Malawi by £19million after two ...
Nigeria: New bill prohibiting same sex marriage before parliament
2011-09-29, Issue 550
For the third time in five years the Nigerian parliament is considering a law seeking to prohibit same sex marriage after a new bill was presented to the House. The Nigeria government has been seeking to further criminalise same-sex relations in Nige...
Kenya: LBTI women’s rights exhibition in Nairobi
2011-09-29, Issue 550
The Girl Art Project is a one of a kind exhibition in Nairobi running from 18 October to 8 November, 2011 at the Godown Arts Centre. It is a joint project between two groups MWA, Minority Women in Action which advocates for LBTI women’s rights and AF...
Uganda: LGBTI human rights defender receives Kennedy Award
2011-09-22, Issue 549
Frank Mugisha, a Ugandan LGBTI human rights defender has been selected for the 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. He has been commended for his work in the LGBTI community especially in Uganda. Mugisha is the Executive Director of Sexual Mino...
Africa: Homophobia in Africa
2011-09-13, Issue 547
In a blog post, Peter Kenworthy explores how many African leaders in particular see homosexuality as 'un-natural' and 'un-African' and do not believe that homosexuals should have any rights at all. Homophobia is therefore not only illegal and punisha...
Africa: Africa and Middle East in spotlight
Group launched to tackle homophobia
2011-09-13, Issue 547
An international pressure group is to be launched in Britain to tackle the rise in homophobic violence around the world, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East. The UK's three main political parties have declared their support for Kaleidoscope, a...
Uganda: ‘Family’ campaign calls for progress on anti-gay bill
2011-09-13, Issue 547
A ‘family’ campaign in Uganda is urging lawmakers to pass the notorious anti-homosexuality bill. The Family Life Network and Uganda Coalition for Moral Values says the government should do the 'right' thing, rather than bow to international pressure....
Nigeria: Persecuted for being gay
2011-09-14, Issue 547
Bisi Alimi contributes to a series by The Guardian on voices of people from around the world who have found themselves stigmatised for their sexuality. While at university in Nigeria and standing for election, a magazine wrote about him and exposed h...
Nigeria: FIFA to investigate homophobic women's football coach
2011-09-15, Issue 547
The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) say they have opened an investigation into homophobic comments made by Nigerian football coach Eucharia Uche....
Uganda: Bishop calls Christian America to 'stop exporting hate'
2011-09-16, Issue 547
The work of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, a retired Anglican Bishop from the Diocese of Western Uganda, has become increasingly vital over time, heightened by the intensifying persecution of homosexuals in his country. Taking the courageous step of mi...
Cameroon: Stand with Alice
2011-09-19, Issue 547
Alice N'Kom is one of the only attorneys in Cameroon who defends people who've been jailed for the 'crime' of being gay. In the last 2 weeks, gay men have been snatched from their homes and public places and thrown in jail just for being gay. The sit...
Nigeria: African lesbians launch West African LGBT Human Rights Defenders project
2011-09-01, Issue 546
Friday August 26, 2011 saw the Coalition of African Lesbians, CAL, launch its LGBT Human Rights Defenders, HRD project in Lagos, Nigeria. Participants in the HRD workshop, which was held in collaboration with The Initiative for Equal Rights, TIER, a ...
Cameroon: Alleged homosexuals denied bail
2011-09-05, Issue 546
Two men who are currently being tried for alleged homosexuality in Yaounde were recently denied bail. Police said the men - aged 19 and 20 - were caught having oral sex in a car after visiting a nightclub in the capital, Yaounde. Their bail applicati...
Kenya: LGBTI Kenyans speak of violence against them for being 'different'
2011-09-06, Issue 546
Even as Kenyan LGBTI activists fight for legal recognition they are confronted by the spectre of violence against community members based upon their sexual orientation. Many members of the LGBTI community have faced violence in the course of their li...
Kenya: Queer cinema comes to Kenya
2011-09-09, Issue 546
The Inaugural OUT Film Festival will be the first public showing of cinema that reflects the life of sexual minorities. The film festival wants to make known a community that Kenyan society deems to be secret. The festival aims to entertain, educate ...
Uganda: UK denies leading Ugandan LGBT activist a visa
2011-08-18, Issue 545
The British government has denied a visa to Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesra, a leading LGBT activist in Uganda and the 2011 winner of the prestigious Martin Ennals award for Human Rights. She had been invited to open Foyle Pride in Derry, Northern Ireland...
Africa: American anti-gay campaign in Africa opposes sexual rights
2011-08-22, Issue 545
Sharon Slater, American anti-gay activist and president of Family Watch International, recently encouraged delegates attending a law conference in Lagos, Nigeria to resist the United Nations’ calls to decriminalise homosexuality. Keynoting the Nigeri...
Ghana: Rights chief says she won't fight for gay rights
2011-08-16, Issue 545
The newly appointed boss of Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Lauretta Lamptey has said she will not fight for the rights of homosexuals as the law deems their activities to be criminal. Lamptey also said that the...
Uganda: Call for police to investigate raids on LGBT groups
2011-08-10, Issue 544
International NGO Human Rights First (HRF) has issued a call for pressure on the Ugandan authorities to properly investigate last week's break ins at the offices of LGBT groups Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG). And ...
Ghana: Fightback begins against homophobic attacks
2011-08-10, Issue 544
After initially trying 'quiet diplomacy', Ghanaian LGBT have formed an alliance with civil society supporters to oppose an increasingly vociferous anti-gay campaign in that country. A Coalition Against Homophobia in Ghana (CAHG) has been announced. I...
Global: Married in New York
2011-08-11, Issue 544
Blogger Scarlett Lion spent a weekend snapping photos of the same sex weddings that took place recently with the passing of New York’s Marriage Equality Act, an experience she describes as 'amazing'. You can view the pictures on her blog....
South Africa: A gay Congolese man in South Africa
2011-08-10, Issue 544
In this article, a Congolese volunteer with People Against Suffering Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP) describes what it is like to live in South Africa. 'Life is tough here. Firstly, there is a lot of homophobia in the Congolese community in South Afr...
Cameroon: Air France refuses to fly failed gay asylum seeker
2011-08-10, Issue 544
Joseph Kaute, the 43-year-old gay Cameroonian who was due to be deported from the UK, is back at Harmondsworth detention centre, thanks to Air France, the airline that was due to fly him from Heathrow back to Yaoundé via Paris. It was the third attem...
Uganda: Amid uncertainty Freedom and Roam Uganda launches campaign
2011-08-03, Issue 543
While members of Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) are shaken by a break in and robbery at their offices, FARUG director Kasha Jacqueline says a 'Hate No More Campaign' will go forward as planned. The campaign launches on 10 August before the possible ...
Zimbabwe: Gay activists angry over rape reports
2011-08-03, Issue 543
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) says that it is outraged by the way that the country's media has targeted homosexuality in its reporting on the case of a police officer accused of sodomising his brother’s ten-year-old son. 'There has been a tren...
Ghana: Mills backtracks on homosexuality statements
2011-07-20, Issue 540
Ghana's President John Evans Atta Mills has chastised the media for reporting that he 'would institute measures to check the menace of homosexuality and lesbianism'. He allegedly made the statement at the Sunyani Central Ebenezer Presbyterian Church....
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