August 2019

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LIVE ON PURPOSE MINISTRIES REASSURES LGBTQ+ UGANDANS OF GOD’S LOVE

LOP church is an all-inclusive reaffirming California based church that was founded in 2016. LOP’s visit to COSF was intended to inspire and restore faith in God’s love among members of Uganda’s LGBT+ community who have been marginalized, stigmatized and discriminated from places of worship through scriptural violence based on their sexual orientation or gender identity/ expression.

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FARUG HOLDS DIALOGUE ON SGBV AND IMPACTS OF THE SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL ON LBQ WOMEN

“Discrimination is present because there is usually no law to stop it. And the purpose of discrimination is to nullify and impair but advocacy is how vulnerable groups can have their issues heard, advocated for and safeguarded like everyone else. This is how our needs and issues are considered or addressed like anyone else’s and ensure that laws are implemented,”

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AFA OFFERS DIGITAL LITERACY AND SECURITY TRAINING TO REFUGEE HRDs

Access For All (AFA) recently held a digital literacy and security training #AFADST2019 for refugee human rights defenders within the East African region. With support from The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), the two- day event targeted activists from different community based organizations in Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan and Eritrea.