The report further reveals that local council authorities were reported to be high violators of the rights of key populations accounting for a whopping 47.6% of the documented cases. The Uganda Prisons and Uganda Police came second and third as the highest abusers of the rights of key populations in Uganda as per the officially recoded cases.
Kuchu Times Editor
To mark the annual Kuchu Memorial Day on Tuesday 26th January 2021, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) hosted a dialogue meeting with several local council authorities and LGBT+ activists from various organizations in and around Kampala. The event was in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the murder of celebrated LGBTIQ activist David Kato Kisule.
David Kato was a leader whose close associates describe as fearless and daring. To mark the 10th anniversary of his passing, we spoke to some of the people he worked with to shed light on who David was as a man, what was at the heart of his activism and what his vision for the entire movement was.
Kaleidoscope Trust is a founding member and host to the Secretariat of The Commonwealth Equality Network (TCEN), the first civil society network to sustainably advocate on behalf of LGBT+ people in the Commonwealth that is now seeking five research consultants to deliver a body of research.
We were unable to reach our patients since we had transferred most of our work online due to the covid pandemic. Many of our patients are already dealing with mental illnesses and it is fundamental that they keep in touch with their therapists. However, this was impossible during this time and we are now seeing a rise in depression and anxiety cases.
Beverley Palesa Ditsie, was last week awarded the Safe Space Community Icon Award 2020. This award recognizes individuals from the LGBTQI+ community that have made an outstanding contribution to the LGBTQI+ community.
Taboom Media, a global media development and monitoring group, invites you to apply for a spot in our upcoming week-long Media Advocacy for LGBTQI+ Equality workshop. This free and interactive course aims to help civil society organisations from across Sub-Saharan Africa create and implement media advocacy strategies and campaigns that advance LGBTQI+ equality.
The 16 Days of Activism against gender based violence, is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The campaign runs from 25th November to 10th December which is the Human Rights day.
The TREE Project is an initiative where we are tackling some of the underlying root causes wide spread self-stigma, limited access to employment, business development and financial literacy knowledge and the lack of organized groupings among the trans population.