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HRAPF: LEGAL ANAYSIS OF RECENTLY PASSED SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL
Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) has released a comprehensive analysis of the recently passed Sexual Offences Bill with special focus on how it affects the now criminalized minorities.
UGANDAN PARLIAMENT PASSES SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL, CRIMINALISES SEX WORK AND SAME SEX RELATIONS
The Parliament of Uganda on 4th May 2021 passed the Sexual Offences Bill 2019, which bans sex work and same sex relation, thereby reintroducing the criminalisation of homosexuality in Uganda.
REMEMBERING CRITON: A BEAUTIFUL SOUL LOST TO HOMOPHOBIA
Like many young LGBTIQ identifying Ugandans, Criton fled his homeland for Nairobi after suffering discrimination and harassment from his community and loved ones. The father of one hoped to create a better life for himself and never dreamt that this pursuit of happiness and acceptance would only lead to his demise.
LET’S WALK UGANDA AWARDED FOR HEALTHCARE APP AT INNOVATION EVENT
The KuchuCare App will provide accessible and friendly health care services specifically tailored for LGBTQ people in just one click in the palm of their hands. Among this will be the ability to find a friendly health facility near you, the ability to find deliverable safe sex consumables and emergency medication as well as the ability to talk to a friendly doctor, counsellor or peer of your choice for health information and psycho-social support.
IBU CONTINUES TO CHAMPION DATA MANAGEMENT AND DIGITALIZATION
“As Key Populations, we have collected data but we don’t own it. We want to make sure that each and every stone has been turned as we come together to figure out ways in which we can achieve ownership of the data we collect, put out there and share….,”Brant Luswata shared.
UGANDA’S LGBTIQ COMMUNITY RESPONDS TO ACCUSATIONS OF SUPPORTING POLITICAL SUBVERSION
We do not as a group entity, support any one political party. In fact, individual LGBTIQ+ persons will be differently affiliated to a political party or ideology of their choice as is Constitutionally allowed and provided. The service organizations that support our wellbeing are also equally non-partisan, recognizing that our only mandate is to serve our members and clients with the services that they need.
LOCKDOWN, ELECTIONS AND GBV: FARUG TAKES ON MANTLE TO HELP LBQ WOMEN RECOVER
Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) hosted her first social Friday of the year with a dialogue focused on the impacts that the Covid19 lockdown and recently concluded general election have had on queer women.
STATE ACTORS HIGHEST PERPETRATORS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST KPs- HRAPF REPORT
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 MEMORIAL DAY #DKK10: SMUG ENGAGES LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN DIALOGUE
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.