Ugandan LGBTI refugees from Kakuma camp and parts of Nairobi Kenya protested outside the UNHCR offices in the Nairobi capital of Kenya on Wednesday the 11th of March and delivered a set of demands.The protest turned rowdy when UNHCR staff called police who dispersed the refugees.
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As I sit alone at the shore of Lake Victoria, sipping a warm frothy and spicy glass of
Gilbeys, I touch my belly and think of my trials as a transman. Another one of my partner
is pregnant. I do not know the man whose seed she is carrying. Her womb is our womb;
yet she carries the seed of a man I know not.
Uganda has made significant strides in the struggle to respect, promote and protect women’s rights. This is especially evident in its legal framework, which is all encompassing and gender neutral. However although the laws recognise the need to protect women’s rights, their implementation breeds a different result. Many laws that appear gender neutral on the books are actually implemented discriminatively against the women. This is as a result of failure for the legislature to address the embedded, institutionalised and structural gender inequalities that have been caused by decades of gender discrimination and marginalisation.
This is my story, a personal inspiration, don’t judge me for it isn’t my fault, neither is it the fault of my parents but the fault of nature. The commands of nature dictated, “Let there be love and there I appeared.”
When the world starts asking if am straight or bent like we need a ruler to measure this, I wonder if someone has looked at my brains to confirm this. I am of full potential, responsible, kind and gentle with life. I don’t harm or hurt, neither do I irritate. I am just diversified. Not falling under the normal distribution curve does make me an outcast in the population. I conform to the laws of nature. That’s why I live naturally and I pass on my genes. My being Transgender has not in any way jeopardized God’s work. Yes God doesn’t make mistakes. That’s why he asks you not to just tolerate me but to accept me. If he hasn’t killed me for being a transgender, then who gives you the moral authority to put a nail on my head? The world can’t complain about how I have sex, who I have it with. As if sex is what defines humanity values.
The team of lawyers; Prof. Ogenga Latigo, Andrew Mwenda, Nicholas Opio, to mention but a few whose efforts led to the nullification of the Anti-Gay Bill; at a point when the evil church is preaching against is me, the culture is repelling me, family disowning me and politics playing their dirty game on me. Who would I want to call my God other than these guys? Correct me if am wrong! If is true God lives among us, then these are the guys who live among us as God. I am proudly Catholic and not an atheist. I see God in these people! I am proud of the founding members of the outstanding organizations that have shielded the gay community from the ultraviolet light. It took them courage, enthusiasm, commitment and sacrifice to fight for a cause whose end is hard to define!
Three of us squeezed tight on a motorbike tearing through the hectic noontime traffic in Kampala. The boda-boda driver wore no helmet but weaved around the cars as if he did. I sat in the back, fingers clenched, clutching the tail of the bike and hoping not to fall off. The man between the driver and me was in constant steady conversation with him. He wanted to know if we were safe.Not safe in the sense of crashing into oncoming traffic, but safe as in whether this was a neighborhood that threatened LGBT Ugandans. Ronald does this everywhere he goes. Ronald (not his real name) is a LGBT activist in Uganda, one of the world’s most antigay nations. He is also an editor on the team that recently put out the country’s first LGBT magazine.
by Dismus Aine Kevin Executive Director Rainbow Health Foundation – Mbarara It’s almost 2 months since the nine young gay men were released on police bond after being held in police custody for five days in western Uganda. Following the visit of medical team from a hospital’s STI clinic that carried out a screening, testing […]
On 17th February 2015, the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) dismissed the applications filed by East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative (UHAI EASHRI) and the Health Development Initiative- Rwanda (HDI) to join the reference filed by Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) on behalf of the Coalition challenging sections of the nullified […]
A Report launched on February 27th, 2015 in Kampala – Uganda by Chapter Four Uganda, a Ugandan Civil Liberties Organisation working to protect civil liberties & promoting Human Rights for all.
This report highlights cases of intrusive non-consensual and inhumane anal examinations, in-cell abuse of sexual minorities, media parading of victims in the face of increased risks in the society, use of criminal charges for extortions and blackmail and other grave violations.