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Added on: 05/18/2024

LGBTQ Ugandans flee because of harsh anti-gay law at home

05/17/2024

Fearing imprisonment and abuse in their homeland, some queer Ugandans have fled to neighboring Kenya where they hope to live in safety. It’s been a year since…

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Added on: 05/12/2024

Out in the World: Bay Area fundraiser for LGBTQ refugee group ORAM features gay Ugandan

05/11/2024

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration had a homecoming in the San Francisco Bay Area in an effort to drum up support and talk about its…

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Added on: 05/11/2024

No happy ending for exiled Ugandans a year after gay crackdown

05/10/2024

A year after Uganda enacted one of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws, many LGBTQ+ exiles are struggling to start over, facing a host of new hurdles alongside…

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Added on: 05/04/2024

How Queer Ugandans are Faring a Year After the Harsh Anti-LGBTQ Law Passed

05/03/2024

“We’re all illegal now,” read a text to Musana (who is using an alias for protection) sent by one of her friends in May 2023, after Ugandan…

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Added on: 05/02/2024

Threats, accusations and assault: the dangers of running an LGBTQ+ health clinic in Uganda

05/01/2024

Driving to work one morning last summer, Brian Aliganyira was forced off the road and into a ditch by motorcycle riders surrounding his car on both sides….

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Added on: 05/01/2024

MONEY UNLOCKS THREATS: UGANDAN LGBTQ PEOPLE AT RISK

Annie Clark

Alturi Contributor

In 2013, Uganda passed one of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world. Under the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which took effect in February 2014, conduct between same-sex individuals…

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Added on: 05/01/2024

Britain sanctions three Ugandan officials under anti-corruption laws

04/30/2024

Britain sanctioned the speaker of the Ugandan parliament, Anita Among, and two high profile Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday, targeting corruption in the east African country for the…

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Added on: 04/27/2024

Ghana and Uganda echo each other’s clamp down on gay people

04/26/2024

Ghana, despite its more solid reputation for democracy and respect for human rights than authoritarian Uganda, is joining it in more stringently criminalising homosexuality – and vacillating…

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Added on: 04/18/2024

Out in the World: Anti-LGBTQ bills, laws are spreading around the world

04/17/2024

Anti-LGBTQ bills and new laws are spreading around the world, including in several African nations and the former Soviet republic of Belarus. The proposed or approved legislation in…

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Added on: 04/17/2024

Uganda: Activists Appeal Shock Anti-Homosexuality Law Ruling

04/16/2024

Twenty-two individuals have filed an appeal with Uganda’s Supreme Court against the Constitutional Court’s recent refusal to strike down the country’s vile Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA). The Supreme…

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Added on: 04/07/2024

U.S. Supreme Court laid foundation for Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ ruling

04/06/2024

The Ugandan court that endorsed the nation’s 2023 “Kill the Gays” law drew inspiration from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning its previous Roe v. Wade…

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Added on: 04/06/2024

A Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist was stabbed and left for dead in the street. Now, he recounts his escape to Canada

04/05/2024

The scar on Steven Kabuye’s right arm runs over a foot long. At the base of his torso, a small puncture wound marks where a knife almost…

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Added on: 04/06/2024

Uganda cited Dobbs to back an anti-LGBTQ crackdown. Americans should be worried too.

04/05/2024

The ripple effects of Dobbs continue to emerge in unexpected places — and to threaten other civil liberties. Yesterday, Uganda’s constitutional court, the country’s second-highest judicial body,…

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Added on: 04/05/2024

Gay rights activists call for more international pressure on Uganda over anti-gay law

04/04/2024

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the…

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Added on: 04/04/2024

Uganda’s Constitutional Court rejects petition against anti-gay law

04/03/2024

Uganda’s Constitutional Court has rejected a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned internationally as one of the toughest in the world. The court…

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Added on: 04/03/2024

Ugandan court to issue verdict in petition against tough anti-gay law

04/02/2024

Uganda’s constitutional court is due on Wednesday to deliver a verdict on a petition seeking to annul the country’s tough Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), a lawyer for the…

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Added on: 03/29/2024

Ugandan LGBT rights group caught between a rock and a hard place

03/28/2024

Last week, in another blow to freedoms of association and expression in Uganda, a Ugandan court rejected a petition brought by Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a leading group advocating for the rights of…

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Added on: 03/28/2024

Uganda’s anti-LGBTQI+ speaker at the center of a corruption scandal

03/27/2024

In what looks like a deliberate bid to redirect intense public scrutiny away from grave allegations implicating her in a seemingly multibillion-shilling corruption scandal, Uganda Parliament speaker…

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Added on: 03/28/2024

National Security Council meets with Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist

03/27/2024

WASHINGTON | The U.S. National Security Council met with Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist Frank Mugisha on Monday, according to a spokesperson who reaffirmed America’s opposition to civil…

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Added on: 03/23/2024

Another US homophobe appears in Uganda to support anti-LGBTQ agenda

03/22/2024

American homophobe and extremist Ayo Kimathi is in Uganda to promote hate against the LGBTQI+ community in support of the Anti- Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023. Kimathi touched…

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Added on: 03/22/2024

Ugandan Appeals Court Shutters LGBT Rights Group

03/21/2024

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Added on: 03/14/2024

Ugandan court backs government’s refusal to register LGBT organisation

03/13/2024

KAMPALA, March 12 (Reuters) – A Ugandan court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by an LGBT advocacy group seeking to compel the government to register it, a…

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Added on: 03/13/2024

Uganda Court Rejects LGBTQ Group Registration Appeal

03/12/2024

A Ugandan court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal by a gay rights group seeking government registration, ruling that it aimed to promote “unlawful” activities. The Court of…

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Added on: 03/10/2024

U.S. expands crackdown on Ugandan homophobes seeking visas

03/09/2024

The United States has expanded the number of Ugandan officials who are denied visas because of their anti-LGBTQ stance. The Guardian reported: US denies visa to Ugandan…

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Added on: 03/07/2024

US denies visa to Ugandan MP who called for homosexual castration

03/06/2024

The Ugandan MP Sarah Achieng Opendi, who called for homosexuals to be castrated during a parliamentary debate on the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws has been denied a visa to attend…

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Added on: 03/03/2024

Cape Town Gay Pride Shows Solidarity With Africa’s Persecuted

03/02/2024

Led by motorcycle riders draped in rainbow colours and dressed in multicolour costumes, more than 3,000 people on Saturday took part in Cape Town’s annual Gay Pride…

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Added on: 02/25/2024

Uganda squirms as pressure mounts to repeal anti-gay law

02/24/2024

As human rights defenders inside and outside of Uganda await a Constitutional Court ruling on petitions challenging the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023, the backers of the cruel…

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Added on: 02/24/2024

Protest targets Ugandan plan to praise anti-LGBT law in England

02/23/2024

Human rights activists based in and outside Uganda have petitioned the government of the United Kingdom, urging it to cancel an invitation to Anita Among, Speaker of…

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Added on: 02/09/2024

For LGBT asylum-seekers, coming to the U.S. is hardly the end of a harrowing journey

02/08/2024

Located in the suburbs of Tijuana, Mexico, the Casa Arco Iris migrant shelter is unassuming. That’s on purpose. Not so long ago, its exterior was graffitied with a homophobic slur….

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Added on: 02/04/2024

What you need to know about appeal against Uganda anti-LGBTQ+ law

02/02/2024

Rights groups expect Uganda’s Constitutional Court to issue a verdict imminently on an appeal against the strict anti-LGBTQ+ law the country passed last year that imposed the…