Uganda

Global News

Added on: 04/08/2020

The Uganda 19: Lawyers barred; no chance of bail; 10 days in prison and counting

04/07/2020

Lawyers for 19 LGBT Ugandans arrested March 29 at an LGBT homeless shelter near Kampala still have been barred from seeing their clients. The arrestees are imprisoned…

Global News

Added on: 04/06/2020

New Ugandan rules allow HIV care during lockdown

04/05/2020

Uganda’s Ministry of Health has issued guidelines about how vital HIV/AIDS services can continue with minimal disruption during the current 14-day countrywide Covid-19 lockdown. The guidelines, covering…

Global News

Added on: 04/02/2020

Ugandan police accused of abusing lockdown laws after LGBT arrests

04/01/2020

Police in Uganda have charged 20 LGBT people with disobeying rules on physical distancing and risking the spread of coronavirus, in what campaigners say is a clear…

Global News

Added on: 03/31/2020

Ugandan fear of Covid-19 leads to 23 arrests at LGBT shelter

03/30/2020

Uganda police charged the 23 LGBT Ugandans with disobeying a presidential directive against large meetings, aimed at curbing the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19. The…

Global News

Added on: 03/10/2020

Africa’s policies hold key to LGBT rights on the continent: here’s how

03/09/2020

Questions of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression have continued to divide opinion across the globe. This is primarily driven by legal, cultural and religious beliefs…

Global News

Added on: 03/05/2020

Funds running out, Kenya LGBT refugee program seeks help

03/04/2020

LGBT refugees in Nairobi, Kenya might soon find themselves homeless and without any source of income as funding for housing and other programs is rapidly drying up….

Global News

Added on: 02/19/2020

African countries must scrap outdated laws and fully legalise same-sex relations

02/18/2020

Sixty-eight countries around the world continue to criminalise same-sex relations. Almost half of them are based in Africa, comprising more than half the continent. These laws are…

Global News

Added on: 12/28/2019

Why Homosexuality Is Not Un-African

12/27/2019

Let’s finally settle it. Homosexuality is just as African as heterosexuality. Yesterday, we shared with you news of J Hus and his online blunder. The rapper tweeted…

Global News

Added on: 12/21/2019

Anti-gay laws in 2019: You win some, you lose some

12/20/2019

2019 has been a mixed year for opponents of the anti-gay laws that still oppress LGBTQ people in dozens of countries worldwide. During 2019, millions fewer people…

Global News

Added on: 12/08/2019

Uganda Renews Clampdown on the LGBT Community

12/04/2019

On November 11, police in Uganda arrested 125 members of the LGBT community. The Kampala police assert that the Ram Bar, which is frequented by the LGBT…

Global News

Added on: 11/25/2019

Uganda bans thousands of charities in crackdown

11/22/2019

Uganda’s government has told more than 12,000 charities that they can no longer operate in the country. Following a review that took place in August and September,…

Global News

Added on: 11/18/2019

Uganda: Stop Police Harassment of LGBT People

11/17/2019

The Ugandan authorities should drop charges against dozens of people arrested over the last month in Kampala, the capital, on the basis of their presumed sexual orientation…

Global News

Added on: 11/13/2019

Uganda charges 67 after raid on gay bar

11/12/2019

A Ugandan court charged 67 people with causing a nuisance on Tuesday after they were arrested in a gay-friendly bar, in a move condemned by activists as…

Global News

Added on: 11/12/2019

Uganda Police Confirm Arrest of 120 LGBT People

11/11/2019

Ugandan police said Monday that in an operation around Kampala’s city center, they arrested 120 people suspected to have been using narcotics. However, members of the LGBT…

Global News

Added on: 11/03/2019

African HIV experts are calling on Uganda to legalise homosexuality

11/02/2019

Four leading African HIV experts are calling on the government in Uganda to decriminalise homosexuality in order to tackle the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. Serge Paul Eholié from…

Global News

Added on: 10/28/2019

Uganda moves to allay fears over anti-gay sex law

10/25/2019

Uganda has sought to reassure sexual minorities that they are safe, saying it has no plans to introduce the death penalty for gay sex after reports of…

Global News

Added on: 10/28/2019

Uganda arrested 16 LGBTQ activists. Here’s where else gay rights are a battleground in the world.

10/26/2019

This week Ugandan police arrested 16 LGBTQ activists on charges of gay sex — which is punishable by life imprisonment. Police arrested them at the sexual health…

Global News

Added on: 10/25/2019

Uganda arrests 16 LGBT activists on suspicion of gay sex

10/24/2019

Uganda has said it has arrested 16 LGBT activists on suspicion of gay sex, which is punishable with life imprisonment, in what fellow activists called an escalating…

Global News

Added on: 10/24/2019

Anti-homosexuality Bill poses severe threat to human rights

10/24/2019

Uganda is facing a serious threat to human rights and the HIV response with the announcement of plans to introduce legislation that will impose the death penalty…

Global News

Added on: 10/21/2019

‘They paid a guy to kill me’: health workers fight homophobia in Uganda

10/21/2019

Maria Nantale is enjoying a beer at a rickety wooden bar after a long day’s work. “Forty people tested today,” she reflects. “Found three positives. One of…

Global News

Added on: 10/19/2019

Coming Out in Uganda Was a Death Sentence. The U.S. Border Was a Trap.

10/18/2019

Margaret didn’t know what was going to happen when she approached the bridge between Juárez and El Paso, but she knew she couldn’t wait anymore. Six months…

Global News

Added on: 10/17/2019

Amid ‘Kill the Gays’ bill uproar, Ugandan LGBTQ activist is killed

10/16/2019

Ugandan LGBTQ activist Brian Wasswa died on Oct. 5, one day after the 28-year-old was attacked at home amid rising tensions in the east African nation over…

Global News

Added on: 10/16/2019

Ugandan MPs press for death penalty for homosexual acts

10/15/2019

MPs in Uganda are to push for new laws to make homosexual acts punishable by death. James Nsaba Buturo, an MP, said parliamentarians wanted to retable a…

Global News

Added on: 10/15/2019

Uganda: Brutal Killing of Gay Activist

10/15/2019

Ugandan authorities should thoroughly investigate the fatal attack on October 4, 2019 on an activist for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, Human…

Global News

Added on: 10/14/2019

Uganda government denies report of re-introduction of anti-gay bill

10/13/2019

The government of Ugandan has denied reports that there are plans to re-introduce the anti-gay bill to parliament after a court ruling prohibiting it. According to the…

Global News

Added on: 10/13/2019

Activists defiant as Uganda proposes death penalty for gay sex

10/12/2019

The Ugandan government’s plan to reintroduce a bill that could impose the death penalty for homosexuality is being met with defiance from the LGBTQ community in the…

Global News

Added on: 10/12/2019

International donors ‘stand with’ LGBT+ Ugandans over ‘Kill the Gays’ bill

10/11/2019

Major donors of aid to Uganda including the United States and the European Union said on Friday they were closely examining a plan by the east African…

Global News

Added on: 10/08/2019

Uganda: Why government is reintroducing anti-gay law

10/03/2019

At the end of August, the Ethics and Integrity minster, Fr Simon Lokodo, said his predecessor, Mr James Nsaba Buturo, would take leave of Parliament to reintroduce…

Global News

Added on: 08/14/2019

Fear: If unchained, faith-based bias would crush LGBT medical care

08/13/2019

Gay Africans barred from medical care. A rise in HIV infections in homophobic countries. Reduced access to health care for LGBTI people both in the United States…

Global News

Added on: 07/05/2019

UK ordered to return lesbian after wrongly deporting her back to Uganda

07/02/2019

The UK is ordered to return a gay woman after wrongly deporting her to Uganda. The 25-year-old, who was deported five years ago, was told she could…