Tag Archives: LGBTQI

Acts targeting LGBTQI Ugandans increased since Anti-Homosexuality Act became law Edward Mwebaza, executive director of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), addresses the media. (Photo courtesy of HRAPF) A new report by the Uganda-based Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) indicates that there was a surge in violence and rights violations against Uganda‘s LGBTQ community in January. A total …

Advocates say the ruling threatens all freedom of speech and assembly in Uganda East Africa Visual Artists used this illustration of Ugandan police breaking up a Pride celebration to illustrate its article about latest court ruling declaring an LGBTQ advocacy workshop illegal. Uganda’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal challenging the 2012 closure of an LGBTQ advocacy workshop organized …

Anti-Homosexuality Act has created human rights crisis in Uganda Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , who signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act into law in May 2023. (Photo courtesy of the BBC) Ugandan organisations advocating for LGBTQI+ rights recently spoke out in unison on Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, against the growing restrictions on fundamental human rights, the systematic targeting of human rights …

Alphonse Mihigo Ombeni, director and founder of the Congolese LGBTQI+ advocacy organization Action for the Fight Against Social Injustice (ALCIS), was once again the victim of a violent attack in Bukavu after speaking publicly about LGBTQI+ rights. Ombeni was leaving FAN FM radio station on the evening of October 21 when he was assaulted and robbed near the Bukavu Pedagogical …