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Uganda: U.S. Company Paid Millions to Clean Image After Anti-Gay Bill
Observer, 23 March 2015
A supplementary request of Shs 614m by the ministry of Foreign Affairs to pay Scribe Strategies and Advisors, a US public relations company that sanitized Uganda's international… Read more »
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Uganda: Activists Fight Homophobia With New Magazine
DW, 19 February 2015
Sexual minorities in Uganda face hate and predujice at every turn. Though homosexuality is already outlawed, the government is planning even tougher legislation. LGBTI activists… Read more »
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Uganda: Anti-Gay Law - Gone, but Not Forgotten
RNW Africa, 27 October 2014
On August 1, Uganda's Supreme Court struck down the anti-homosexuality law on a technicality. The decision provided some much needed relief to the embattled LGTB-community. But the… Read more »
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Uganda: Hon. Nabilah Naggayi Sempala on Gay Rights and the Aha
Independent (Kampala), 25 September 2014
As a representative of a growing, multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-ideological constituency, I have a task of harmonizing a diverse constituent group. As a… Read more »
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Uganda: Idle MPs Seeking to Return Gay Law Are Out of Order
Observer, 7 August 2014
Just days after annulment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) by Uganda's Constitutional court, because Parliament ignored the procedural call on quorum by Prime Minister Amama… Read more »
Has Uganda Paid to Clean Image After Anti-Gay Law?
The ministry of foreign affairs has requested to pay a U.S.-based public relations company for cleaning the country's international image tarnished by the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act in 2014.
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The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda has been forced to lay off all staff after withdrawal of a grant worth billions of shillings by an American agency. Read more »
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President Yoweri Museveni has reportedly been denied reservations at two hotels in the United States over his government's anti-homosexuality stance. Read more »
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Several legislators have pushed to reintroduce the anti-gay law after a court ruling overturned the original law passed in February 2014. Read more »
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According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, more than 100 Ugandans are seeking refuge in Kenya to escape extreme homophobia in their country. Read more »
