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Uganda: Activists Welcome Ugandan President Calling for Review of Anti-Gay Bill
VOA, 21 April 2023
Human rights activists welcome the move by President Yoweri Museveni to return a draft of the anti-homosexuality bill to parliament for review, saying it provides them with more… Read more »
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Uganda: Ruling Party Caucus Returns Anti-Gay Bill to Parliament
Nile Post, 20 April 2023
The ruling NRM party caucus has referred the Anti-Homosexuality bill passed last month back to parliament for improvement. Read more »
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Uganda: UN Experts Condemn Egregious Anti-LGBT Legislation
IPS, 29 March 2023
A group of UN experts* on human rights has blasted the Government of Uganda for making homosexuality punishable by death. Read more »
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Africa: Will Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill Resonate Across Africa?
VOA, 23 March 2023
Human rights activists say Uganda's passage of an anti-homosexuality bill could be the impetus for similar far-reaching legislation across Africa as anti-gay sentiments grow. Read more »
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Uganda: UN, Amnesty Join Calls for Museveni to Reject Anti-Gay Legislation
RFI, 22 March 2023
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni faced calls on Wednesday from the United Nations and rights groups to reject an "appalling" anti-gay bill passed by parliament. Ugandan lawmakers… Read more »
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East Africa: East Africa's LGBTQ Community Under Siege
DW, 21 March 2023
In East African countries, people with diverse sexual orientations live in constant fear. Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is on the rise in in the region as lawmakers in Uganda vote to pass… Read more »
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Namibia: Supreme Court Rules Against Same-Sex Couple in Citizenship Case
VOA, 21 March 2023
Gay rights activists in Namibia are decrying a Supreme Court decision that will effectively deny citizenship to a child born through surrogacy to a same-sex couple in South Africa.… Read more »
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Namibia: Supreme Court Revokes Surrogate Child Citizenship
New Era, 22 March 2023
Five judges of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Windhoek High Court was wrong when it ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration to grant citizenship to the… Read more »
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Uganda: Unpacking the Geopolitics of Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill
African Arguments, 10 March 2023
As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni's authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. Read more »
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Kenya: Courts Uphold Gay Rights, But Struggle Continues
Legalbrief, 8 March 2023
The decision by Kenya's Supreme Court, that the country's NGO co-ordination board must register an organisation with the words 'gay' and 'lesbian' in the name, has unleashed a… Read more »
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Kenya: Supreme Court Ruling On LGBTQI+ Lobby 'Will Lead to Unintended Consequences'
Capital FM, 27 February 2023
National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has poked holes on the Supreme Court judgment that granted the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community the rights… Read more »
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Africa: Everyone Has a Role to Play in Ending Abuse Against LGBTQI+ Africans
allAfrica, 30 May 2022
In April 2022, the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) and the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS, and Gender (CSA&G) at the University of Pretoria together with the Center for Gender… Read more »
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Namibia: Face to Face With the LGBTQIA+ Activists of Namibia
New Frame, 17 September 2021
The personal stakes are high for the activists - some willing, others reluctant - behind the historic reckoning for LGBTQIA+ rights in the country. Read more »
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Namibia: Where We Belong - Inside the Reckoning for Queer Rights in Namibia
African Arguments, 5 August 2021
Meet some of the activists fighting to live and love in Namibia. Read more »