Not trans enough? “I’m trans because its the inner sense of who I am!

April 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment

From LGBTSr an interview with Ugandan LGBTI activist and human rights defender Victor Mukasa   Victor has pursued the cause of human rights with tremendous dedication in Africa and globally. He is a founding member of several Ugandan and regional human rights groups, including Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (EHAHRDN) [...]

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, Human Rights, Queer Politics, Transgender, Uganda Tagged With: , ,

Haiti: Caracol, Cholera and Dignity

April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Evel Fanfan is a Haitian human rights lawyer and activist.  He is the co-founder of AUMOHD [Action des Unités Motivées pour une Haiti de Droits) or Action for Human Rights in Haiti founded in 2002.   Despite constant intimidation of Fanfan he continues to speak out against the worker exploitation and human rights abuses of [...]

Filed Under: #IRP13, Caribbean, Haiti, Health, Human Rights, Water, Land Grab Tagged With: , , , , , ,

The Week on Sunday (weekly)

March 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Ayiti Kale Je – Haiti Grassroots Watch – Haïti Veedor – English The workers’ comments were backed up by a recent report from “Better Work,” an agency of the UN’s International Labor Organization, which found that half of the 22 assembly factories in the capital region were “in non-compliance” as far as working conditions were [...]

Filed Under: #IRP13, African Feminism, Gender Violence, Haiti, Human Rights, IWD, RIP, Social Justice Links Tagged With: , ,

In Honor of Childhood-less Children/Adults.

February 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

My most visceral thoughts are right now with all the children who have been robbed of their childhoods by war and conflict. Oftentimes war and conflict can be in the home, in the family. Sometimes it is literally in war trenches. It is the time to speak out for the protection of the African child’s childhood where the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other documents such as the African Charter on the Rights and Responsibilities, fall short. Heaven, bless the child to speak and be heard. Heaven, protect the child.

Filed Under: 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, Conflict Mining/Resources, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Social Justice Links Tagged With: , ,

#16Days: AWID Condemns Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill

December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) strongly condemns the repeated efforts, now for the third time, to introduce the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda’s Parliament. We stand in solidarity with Ugandans who are calling for their government to withdraw this bill, once and for all, and respect the human rights of everyone. The latest [...]

Filed Under: 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, Africa LGBTI, African Feminism, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, sexual violence, Uganda, violence against women Tagged With: ,

My Zimbabwean Sheroes: Jestina Mukoko

October 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I believe everyone has at some point watched a movie in which all your muscles are bundled up in tension. You are not sure which way the pendulum is going to swing, will the hero/heroine escape unscathed or will he/she die. When I watched Troy, I had the same feeling. In fact right at the [...]

Filed Under: African Feminism, Elections, Feminism, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Zimbabwe Tagged With: , , ,
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