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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Human Rights</title>
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		<title>David Kato : February 13, 1964 – January 26, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Kato was bludgeoned to death on January 26th 2011 in his home in Kampala Uganda. He was an out gay Ugandan LGBTI activist and human rights defender and security officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda [SMUG]. I knew him personally for just over one short but intense year and in that time I came to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Saro-Wiwa on how it was, how it remains &amp; how it could be</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/ken-saro-wiwa-on-how-it-was-and-how-it-remains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chevron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil Cabal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KSW reminds us of a struggle Nigerians have largely ignored or at best dismissed. The Nigerian media [pre social media] has to take major responsibility for the lack of information and analysis no doubt bullied as usual by military and pseudo military governments including Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s. He reminds us of our right to stand up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See, The Nigerian Revolution Has Begun</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/see-the-nigerian-revolution-has-begun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/see-the-nigerian-revolution-has-begun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You tell me that if I speak I will not be heard. No. I will speak and I will be heard. I am not a writer only by talent. I am a writer because I want to be a witness, a real witness. You recall Edward Said, “There was something wrong with how I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the real Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill stand up</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/will-the-real-same-sex-marriage-prohibition-bill-stand-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/will-the-real-same-sex-marriage-prohibition-bill-stand-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Same Sex Marriage Bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since the passing of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill 2011 [SSMB] by the Nigerian Senate hundreds of online and twitter comments have been made supporting the Bill. By far the majority of these comments have defended the Bill on the basis that it only concerns marriage between two people identifying as the same sex; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When  will we learn?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/when-will-we-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dirty politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexual minority rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Disclaimer* [This article does not mean in any way to trivialise the struggle by sexual minorities for their rights, neither does it seek to force the writers’ own views on sexual minority rights on the reader. Rather it is a call on a nation blinded by intolerance and hate to see how political leaders are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troy Davis: 14 Days in May &#8211; The execution of Edward Earl Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/09/troy-davis-14-days-in-may-the-execution-of-edward-earl-johnson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/09/troy-davis-14-days-in-may-the-execution-of-edward-earl-johnson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action Alert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the third time I watched this documentary on the last 14 days in the life of Edward Earl Johnson who was executed in Mississippi’s gas chamber on May 20, 1987. This is a horrific act of cruel and inhumane punishment that has everything to do with vengeance and little to do with justice. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Qwelane guilty of hate speech</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/05/jon-qwelane-guilty-of-hate-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/05/jon-qwelane-guilty-of-hate-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Qwelane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jon Qwelane who published the article “Call me names but gay is NOT OK” in the South African Sunday Sun in July 2008 has been convicted of hate speech by the Johannesburg Equality Court. The article by Jon Qwelane – which includes a despicable cartoon equating same sex relationships with bestiality, calls for a rewriting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uganda uses Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a political diversion</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/05/uganda-uses-anti-homosexuality-bill-as-a-political-diversion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/05/uganda-uses-anti-homosexuality-bill-as-a-political-diversion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 13:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HIV AIDS Bill Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Walk to Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Anti-Homosexuality Bill could be passed in the next 24 hours. After two years of off and on the AHB will be presented at tomorrows parliamentary session. For the past three weeks Uganda has been in the midst of it&#8217;s own uprising against the Museveni government &#8211; the peaceful &#8220;Walk to Work&#8221; protests against rising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugandan LGBTI win court case over Rolling Stone</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/01/ugandan-lgbti-win-court-case-over-rolling-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/01/ugandan-lgbti-win-court-case-over-rolling-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rolling Stone Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda LGBTI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The High Court of Uganda ruled that the Rolling Stone had violated the constitutional rights to privacy and safety and has awarded the three plaintiffs damages of £400 each plus a warning to the magazine not to repeat the outings. This is fantastic news and a tremendous win for LGBTI people in Uganda. Congratulations to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Commission blocks LBGTI human rights</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/11/african-commission-blocks-lbgti-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/11/african-commission-blocks-lbgti-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Commission on Peoples & Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition of African Lesbians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pambazuka News has a special issue on the African Commission for Peoples and Human Rights which recently denied &#8220;Observer Status&#8221; to the Coalition of African Lesbians. The day the African Commission disavowed humanity Fikile Vilakazi and Sibongile Ndashe The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) says it is ‘extremely angered’ that their application for observer status [...]]]></description>
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