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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Human Rights</title>
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		<title>Dogo Nahawa resident&#8217;s testimony on Jos violence</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dogo-nahawa-residents-testimony-on-jos-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dogo-nahawa-residents-testimony-on-jos-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jos massacre]]></category>
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A resident of Dogo Nahawa described to Human Rights Watch what happened:
Dogo is a farming village several kilometers from Jos. They came at around 3 a.m. to attack our village. When they arrived, they immediately started shooting, so many of us ran outside to see what happened. Then others attacked us with machetes, killing so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let us all be one family that Stands for Justice, Equality and Peace&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/let-us-all-be-one-family-that-stands-for-justice-equality-and-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/let-us-all-be-one-family-that-stands-for-justice-equality-and-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FARUGANDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proudly African & Transgender]]></category>
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On Monday, 1st March,  a group of activists and civil society organisations in Uganda presented a petition  signed by 450,000 people from across the world opposing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The Petition was presented to Edward Sekandi, the Ugandan Speaker of Parliament and called for Parliament to “enact laws that will protect people and not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proudly African &amp; Transgender: Self-Portraits in Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/proudly-african-transgender-self-portraits-in-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/proudly-african-transgender-self-portraits-in-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabrielle Le Roux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IGLHRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proudly African & Transgener]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skipper Mogapi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Mukasa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=7009</guid>
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As part of the Proudly African &#38; Transgender  exhibition by Gabrielle Le Roux, each person has written a short self-portrait on being transgender and on the exhibition itself.  Below are their stories of their lives to go with the portraits drawn by artist and activist for social justice  Gabrielle Le Roux.
The importance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homophobia in Uganda preventing HIV/AIDs access &amp; treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/homophobia-in-uganda-preventing-hivaids-access-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/homophobia-in-uganda-preventing-hivaids-access-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-homosexuality Bill Ugan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Mugisha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia Uganda]]></category>

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Frank Mugisha of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) explains how homophobia and the denial that MSM exist, plus criminalisation  is preventing access to HIV/AIDs treatment. 

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		<title>Proudly African &amp; Transgender: A cultural intervention for social justice</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/proudly-african-transgender-a-cultural-intervention-for-social-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/proudly-african-transgender-a-cultural-intervention-for-social-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabrielle Le Roux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender identity and social justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skipper Mogapi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Mukasa]]></category>

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Portraits and narratives of ten transgendered Africans from seven countries in East and Southern Africa by Gabrielle Le Roux in partnership with IGLHRC exhibited for the first time by Amnesty International &#8211; Amsterdam. 

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		<title>Urgency is now required in Uganda</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/urgency-is-now-required-in-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/urgency-is-now-required-in-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anti-homosexuality Bill Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6828</guid>
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In April 1994, Rwandan radio broadcast daily programmes calling on all Hutus to kill the Tutsis.  The broadcasts went like this&#8230;.
“Why do we hate the Tutsis? They are cockroaches…Rwanda is Hutuland. We are the majority. Tutsis are the minority. Hutus must kill all the Tutsis…Stay alert – watch your neighbours.”
In a chilling reminder of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kasha Jacqueline speaks about being lesbian in Uganda</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/kasha-jacqueline-speaks-about-being-lesbian-in-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/kasha-jacqueline-speaks-about-being-lesbian-in-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uganda 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>

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Ugandan lesbian activist Kasha Jacqueline speaks about being lesbian in Uganda, and discusses the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently before the country’s parliament. Kasha is the Coordinator of Freedom and Roam Uganda.
By Kathambi Kinoti
AWID: Please tell us about Freedom and Roam Uganda and how it was started.
KASHA JACQUELINE: Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) is the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police murder with impunity on the streets of Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/police_murder_with_impunity_on_the_streets_of_nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/police_murder_with_impunity_on_the_streets_of_nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maiduguri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigerian Army]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6693</guid>
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Last week Al Jazeera broadcast the executions of unarmed civilians in July last year in Maiduguri,  Borno State.    The context of the murders and a general statement on human rights abuses including extra- judicial executions, torture and beatings &#8211; is provided by Social Justice Advocacy Initiative, whose aim is to expose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kampala &#8211; Uganda &#8211; &#8220;Desperate. Distraught&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/kampala_-_uganda_-_desperate_distraught/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/kampala_-_uganda_-_desperate_distraught/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Namibia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>
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From Uganda,  Gay Uganda reports on continuing police harassment and roundups of LGBT people &#8211; &#8220;knock on the door&#8221;
Desperate. Distraught.
Now, the knock early morning on the door.
We say we shall run. But, what if we cannot run? We have family, jobs, businesses. We are normal human beings. Common Ugandans. What of when we cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian soldiers killing civilians</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/nigerian_soldiers_killing_civilians_/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/nigerian_soldiers_killing_civilians_/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria executions]]></category>
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Nigeria soldiers shooting defenseless civilians Jos, Plateau State one year ago.  Viewer Discretion is Advised &#8211; Sahara Reporters.  
By late tomorrow dozens of Nigerian asylum seekers will be deported from the UK
Why do people flee Nigeria?
In its 2009 World Report, Human Rights Watch maintained that Nigerian state security forces &#8220;continued to commit extrajudicial [...]]]></description>
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