African groups call for the African Union to urgently respond to gender and sexuality rights violations in Africa, and particularly to anti-gay laws recently passed in Uganda and Nigeria
Tweet African groups call for the African Union to urgently respond to gender and sexuality rights violations in Africa, and particularly to anti-gay laws recently passed in Uganda and Nigeria As African civil society organisations whose members live and work…
Africa LGBTIQ – aid conditionality & LGBT Rights
Tweet From Paper Bird by Scott Long - “Resources for the unbelievers on aid conditionality and Africa LGBT Rights” I’ve been working desultorily (a beautiful word: say it slowly: it seems to capture being lazy but just alive enough to…
The Day the African Commission Disavowed Humanity
Tweet The following article by Fikile Vilakazi and Sibongile Ndashe, was originally published in Pambazuka News, November 2010. The article is a response to the decision by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to deny observer status to…
Statement from the Wits University on Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Africa
Tweet MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL DATE: MONDAY, 3 MARCH 2014 STATEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND PERTAINING TO ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY LEGISLATION IN AFRICA The University of the Witwatersrand notes with dismay and concern recent legislation…
What is this protest about?
Tweet Pambazuka – Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now 02 Mar 14 President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the…
Sexual Liquidation & Responsibility to Protect
Tweet The Rise of Sexual Liquidation by Joseph Sewedo Today, laws are being promulgated to heighten sexual liquidation in several parts of the world. The last few months have been very challenging for human rights activists/ advocates globally, especially activists…
Uganda: Global Day of Action Against the AHB
Tweet UGANDA. URGENT CALL TO SUPPORT AFTER THE RECENT PASSAGE OF THE ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL IN UGANDAN PARLIAMENT. 31st JANUARY 2014 Background On 20th December 2013, Lesbian and Gay Bisexual Transgender Community in Uganda woke up to the grim news…
The Week on Sunday – The Reward for Love is Death!
Tweet Very briefly – The December issue of Chimurenga, The Chronic is out and the $7 digital edition price is worth it if only to read two pieces. First Nick Mwaluko’s “XXYX AFRICA” a review of “three new excellent works:…
#16Days: AWID Condemns Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Tweet 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…
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill – 2012
The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill is back in Parliament. It’s return was announced by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga who according to this report is committed to passing the Bill by the end of the year though Ugandan activists believe it could be passed as early as this week.
QAR Weekly News
Tweet * Second hate crime in a week. Modise Hamiliton Mosweu was stabbed to death in Westonaria, South Africa A gay West Rand man has been brutally murdered, and possibly raped, in Westonaria in an apparent hate crime. The body…
Anti-gay rights crusade in Africa a distraction
Tweet 2 1/2 years since it’s first reading in October 2009, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill full texthas once again been tabled in parliament. The bill was shelved in 2010 at which time President Yoweri Museveni warned those advocating for the Bill that it…
Statements by Ugandan & African organisations against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Tweet The following Ugandan and African human rights organisations have condemned the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill 20009: Ugandan Law Society. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill proposed to Parliament in 2009 would, if enacted into law, in its current state violate international human rights…
Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill Back in Parliament: Still doubts on the Death Penalty
Tweet The Anti-Homosexuality Bill which was first introduced in 2009 and included the death penality has been tabled for debate in the 2012 parliamentary session. The Bill which did not get a reading in last years session is carried over….
Mbeki on Uganda AHB & Africa’s selfish political classes
Tweet Former South African President,Thabo Mbeki has criticised the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill [AHB] in Kampala. Mbeki was speaking in response to a question by academic activist, Sylvia Tamale on what he would say to “Mr Bahati about the plight of…
David Kato Rest In Peace my friend.
Tweet On Wednesday 26th January 2010 David Kato – Ugandan Kuchu, activist, human rights defender, Man of courage, stubborn, intense, the real. He lived without trimmings literally and metaphorically. David lived his life on the edge with no protection from…
Missionaries of Hate: US evangelicals in Uganda – recycled homophobia
“I was shocked the other day when I was watching this American movie ‘Milk,’†said Sylvia Tamale, dean of law at Makerere University in Uganda, referring to Gus Van Sant’s 2008 biopic. “I was shocked to see that the arguments put forward by the proponents of anti-homosexuality sentiments were exactly the same, almost word for word. These arguments are not new at all that Ugandans are using to justify the anti-homosexuality bill.â€
Video tour of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Tweet Excellent video spelling out the life and Death details of the Ugandan Bill presently under discussion. Please circulate. Via Waking Up Now
Responses to LGBTI in Africa
Tweet I’m writing this post in response to number of articles on the prevalence of homophobia in Africa and to try and give some perspective and historical context. In the last six months we have seen the expression…
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