Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Saturday, July 20, 2013,
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By Frank
First lady, Janet Museveni is reported to have said that the Anti Homosexuality Bill is not meant to persecute gay people, noting that Ugandans do not necessarily kill them although adding that they are not admired either. The remarks were made, and noted by Uganda’s Observer newspaper that claims the president’s wife reportedly told a human rights delegation that had visited President Museveni. Last month, a delegation from America’s Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Huma... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Saturday, February 9, 2013,
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By Sebowa Uganda's
Parliament that returned from recess on its third day, of its
second session the 9th Parliament, moved the Anti-homosexuality bill from Number 8 to number 6 on the Order Papers
(Agenda). The Bill, commonly known as The Kill the Gays Bill, which
was at number 1 spot last year, was not passed last year as promised by
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Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Tuesday, January 1, 2013,
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By Joy
2012 has ended on a sad note as one of the founder of an LGBTI group Youth on Rock Foundation was arrested in Kawempe by police officers charging him with crimes relating to homosexuality .The act of the police just shows the continued unabated hostility harassment of LGBT community in Uganda as government officers misinform the public ,stir hatred. One of our member has been at Kawempe police station were Joseph is still being held trying to secure his release, police say there are... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Sunday, November 11, 2012,
By Joy
The speaker of Uganda's Parliament wants to the private members bill of David Bahati "anti -homosexuallity" bill to passed into law.This was after a heated exchange with Canada 's foreign affairs ministers John Baird ,who condemned countries that criminalize homosexuality.During this conference he called on Uganda to protect its people regardless of sex,sexuality or faith.
Now members of parliament have passed a resolution in support of calls to revive the notorious anti-gaybill durin... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Wednesday, February 15, 2012,
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By Fred Muwanguzi Minister of ethics and integrity a catholic priest Simon Lukodo who said nobody would block the anti homosexuality bill on valentine's day tuesday stormed and ordered for the arrest of some members who had gathered for capacity building workshop at the Imperial Resort Hotel, later he blocked the LGBT conference some us narrowly survived being arrested and had to flee for our dear lives. He ordered the management of the five star hotel ,Imperial Resort Beach Hotel to kick us o... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Wednesday, December 7, 2011,
President Obama ordered U.S. diplomatic missions and federal agencies working abroad to strengthen efforts to fight international discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals, saying he is “deeply concerned by the violence” against them in many parts of the world.
This memo was delivered simultaneously with a speech being given by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Human Rights in Geneva. (see recording below)
The memo elevates the importance of combat... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Saturday, October 22, 2011,
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Monday, September 12, 2011,
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BY Pauline The First Lady Ms Janet Museveni, was behind the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, US Ambassador to Uganda, Jerry Lanier, said in a leaked diplomatic cable.
The revelation was made by Senior Presidential Adviser John Nagenda, during a discussion with a US embassy political officer.
In Mr Lanier’s comments which were leaked on S... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Monday, September 5, 2011,
By Joy
Parents under the Family Life Network and Uganda Coalition for Moral Values (UCMV) have opened a fresh campaign to force the government abandon economic and foreign policy considerations and pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009.
Mobilising under the ‘Uganda National Parents Network,’ the “Pass the BILL Now Campaign” the parents addressed journalists in Kampala yesterday and outlined their course of action, following revelations lately that Cabinet had abandoned the bill ow... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Friday, August 5, 2011,
By Steven On saturday 30 july the office of Freedom and Roam (FARUG) ,one of Uganda's LGBT group was broken into , 4 days before this incident offices of SMUG were also broken into luckly enough nothing was stolen.This burglary was reported by FARUG leader Kasha Jacqueline and she provided the following update about the robbery Five computers two printers Microwave ,server and some documents including the members electronic data base .A jerrycan of acid, one computer ,old padlocks filled wi... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Sunday, July 24, 2011,
Uganda : Transsexual woman molested, hospitalised for “looking abnormal”
Sebowa
A Ugandan transsexual woman, Ms Beyonce has made a desperate call to Uganda Police for protection from public molestation, including physical beatings for allegedly “looking abnormal.”
Ms Beyonce, who was born Benjamin Tushabe, in an interview with Behind the Mask on July 3, in Kampala said she has been molested five times in less than two months.
“I have consulted the doctors at Mulago (the natio...
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Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Thursday, July 21, 2011,
Dr. Sylvia Tamale, a feminist professor of law at Makerere University, was confronted by Ugandan MPs at a seminar on 24 June 2011 for her stance on LGBTI rights in Uganda.
The seminar focused on the role of women in politics and veered off course when Major General Katumba Wamala (representative of the armed forces in parliament) asked Tamale why ‘she encourages women to marry women and men to marry men’.
I thought this was something Tamale could easily dismiss as outside the context of ... Continue reading ...
Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Friday, July 15, 2011,
(Johannesburg) South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda, a country criticized for threatening the rights of gays, has been found guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay column he wrote before his appointment, the South African Human Rights Commission said Tuesday. Commission spokesman Vincent Moaga said a judge ruled that the 2008 newspaper column headlined “Call me names, but gay is NOT OK” by veteran journalist Jon Qwelane promoted hatred. Q...
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Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Tuesday, June 21, 2011,
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Today’s resolution is the first UN resolution ever to bring specific focus to human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and follows a joint statement on these issues delivered at the March session of the council. It affirms the universality of human rights, and notes concern about acts of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This commitment of the Human Rights Council sends an important signal of suppo...
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Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Tuesday, June 21, 2011,
in SOUTH AFRICA,
Five years since the decision by the South African National Blood Services (SANBS) to allow Gay men who have been celibate for six months or more to donate blood, South Africa’s MSM continued saving the lives of fellow citizens by giving blood during World Blood Donor Day on June 14.
All over the world, June 14, is marked as World Blood Donor Day. This year SANBS said in a statement, “The Campaign is More Blood – More Life, and this year’s theme is ‘let’s ...
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Posted by GAYS AND LESBIANS RIGHTS UGANDA (GLRU) on Saturday, June 18, 2011,
Minister Sam Kutesa his remarks about content of the Bill, he said the Government was aware that the Penal Code already provides against homosexuality.
“It may, therefore, not be necessary to have another law to further criminalise it.” He, however, added that there is a need to protect minors against homosexual relations “as we have already done with a law to protect minors against defilement in heterosexual relations”.
Kutesa further pointed out that the Government does not s... Continue reading ...
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