South Africa’s Kasi 2 Kasi Queer Cinema is doing its part in flattening the Covid-19 curve by going entirely digital for their annual film festival. The 2020 festival which started on 31st July will run until 17th August.
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However, the afternoon of 1st August 2014 not only gave the community reason for celebration but renewed their hope that perhaps the justice system would one day listen to us and uphold our rights and humanity.
Golden Centre for Women’s Rights on July 30th 2020, held a dialogue meeting with key influencers on generating community support towards sexual reproductive health rights and an end to gender based violence among marginalized women in Wakiso.
Nigerian filmmaker Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim is making history in her new movie Ife, where she focuses on a love story between two lesbians. According to the fil maker, Ife is a Yoruba word meaning love.
This program seeks to help challenged LBQ women to obtain and keep permanent housing, breaking the repetitive cycle of homelessness. Through effective and efficient programs like Hebwa, Hakuna Matata and Advocacy that are carried out at the shelter.
In my working career that now spans over three decades I have worked with many vulnerable and marginalized groups (handicapped children, psychiatric patients, migrants, sex-workers, survivors of domestic abuse etc. etc.). Nevertheless, I want to argue that LGBTIQ refugees are often in exceptional difficulties.
The organization which advocates for LGBTI rights in Uganda through the use of sport, visual art and culture hopes to create a more functional working relationship between these two marginalized groups – a move they believe will increase visibility and acceptance of the two within the greater societal setting.
HRAPF, on Thursday 16th July 2020, made a statement on the violations of human rights for marginalised persons during the implementation of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Uganda at the 66th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Banjul The Gambia.
5TH EDITION OF BOMBASTIC MAGAZINE 17th July 2020 We are ecstatic to finally be able to share the fifth and latest edition of our annual publication, Bombastic Magazine. This particular edition is very special because it focused on LGBTIQ refugees and asylum seekers- a category of people within our community whose existence we continue […]
Sudan is the latest country to give hope to the African LGBTI community after it passed an amendment to abolish the section of its penal court that imposes the death penalty on anyone found engaging in consensual same sex relations. The new amendment was passed last week.