This year’s campaign themed “Stand Up for Human Rights” looks to encourage every global citizen to stand up, promote and defend human rights not only for themselves but for all humanity including gender and sexual minorities.
Kuchu Times Editor
“… This raised the question ‘How do we protect this community member who does not not belong to any organization so as to protect the general LGBT community?’
Arcus Foundation is pleased to issue this open call for concepts to support International LGBTQ social justice work.
Discriminatory laws like the HIV law should be repealed to enable the general population understand that HIV is no longer a death sentence and there is no shame in being HIV+.
It should be noted that despite the legalization of same sex marriages and civil union partnerships since November 2006, this exemption fosters discrimination based on sexual orientation that is against the law.
“… And it being a society that is enshrined in patriarchal tendencies, these men often feel threatened by the presence of women that are masculine. So, they tend to use sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances as a way to make these LBQ women subordinate to them by threatening them because they feel like them presenting as queer is a threat to their manhood.”
“… It is self defeating how members of the same government can take opposing actions ending in the escalation of an epidemic which is and can surely be defeated without moral policing…”
Transgender Equality Uganda (TEU) is seeking for an experienced full time Finance Assistant to work with our financial team. The Financial Assistant is responsible for day-to-day financial administration across the organization.
Rainbow Mirrors Uganda is looking for individuals to fill the positions of Finance Volunteer, Executive Assistant and Community and Health Officer to work in the finance, administration and community engagement departments respectively.
While several parliamentarians emphasized that homosexuality is not a human right but a sickness, the Bufumbira East MP, Nsaba Buturo who moved the motion to applaud Kadaga insisted that parliament should persuade the government to deal firmly with NGO entities that support LGBT rights in Uganda.