Early this week, a published story indicated that a woman had been gang raped for allegedly being a lesbian. Although it appeared that the rape had occurred a few years ago, the lady in question is now seeking legal redress.
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This is the sixth episode of the Weekly Radio News Roundup. You can hear this and other programming on our station streaming 24/7.
This is the sixth episode of the Kuchu Times News Roundup. May 11 – 17, 2015
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Kuchu Anthem by Brayo Bryans
The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), with its Headquarters in Amsterdam, is the only global entity operated by and for people living with HIV, through partner networks in six different regions of the world. Through the Global Advocacy Agenda, GNP+ aims for universal access to treatment, care and prevention services; decreased stigma and discrimination; and an improvement in the meaningful involvement of people living with HIV.
MARPI Bridging the Health Service Gap in Most At Risk Populations
By Ruth Muganzi
The Most At Risk Populations Initiative (MARPI) is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) funded programme that was started in 2008 to specifically deal with health issues affecting key populations that are at a higher risk of contracting the HIV virus.
Internship Opportunity for Transgender Women
Social, Health and Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender Women of Africa is a registered Non Profit and Public Benefit Organisation, based in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The collective focuses its resources on the development of transgender women, including development opportunities.
Why We Must Celebrate our ‘Queerness’ By Banji Baj Africa was considered a dark continent by the early explorers and missionaries mainly because of the inhabitants’ skin color and cultural practices that were considered inhuman and rigid.
Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project launches an update for The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) 2015 so as to assist activists worldwide in raising public awareness of hate violence against trans and gender-diverse people.
The East African mainstream media has fallen back to outing LGBTI persons within the region; Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper this morning accused a top NSSF official of forcing her subordinates into nonconsensual intercourse.
This is the fifth episode of the Kuchu Times Weekly News Roundup on Kuchu Times TV. This episode covers May 4 – May 10, 2015. Thanks for watching!