Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, last week, launched the first ever consolidated report detailing human rights violations against key populations in Uganda. The report focuses on the period 2018-2020.
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While LGBT+ people are not explicitly identified as a marginalized population in Agenda 2030, several SDG targets provide entry points that can be utilized by advocates of inclusive societies to ensure that LGBT+ people are not left behind and the purpose of the report is to highlight the linkages and build bridges between SDG action and commitments to LGBT+ inclusion.
If you believe you have the above skills and experience, passion and desire to join Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC), Kindly submit your application, CV and scanned copy of your academic documents addressed to the Executive Director by 6:00pm 3rd October 2020 via: [email protected].
The heterosexual community refers to you as gay while the LGBT community refers to you as ‘straight’. It is a deep seated prejudice that has helped me understand homophobia. We can’t demonize people as homophobic, yet we ourselves treat bisexuals with similar sentiments.
Network for Key Population Service Organisation (UNESO) with support from UHAI and AIDSFONDS, last week, released a report detailing the human rights violations experienced by sex workers during the national lockdown that was imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the eventual publication and distribution of the magazine, we teamed up with the LGBTIQ refugees in Nairobi and Nature Network and together we created what will be a bi-monthly talk show titled UNMASKING THE MYTHS.
Dr Sylvia Tamale will on Thursday September 24th 2020 be discussing her newest book Decolonization and Afro-Feminism with writer and feminist scholar Charmainne Pereira. The discussion will be hosted by Fironze Manji, from publishing house Daraja Press and it will be live on both YouTube and Facebook.
To follow the discussion, follow these links
https://www.facebook.com/events/752516101987766
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaxz_zZBekE
HRAPF whose offices were previously in Mengo officially opened its doors to their clients at their new office, The HRAPF House, which is located at Nsubuga Road, off Ntinda-Kiwatule Road, Ntinda, Nakawa Division, Kampala.
In part one of this two-part series, an open bisexual woman who prefers to identify as queer in the acceptance that her sexuality is fluid and ever changing speaks to our reporter about what life is like for her and how she navigates and balances her marital relationship with her attraction to women.
According to Ssewanyana Roderick, the Project Coordinator at COPTEC, this initiative was designed under the Key Populations Investiment Fund to raise awareness and understanding of key stakeholders within law enforcement and local government bodies on security risks and impacts of how the law affects the implementation of HIV services to the entire key populations spectrum.