The Kwan Hebwa project currently under the Hebwa (Empower Her) program will run in the next 6 months and seeks to promote gainful self-employment towards economic development and financial independence through appropriate skilling for the LBQ women.
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8th October is International Lesbian Day, a celebration that initially started in New Zealand and Australia in 1990 and has now been adopted by the global LGBTI movement. The day is intended to celebrate lesbian culture, resilience, beliefs, struggles as well as their contribution to the movement as a whole.
KUCHU TIMES MEDIA GROUP seeks to partner with three active and reputable LGBTI focused organisations to aid in conducting digital media and security trainings. The organisations must be based and have their programs and activities focusing on LGBTI persons living in Western, Northern and Eastern Uganda.
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.
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: awacuganda@gmail.com.
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