The EU spokeswoman, Susanne Mbise said in a statement that, “The EU regrets the deterioration of the human rights and rule of law situation in Tanzania and will be conducting a broad review of its relations with Tanzania.”
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“… my class teacher, when I was 8, she told me that I have lesbian tendencies. The word was too big for me so I didn’t care what it meant and she didn’t elaborate. She just said that I will be chased out of Uganda! And for me, that’s what caught my attention. Chased out of Uganda!? Where would I go? This is the only place I know…”
The current turn of events in Tanzania has frightened the LGBT community in East Africa and can propagate campaigns against homosexuality in the entire African continent.
“The theme was about solidarity,” Beyonce Karungi, the Executive Director of Trans Equality Uganda told Kuchu Times. “As a Transgender and sex work activist in solidarity, we advocated for the inclusion of Male and Transgender sex workers in the National HIV programming and we believe that this will be worked on,” she added.
It is based on this background that on Friday 28th October 2018, Vinacef Uganda organized a community HIV testing outreach at Angels Refugee Support Association Group which is a refugee camp for displaced key populations in Kampala.
“To ensure inclusion of all women, we must work as a wider movement and across movements.”
For so long, all women have been prejudiced and looked at as the weaker sex. It gets worse when one identifies as part of the sexual minorities (LBQ) who are already held at the lowest regard because of societal homophobia and stigmatization.
Together with DeJones Deus and Pepe Oziema, Tim birthed the idea of “Voices: Combating Homophobia in Uganda” in 2012. The main objective of the project was to tell and share stories by LGBTI Ugandans to tackle homophobia.
Several gay and bisexual men that have been targets of cyber harassment confirm that the perpetrators utilize social media platforms, text messages, emails including other digital tools to post and share negative content about the way they choose to relate, making homophobic remarks that mock their looks and mannerisms especially if they are visibly feminine.