LGBTI people in Uganda live with the threat of even more draconian legislation hanging over them. But there is hope.
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Ugandan LGBTI refugees from Kakuma camp and parts of Nairobi Kenya protested outside the UNHCR offices in the Nairobi capital of Kenya on Wednesday the 11th of March and delivered a set of demands.The protest turned rowdy when UNHCR staff called police who dispersed the refugees.
As I sit alone at the shore of Lake Victoria, sipping a warm frothy and spicy glass of
Gilbeys, I touch my belly and think of my trials as a transman. Another one of my partner
is pregnant. I do not know the man whose seed she is carrying. Her womb is our womb;
yet she carries the seed of a man I know not.
Ishtar-MSM exclusively runs the Ishtar Wellness Centre which provides the following services which mainly target men who have sex with other men (MSM) in Nairobi.
I never stop learning and laughing. I tell the truth. I hug people and say, ‘I love you’ and “I’m sorry”. I fight for humanity everyday. I challenge everyone about everything. When I look at my kids I see nothing but socially adjusted, intelligent, beautiful children who are so so happy.
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Uganda has made significant strides in the struggle to respect, promote and protect women’s rights. This is especially evident in its legal framework, which is all encompassing and gender neutral. However although the laws recognise the need to protect women’s rights, their implementation breeds a different result. Many laws that appear gender neutral on the books are actually implemented discriminatively against the women. This is as a result of failure for the legislature to address the embedded, institutionalised and structural gender inequalities that have been caused by decades of gender discrimination and marginalisation.