“In the eyes of a pandemic” is a documentary film showing the impact of COVID-19 on LGBT and sex workers community in Uganda, the strategies deployed by community members and organisation through the lockdown
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The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Assistant post will be currently working remotely and he or she works under the overall leadership and supervision of the National Coordinator of the Uganda Key Populations Consortium (UKPC)
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to magnify existing inequalities, including those related to gender and poverty. A rights-based and gender-responsive approach is needed to overcome these barriers.
Golden Centre for Women’s Rights on July 30th 2020, held a dialogue meeting with key influencers on generating community support towards sexual reproductive health rights and an end to gender based violence among marginalized women in Wakiso.
This program seeks to help challenged LBQ women to obtain and keep permanent housing, breaking the repetitive cycle of homelessness. Through effective and efficient programs like Hebwa, Hakuna Matata and Advocacy that are carried out at the shelter.
In my working career that now spans over three decades I have worked with many vulnerable and marginalized groups (handicapped children, psychiatric patients, migrants, sex-workers, survivors of domestic abuse etc. etc.). Nevertheless, I want to argue that LGBTIQ refugees are often in exceptional difficulties.
WARNING: HIGHLY GRAPHIC CONTENT
On the night of Thursday 25th June 2020, a shelter at #Block13 also well-known to be housing LGBTI+ refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp was set ablaze by unknown assailants. While no life was lost, a few victims sustained minor injuries as many others were left with no place to lay their heads.
In a historic move, the upper parliamentary Chamber of Gabon voted to have homosexuality decriminalized. This came just one week after the lower parliament voted the same way.
However, this year like all other worldwide celebrations, the LGBTIQ community has been forced to take a step back and find more creative ways of holding Pride events without putting anyone’s life at risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus.
While the political will for change seems clear, there is often a gap between theory and practice. This is where the emphasis between now and 2030 must lie. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, teachers mention that implementing inclusive education is hard because they lack resources.