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Montenegro's gay community stays hidden to survive - by Nela Lazarevi? , www.b92.ne on 12/02/09: http://www.b92.net/eng/insight/opinions.php?yyyy=2009&mm=12&nav_id=63469&version=print (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The small number of registered incidents of homophobia in Montenegro should not be interpreted as a sign of tolerance. Even if they report attacks, victims of homophobic violence tend to avoid any mention of sexual orientation. Consequently, statistical data does not reflect the actual level of homophobia in the country."
(PDF - 126 Kb) Document Date: 2 Dec 2009 (Downloads: 222)
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Montenegro: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2008 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 02/25/09: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119095.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
" There were infrequent reports of violence and discrimination directed against gay men. Society generally showed antipathy towards homosexuals, leading most to conceal their orientation. " <br><br> There were no reports of violence or discrimination against persons with HIV/AIDs. The health minister stated on December 1 that there were approximately 390 HIV positive persons in the country."
(PDF - 129 Kb) Document Date: 25 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 239)
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Uganda: African hotbed of Homophobia- By Scott Stiffler-07/03/08-http://www.edgephiladelphia.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=76956 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Musevini won reelection in 2006 amidst widespread allegations of intimidation. His administration scapegoats LGBT activists, and harasses, detains and arrests them. His officials ignore or outright condone anti-gay violence.<br>Anti-gay laws and cultural prejudices date back to Catholic and Protesant missionaries, who arrived shortly before the United Kingdom declared the area a protectorate in the late 1800s. Two-thirds of Ugandans are Catholics or Anglicans.<br>Peter Tatchell of the British gay rights group OutRage! has campaigned in support of Ugandan LGBT activists. What fuels the nation?s homophobia, he says, is "evangelical churches that are funded by the religious right in the U.S.," largely through abstinence-only AIDS programs in the AIDS-ravaged nation. The Anglican Church "has also been preaching strongly against same-sex relationships."
(PDF - 578 Kb) Document Date: 3 Jul 2008 (Downloads: 223)
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Uganda: Crackdown at AIDS Meeting- By Doug Ireland-06/19/08-http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2008/06/19/gay_city_news_archives/international%20news/19787305.txt (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> In the latest acts of repression against Uganda's LGBT community, three gay activists were arrested on June 4 as they tried to draw attention to the need for HIV prevention among gay people during a peaceful protest at a major AIDS conference, co-sponsored by the Bush administration. The government of ultra-homophobic President Yoweri Museveni has consistently refused to include any focus on prevention among LGBT Ugandans in its response to the pandemic.<br>The trio - Julian Onziema, 28, a transgendered man, 27-year-old lesbian Valentine Kalende, and Usaam Mukwaya, a 28-year-old gay man - were part of a group of activists from the nation's leading gay rights coalition, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), whose protest came in response to a new round of anti-gay declarations from the head of the country's AIDS-fighting effort.
(PDF - 266 Kb) Document Date: 19 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 239)
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Uganda: gay refugee claim accepted Ugandan says persecution common back home- By Tom Godfrey-09/30/08- http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/09/30/6928821-sun.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> A gay Ugandan man -- one of 150 mostly HIV-positive delegates who remained in Toronto after an International Aids Conference -- was declared a refugee by a board yesterday.<br>Ismail Mulawa, 30, appeared before the Immigration and Refugee Board in downtown Toronto and told member Tom Pinkney it is illegal to be gay in Uganda and he faces life in jail if forced to go home.<br>Mulawa said he'll be arrested at the airport and taken to jail on arrival in Kampala.
(PDF - 112 Kb) Document Date: 30 Sep 2008 (Downloads: 178)
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Uganda: Govt must tighten screws on gays, lesbians-By Daily Monitor-11/28/07-http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Govt_must_tighten_screws_on_gays_lesbians.shtml/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Uganda is experiencing an internationally orchestrated Crescendo of demands for ?rights? by the homosexual fraternity: male, lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transvestite:<br>Essentially these ?rights? reduce to only one, namely, the absolute, non-negotiable, ?right? to pursue and enjoy sexual pleasure man with man, woman with woman; with the bisexual exploiting the pleasures of both worlds, and the transgender covetting and securing the sexual pleasures which both God and his or her heterosexual parents never gave him or her.
(PDF - 167 Kb) Document Date: 28 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 144)
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Uganda: Hope for Ugandan lesbians asylum appeal- By Pinknews-07/04/08-http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8219.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> ep closer to her goal for asylum in the UK after a senior immigration judge dismissed the previous tribunal as a ?mess.?<br>Prossy Kakooza, 26, fled Uganda after her family found her in bed with her partner, who she had met at university, and marched both women naked to the police station where Prossy was raped and tortured by police officers.<br>She escaped to the UK after her family bribed the guards to release her so they could have her killed. They believed this would ?take away the curse from the family.
(PDF - 398 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jul 2008 (Downloads: 149)
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Uganda: Ugandan asylum seeker wins Sappho prize- By Pinknews-10/08/08- http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9241.html/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The editor of a website that documents the violence and intimidation suffered by the gay community in Uganda has won a prestigious prize.<br>The Sappho in Paradise Book Prize is conferred annually by the International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network (ILGCN), a worldwide voluntary association of lesbian and gay cultural workers.<br>Kizza Musinguzi, editor of gayrightsuganda.org, and an ayslum seeker in the UK, is the winner this year.<br>Gayrightsuganda.org "documents the organised campaign of violent religious and state-sponsored homophobia sweeping the strategic African nation," saidILGCN.
(PDF - 231 Kb) Document Date: 8 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 227)
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Uganda: Ugandan Government Cracks Down on LGBT Rights-By Sokari Ekine- 06/10/08-http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1333/63/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> In August radio presenter Gaetano Kaggwa was suspended for hosting a talk show that included lesbian activist Victor Mukasa ? yet another development in the widespread crackdown on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community sweeping Uganda. Two years earlier, Victor, who is chair of SMUG (Sexual Minorities of Uganda), had her home raided by police who confiscated all documents with a homosexual content. A fellow activist from Kenya, Yvonne Oloo, was in the house at the time and was taken to the police station and detained. Members of SMUG believe the raid, and Oloo?s detention, was part of an elaborate plan by the Ugandan Government to end LGBT activities.
(PDF - 205 Kb) Document Date: 10 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 211)
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Uganda: Ugandan Lesbian's Campaign to stay in the UK- By The Lesbian and Gay Foundation-06/04/08-http://www.lgf.org.uk/ugandan-lesbianas-campaign-to-stay-in-the-uk/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Prossy is fighting a decision by the UK Home Office to refuse her asylum and while the Home Office accept she is lesbian and has endured horrific treatment campaigners are urging that the Home office seem to think it would be safe to return to another town in Uganda where she is not known.<br>'This ignores the fact that homosexuality is illegal all over Uganda, the press conduct witch-hunts for gays and lesbians and one needs a reference from one's former village or town to settle into a new one. ' says Rev Andy Braunston from Manchester Metropolitan Community Church.<br>Rev Braunston is supporting the campaign to help Prossy stay in the UK as he has done with other asylum seekers in recent years that are seeking safety from persecution on the grounds of their homosexuality.
(PDF - 127 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 226)
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Uganda: Ugandan President claims homosexuality is "foreign culture"- By Pinknews-07/18/08-http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8413.html/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The Ugandan President has spoken of his country's "rejection" of homosexuality during a speech he gave at the wedding of a former MP's daughter.<br>Yoweri Museveni said the purpose of life was to create children and that homosexuality was a "negative foreign culture."<br>Uganda is one of the African countries at the centre of a row in the Anglican Communion over homosexuality and the ordination of gay priests that threatens to rip the Anglican Church to shreds.
(PDF - 407 Kb) Document Date: 18 Jul 2008 (Downloads: 131)
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Uganda: Use Funds Properly-AIDS Activists-By New Vision-06/04/08-http://allafrica.com/stories/200806050100.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> REDIRECT funding to strategies that have proven most effective in the fight against HIV/AIDS, activists told governments yesterday. This was during the Global HIV/AIDS implementers' meeting in Kampala.<br>They also want policy makers to cater for the vulnerable groups so as to win the war against the pandemic.<br>Too much funding is being wasted on ineffective strategies and ignoring vulnerable groups such as children, prisoners, sex workers, discordant couples, drug users and gays, they observed.
(PDF - 127 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 202)
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Ugandan activists detained in "pattern of police harassment" - By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk ? September 26, 2008: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9117.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Two human rights advocates in Uganda were held for a week without charges after police accused them of "recruiting homosexuals."<br>New York-based Human Rights Watch said the illegal detention of George "Georgina" Oundo and "Brenda" Kiiza was part of "a pattern of police harassment of LGBT people in Uganda."<br>They were held seven days without being brought before a judge or having charges laid against them.<br>"According to their lawyer, the police accused the two defenders of "recruiting homosexuals" ? not a crime defined in the Ugandan Penal Code ? and took them into custody," HRW reports.
(PDF - 217 Kb) Document Date: 26 Sep 2008 (Downloads: 235)
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Uganda: Church praised over gay fight- By Kelvin Nsangi (The Monitor)-01/04/05-http://www.mask.org.za/SECTIONS/Africa PerCountry/ABC/uganda/uganda_75.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> President Yoweri Museveni has praised the church for making a firm and principied stand against homosexuality.<br> Museveni said the church had stood its ground on homosexuality although aid from foreign friends was affected.
(PDF - 97 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 146)
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Uganda: Dad came chasing me with a panga- By IOL.co.za- 11/17/06-http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=136&art_id=qw1163747343729B225 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> A Ugandan lesbian who fled to Britain saying her Muslim father tried to kill her said on Thursday she feared for her life now she has been deported back to her homeland.<br>Faridah Kenyini, 20, was sent back to Uganda on Monday following a ruling on her asylum application, in which she said the judge doubted she could know or was telling the truth about her sexuality at the age of 17, when she left.<br>"I am so scared. I don't know what to do," she said in an interview at a secret location in Uganda.
(PDF - 41 Kb) Document Date: 17 Nov 2006 (Downloads: 250)
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Uganda: Homosexuals demand acceptance in society-By Katherine Roubos-08/17/07-http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=uganda&id=1665 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Ugandans held their first-ever press conference at Speke Hotel yesterday to launch a media campaign to advocate for their rights.<br>A rainbow banner declaring "God created us like this, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI), Let Us Live In Peace" hung above the row of seven panelists, some of whom wore elaborate masks to hide their identity. The atmosphere was almost festive, as many human rights and feminist groups gathered in support.<br>The English/Luganda statement issued by the Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug), a coalition of four Ugandan LGBTI organisations - discussed issues of HIV/Aids, police brutality and discrimination
(PDF - 120 Kb) Document Date: 17 Aug 2007 (Downloads: 173)
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Uganda: Homosexuals in Uganda "Let us in peace"-By Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)-08/16/07-http://67.59.172.93/p_blogEntry.cfm?BlogEntryID=2077 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> It is the government who had to answer for illegal behaviour of its agents by discriminating against homosexual and transgender people. Government officials raided the home of Victor Juliet Mukasa, an LGBT Human Rights Defender, in 2005, and illegally arresting a guest they found in her home. They forced their way into Victor?s home, stole many work documents, dragged her guest to Kireka police post, and forced the guest to strip naked in order to prove that she was a woman. The guest and Victor Juliet Mukasa were treated in a degrading and inhumane way. Many of us, as the Ugandan LGBTI community, have suffered similar injustice. We are here today to proclaim that these human rights violations are completely unacceptable. We have had enough of the abuse, neglect, and violence.
(PDF - 507 Kb) Document Date: 16 Aug 2007 (Downloads: 160)
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Uganda: Persecution of Lesbians and Gay men intensifies in Uganda- By Susana Fried-11/29/04-http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/pressroom/pressrelease/517.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) reports a dramatic escalation of intimidation and persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights (LGBT) activists by the government of Uganda. The government action seems to have been touched-off by the broadcasting of a call-in talk show on Radio Simba, a popular Ugandan radio station; it featured sexual rights activists -- a lesbian and two gay men -- discussing discrimination against lesbians and gay men in Uganda and the need for HIV/AIDS services for men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women.
(PDF - 218 Kb) Document Date: 29 Nov 2004 (Downloads: 153)
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Uganda: Press Homophobia Raises Fears of Crackdown-By Human Rights Watch-09/08/06-http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/09/07/uganda-press-homophobia-raises-fears-crackdown (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> In a country where a sodomy conviction carries a penalty of life imprisonment, a Ugandan tabloid?s decision to publish the names of alleged homosexuals is a chilling development that could presage a government crackdown, Human Rights Watch said today. The lesbian and gay community in Uganda has long been stigmatized and harassed by government officials.
(PDF - 230 Kb) Document Date: 8 Sep 2006 (Downloads: 140)
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Uganda: Same-sex marriage Ban Deepens Repression- By Human Rights Watch-07/12/05-http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2005/07/11/uganda-same-sex-marriage-ban-deepens-repression (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> In voting for a constitutional amendment to criminalize marriage between persons of the same sex, Uganda?s parliament has struck a gratuitous blow for prejudice and against basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.<br>On July 5, by a vote of 111 to 17 with three abstentions, the Ugandan parliament approved a proposed constitutional amendment stating that ?marriage is lawful only if entered into between a man and a woman,? and that ?it is unlawful for same-sex couples to marry.? The amendment must still pass a third reading in parliament, which is expected later in the month. A parliamentary spokesman said that specific criminal penalties will be enacted later when the Ugandan penal code is revised.
(PDF - 159 Kb) Document Date: 12 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 132)
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