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Uganda: Museveni warns on dangers of sodomy - By Francis Kagolo, www.newvision.co.ug, on 06/03/10: http://www.newvision.co.ug/PA/8/12/721699
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has commended the Church for its strong stand against homosexuality.
He asked the clergy and African leaders to guard against Western culture, warning that the continent will end up eaten by homosexuality if they relax.
?The African Church is the only one that is still standing against homosexuality. The Europeans are finished. If we follow them, we shall end up in Sodom and Gomorrah,? Museveni warned.
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Document Date: 3 Jun 2010
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Uganda national sheikhs task force against homosexuality ranched its campaign against homosexuality with help of national Muslim Dawa association of Uganda.- by y Denis Nzioka, www.gayactivistsallianceafrica.org on 05/24/10: http://www.gayactivistsallianceafrica.org/
"Among the articles he mentioned is the death penalty, HIV /Aids testing, compulsory reporting and confidentiality clause which allows the courts of law to hear such cases in camera yet the press has been very instrumental in exposing homosexuality as a vice. He also went on to say that the constitution of Uganda needs amendment since it allows privacy of individuals meaning that it?s very hard to track homosexuals in their houses."
"He assured the audience that Uganda has a similar law in the penal code like in Malawi. He praised the Malawi government for imprisonment of the two gay activist.
He says it?s instead the government, police and the judiciary to put this in practice like how it happened in Malawi. He attacked police which usually turn against victims and instead harass them on reporting homosexuals and their acts. He cited examples like pastor kayanja?s case."
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Document Date: 24 May 2010
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In Uganda, Push to Curb Gays Draws U.S. Guest- By JOSH KRON, www.nytimes.com on 05/02/10:
"For much of Sunday?s service, the topic of homosexuality was slipped in between mentions of corruption and witchcraft; evils that Ugandans were told they should wish away. Unlike at other rallies, gay activists did not picket or protest. Instead they roamed the grounds quietly, watching from a distance. "
"The bill?s sponsor, David Bahati, who attended Sunday?s service, said in an interview that it was likely that some of its harsher provisions, including the death penalty, would be taken out before its passage, which he said he expected soon. But, he said, the goal of the bill would remain the same. The turnout for the free prayer service, and the support from Mr. Engle, were a good sign, Mr. Bahati said. "
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Document Date: 2 May 2010
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Ugandan lesbian wins UK asylum court case, will government still try to deport? and SB (Uganda) - approved judgment and case - note - (LGBT in Uganda)- By Paul Canning on madikazemi.blogspot.com, 02/24/10: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/02/ugandan-lesbian-wins-uk-asylum-court.html
"A Ugandan lesbian, known at this stage only as 'SB', has won an asylum court case in the High Court against Home Office arguments that she could safely be deported."
This showed that there is a check on failed asylum seeker returnees by Ugandan police and that, given the current hostile attitude towards homosexuality, it would be more difficult for SB to bribe her way out of detention (as John Bosco, who was returned by the Home Office, was forced to do), and it's likely that any bribe would be for a considerable sum.
Amnesty International said that her history of arrest and detention would mean she would be ?at real risk of harm should she be forcibly returned." Evidence presented of the abuse suffered by lesbians in Ugandan police detention ran the gamut from touching of intimate parts to the threat of being put into a male cell with the consequent risk of rape.
This document also includes the Approved Judgement.
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Document Date: 24 Feb 2010
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Uganda pastor screens gay porn in church - by AFP on www.google.com on 02/17/10: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hyJex4vkO1MYbS3sVu8PBYCml2Lg
KAMPALA - A pastor seeking to bolster Uganda's anti-gay laws which already make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment screened gay porn in a Kampala church Wednesday in a bid to drum up support.
The screening was attended by around 300 supporters crammed into an evangelical church in the Ugandan capital after plans for a "million-man march" were thwarted by police.
"We had planned to have a million-man and -woman march in Kampala but unfortunately we were told that we could not march because of security concerns," Martin Ssempa told the crowd.
On Monday, Ssempa held a rally in the town of Jinja, east of Kampala, after obtaining a police authorisation.
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Document Date: 17 Feb 2010
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Ugandan legislator considers hanging gays A Ugandan parliamentarian wants the death sentence for homosexuals in certain circumstances. The international community has threatened Uganda with sanctions if its parliament accepts the proposed bill. - by www.dw-world.de on 02/17/10: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5227556,00.html
"MP David Bahati from the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) thinks homosexuality should be dealt with as a capital offence. In the bill he introduced in October 2009 he suggested the death sentence for gay sex with minors, with disabled people and if the accused is HIV positive."
Deutsche Welle correspondent Alex Gitta in Kampala explained that Bahati is an influential politician within President Yoweri Museveni's NRM, but also "a strong Christian attached to a group of Christians in the United States of America." The Family, as the organisation is called, is known for its good political connections in Washington and elsewhere."
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Document Date: 17 Feb 2010
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Uganda Bill Gets a Hearing in U.S. Congress-by:dshesgreen,Science Speaks,01/22/10:http://sciencespeaks.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/uganda-bill-gets-a-hearing-in-u-s-congress/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScienceSpeaksHivTbNews+(Science+Speaks%3A+HIV+%26+TB+News)
The debate over Uganda?s Anti-Homosexuality Bill moved to the U.S. Congress today, as HIV experts and gay-rights activists denounced the proposal and urged U.S. leaders?including President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama?to ratchet up pressure on Uganda to drop the draconian measure.
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Document Date: 22 Jan 2010
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Ugandan Muslim cleric threatens squads to hunt down gays- by www.christianpost.com on 01/19/10; http://www.christianpost.com/blogs/opinion/2010/01/ugandan-muslim-cleric-threatens-squads-to-hunt-down-gays-19/print.html
"Multah Bukenya, a Tabliq cleric, has also renewed his threat to form squads that would hunt
gays. "
"Tabliq is an explession of Islam which focuses on inviting others to join their faith, a kind of mission
emphasis. In some places, notably Uganda, it has been linked to more radical political
activities. According to prior reports, this particular cleric has in the past made clear his radical intent
to rid Uganda of gays. While one should always use caution in reading these reports, this current
article in the Daily Monitor provides some new confirmation of inflamatory statements attributed to
Bukenya in the past."
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Document Date: 19 Jan 2010
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Ugandan Pastor and Rick Warren Pal Martin Ssempa Planning Million Man 'Kill the Gays' March -From Towleroad News on 01/15/10: http://www.connexion.org/gay-news/news?id=418970
" The ex-rebel leader said he had been under pressure from Western leaders. 'We want to show how many people support the bill,' Pastor Martin Ssempa told journalists in the Ugandan capital. 'We want to give a postcard that (Museveni) can send to his friend (U.S. President) Barack Obama,' Ssempa said in front of posters saying 'Africans Unite Against Sodomy' and 'Barack Obama Back Off'. He said the march was planned for February 17. Ssempa, one of Uganda's most prominent anti-gay campaigners, criticised Western nations as 'failed states' for supporting gay rights.""
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Document Date: 15 Jan 2010
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Human rights impact assessment of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill - Sylvia Tamale, 01/14/10: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/61423
This speech was given at a public dialogue on 18 November 2009, Makerere University. It is republished from the Global MSM & HIV Forum.
* Dr Sylvia Tamale is a Ugandan feminist lawyer and academic based in Kampala, Uganda. She was elected as the first female Dean of Law at Makerere University in 2004.
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"6. Perhaps the most shocking aspect of this bill is Clause 18, which requires Uganda to opt out of any international treaty that we have previously ratified that goes against the spirit of the bill. Article 287 of the Constitution obliges Uganda to fully subscribe to all its international treaties obligations ratified prior to the passing of the 2005 constitution. We cannot legislate or simply wish these obligations away. Indeed, international law prohibits us from doing such a thing. Article 26 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties clearly sets out the pacta sunt servanda rule which requires that ?Every treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith."
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Document Date: 14 Jan 2010
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The Council for Global Equality releases a study on the impact of PEPFAR on LGBT communities- 01/11/10: http://cfge.nonprofitsoapbox.com/storage/cfge/documents/pepfar_report_final_c.pdf
12 PEPFAR weaknesses
15 The LGBT community
22 The Uganda experience
25 The condom recall
27 To be gay in Uganda
"Homosexuals are a highly stigmatized and socially excluded group in Uganda, a status that
puts them at particular risk of contracting HIV. They are both invisible and illegal to the
government of Uganda. According to the Ugandan penal code, ?Carnal knowledge of any
person against the order of nature? is a criminal offense, punishable by between 14 years
and life imprisonment. And in 2006, the Ugandan Parliament passed a constitutional
amendment making same-sex marriages illegal.
As for the country's ABC prevention campaign, "There's no mention of gays and lesbians
in the national strategic framework," said James Kigozi of the Uganda AIDS Commission.
"These two groups [gays and lesbians] are marginal. Their numbers are negligible." 107 The
Minister of State for Health, Jim Muhwezi, insisted that Uganda's ABC approach was
adequately addressing all groups in Uganda, including homosexuals. "They don't deserve
a special message," he said. ?They shouldn't exist, and we hope they are not there. If
they do exist they are covered under the three-pronged approach of ABC and should be
content with that.?"
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Document Date: 11 Jan 2010
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Uganda: Hate Begets Hate- New York Times editorial on 01/05/09: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/opinion/05tue2.html
"According to The Times's Jeffrey Gettleman, officially sanctioned homophobia is particularly acute. Gay Ugandans are tormented with beatings, blackmail, death threats and what has been described as "correctional rape."
"The government's venom is chilling: "Homosexuals can forget about human rights," James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently."
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Document Date: 5 Jan 2010
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Gay in Uganda, and Feeling Hunted - by By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, New York Times, on 01/04/10: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04gay.html?pagewanted=print
"KAMPALA, Uganda ? Isolation, insults, threats and violence: this is what Uganda?s mostly closeted gay community has dealt with for years."
?We walk on the streets knowing that at any moment someone could be knowing you and there could be mob justice,? said Stosh Mugisha, a woman who is going through a transition to become a man. ?You feel embarrassed by someone touching you. People provoke us. But I just play it cool. Keep a low profile. It is terrible.?
?I detest gays in my heart,? said Kassiano E. Wadri, a member of Parliament and the chief whip of the opposition. ?When I see a gay, I think that person needs psychotherapy. You need to break him.?
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Document Date: 4 Jan 2010
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Ugandan pastors defend anti-homosexuality Bill- by Lillian Kwon on Christianity Today on 12/22/09: http://www.christiantoday.com/article/ugandan.pastors.defend.antihomosexuality.bill/24948.htm
"Pastors in Uganda recently chided evangelical pastor Rick Warren after he urged them to speak out against the country's anti-homosexuality Bill."
"Critics, including Warren, say the Bill places "everybody" at risk ? including parents, teachers, landlords, doctors, media and religious leaders who provide counselling to someone struggling with their sexuality, work with those infected with HIV and Aids, or do not report an offense within 24 hours of discovery."
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Document Date: 22 Dec 2009
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Martin Ssempa Responds to Rick Warren on Uganda's Homosexuality Bill - By Jodi Jacobson, www.rhrealitycheck.org on 12/19/09: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/12/19/martin-ssempa-responds-rick-warren-ugandas-homosexuality-bill
Africa101: Homosexuality is illegal, unnatural, ungodly and un-African: In Uganda as most of the global South, homosexuality is an ?evil and repugnant sexual act? which simultaneously breaks four established laws.
First, the law of nature, which states that males mate with females;
Second the law of our land as already stated in our Penal Code and constitution;
Thirdly, the law of our faiths as in the Holy Bible for Christians and the
Holy Quran for our Moslem friends;
Fourthly, the law of our African tribal cultures which have been handed down to us by our fathers from thousands of years of civilized traditions.
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Document Date: 19 Dec 2009
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Is Uganda's Antigay Fervor Spreading? An African Domino Theory, Examined.- by: Katie Paul, Newsweek, 12/18/09: http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2009/12/18/is-uganda-s-antigay-fervor-spreading-an-african-domino-theory-examined.html
Uganda is the one asserting moral leadership in the region. Domestically, its antigay drive makes for a convenient political ploy; with a war raging in north that the government can?t contain, it's easy to gain popularity points by exploiting the myth of postcolonial attack on African masculinity. But the ploy could have international ramifications. If the law passes in Uganda, Johnson anticipates a domino effect of attempts in other countries throughout the region to tighten their legal codes.
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Document Date: 18 Dec 2009
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Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal - By KATHARINE HOURELD AND GODFREY OLUKYA ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS on 12/08/09: http://www.seattlepi.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=t&refer=http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1105ap_af_uganda_gay_death_penalty.html
"Anyone who "aids, abets, counsels or procures another to engage of acts of homosexuality" faces seven years in prison if convicted. Landlords who rent rooms or homes to homosexuals also could get seven years and anyone with "religious, political, economic or social authority" who fails to report anyone violating the act faces three years."
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Document Date: 8 Dec 2009
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Uganda: Museveni warns against homosexuality- by Emmanuel Gyezaho on Monitor.co.ug on 11/16/09: http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Museveni_warns_against_homosexuality_94665.shtml
"The President's comments follow efforts by lawmaker David Bahati (NRM, Ndorwa West) who moved a private members Bill last month?The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, to outlaw homosexuality in the country.
Included in the draft text are not only condemnations of same-sex relations, but a new crime that carries the death penalty, and a criminal sentence for having sex while HIV positive."
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Document Date: 16 Nov 2009
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Ugandan gays and Muslim women:a common struggle to redefine family- by Cassandra Balchin, www.opendemocracy.net on 11/09/09: http://www.opendemocracy.net/print/48948
"In a recent commentary on the Bill [1], two Ugandan human rights defenders, Solome Nakaweesi-Kimbugwe and Frank Mugisha, warned that ?By penalising citizens for failing to report 'suspected homosexuals' to the authorities, the bill calls for the creation of a fascist-style society where family members, service providers and colleagues are made to spy on each other."
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Document Date: 9 Nov 2009
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Uganda: Clergy: Jail gays, don't hang them - by By Sheila Naturinda on www.monitor.co.ug on 10/29/09: http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Clergy_Jail_gays_don_t_hang_them_93749.shtml
"Homosexuals should not be killed but instead imprisoned for life, religious leaders have suggested.
Making their input in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 yesterday, the clergy said the clause on death as
a penalty for homosexuality be scrapped. "
The group, which also comprised Dr Joseph Kakembo of the Seventh Day Adventist church, Dr Joseph
Sserwadda, the head of Pentecostal churches, Prof. Peter Matovu, the Orthodox vicar general of the
Orthodox and Sheikh Ali Mohammed, representing the mufti, however, made it clear that they support
the Bill, because "homosexuality is an evil and is anti-godly".
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Document Date: 29 Oct 2009
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US slams Uganda's new anti-gay bill - by AFP, www.google.com on 10/29/09: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jEEJXoeBrTi17hexzYZqvmPgpPxg
"If adopted, a bill further criminalising homosexuality would constitute a significant step backwards for the protection of human rights in Uganda," the embassy's public affairs officer Joann Lockard said in an email.
Buturo balked at the notion that the proposed bill -- which, among other things, would criminalise any public discussion of homosexuality and could penalise an individual who knowingly rented property to a homosexual -- constituted a human rights violation.
Homosexuality -- or "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" as it is currently described in existing laws -- is already illegal in Uganda and can be punished with life imprisonment."
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Document Date: 29 Oct 2009
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Rights Groups Challenge Uganda's New Same-Sex Proposal - By Cary A. Johnson, IGLHRC on 10/17/09
"Executive director Cary Alan Johnson of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) says the law?s discriminative and harsh punitive features represent a last-ditch effort by anti-gay and evangelical groups to restrict personal freedoms in Uganda and in other African countries, and he hopes the rights groups can prevent the bill?s passage."
"Under existing laws, Uganda police may arbitrarily arrest citizens suspected of having consensual sex with partners of the same gender. But a new provision that would forbid organizers from promoting homosexuality places curbs on publishing information and providing funds and meeting facilities for activities. The draft bill also advocates imposing the death penalty in cases it considers to be ?aggravated homosexuality.? Rights commission executive director Johnson says the harsh penalties are a throwback to colonial times when controlling powers used such restrictions to stifle Africans? personal freedoms."
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Document Date: 17 Oct 2009
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Uganda Action Alert: Dismiss the Anti-Homosexuality Bill - IGLHRC 10/16/09: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/print/989.html
"The Issue:
The Ugandan Parliament is now considering a homophobic law that would reaffirm penalties for homosexuality and criminalize the "promotion of homosexuality." The Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 targets lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans, their defenders and anyone else who fails to report them to the authorities whether they are inside or outside of Uganda. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG) are calling for the swift dismissal of the bill and human rights protections for all Ugandans, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity."
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Document Date: 16 Oct 2009
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Uganda MP urges death for gay sex - by news.bbc.co.uk on 10/15/09: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8308912.stm
"A Ugandan MP has proposed creating an offence of "aggravated homosexuality" to be punishable by death."
Ruling party MP David Bahati wants the death penalty for those having gay sex with disabled people, under-18s or when the accused is HIV-positive.
Homosexual acts are already illegal, but the Anti-Homosexuality Bill proposes new offences and urges the toughening of existing penalties. "
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Document Date: 15 Oct 2009
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Uganda: "Anti-Homosexuality" Bill Threatens Liberties and Human Rights Defenders- Proposed Provisions Illegal, Ominous, and Unnecessary - By HRW on 10/15/09
?This bill is a blow to the progress of democracy in Uganda,? said David Kato of Sexual Minorities Uganda. ?It goes against the inclusive spirit necessary for our economic as well as political development. Its spirit is profoundly undemocratic and un-African.?
"In an attack on the freedom of expression, a new, wide-ranging provision would forbid the ?promotion of homosexuality? ? including publishing information or providing funds, premises for activities, or other resources. Conviction could result in up to seven years in prison."
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Document Date: 15 Oct 2009
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Uganda: Homosexuality blamed for HIV/Aids spread in prisons- By Isaac Khisa & Christine Katende, www.monitor.co.ug on 10/01/09: http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Homosexuality_blamed_for_HIV_Aids_spread_in_prisons_printer.shtml
"Homosexuality has been identified as one of the factors that have contributed to high HIV/Aids prevalence among male inmates."
This was revealed during an advocacy and policy dialogue meeting on prisons health services on HIV/Aids and Tuberculosis in Kampala yesterday. The Commissioner General, Dr Johnson Byabashaija, attributed the high rate among male inmates to homosexuality. He however, said many inmates are coerced into homosexuality.
"The country has 1.5million people living with HIV/Aids but only 17,5000 receive ARV treatment."
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Document Date: 1 Oct 2009
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Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill 09/25/09: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:m72bRC8do9AJ:www.chr.up.ac.za/press%2520releases/Bill%2520No%252018%2520Anti%2520Homosexuality%2520Bill%25202009.pdf+the+uganda+gazette+No+47+25th+september+2009&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
By Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
London, UK - 11 January 2010
Below is a full and comprehensive briefing on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which is currently before the Ugandan Parliament and which proposes the death penalty for certain consenting homosexual acts.
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Document Date: 25 Sep 2009
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Uganda: ANTI-GAY TRIO DECLARES WAR ON HOMOSEXUALS - by www.mask.org.za , By Mask Admin - on 06/05/09: http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=uganda&id=2155
"UGANDA ? 05 June 2009: The fight against gay church leaders is on in Uganda, led by top anti-gay Pastors Martin Sempa, Solomon Male and Michael Kyazze."
They are also planning to organize an anti-homo crusade at Lugogo that will take 40 days of fasting and prayer.
?We are going to wear black clothes to show our grief for the nation. We will pray to God to heal the nation of child sacrifice and homosexuality", Sempa said."
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Document Date: 5 Jun 2009
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Uganda: Gay asylum seeker John Bosco Nyombi wins right to stay in UK - By By Staff Writer, www.pinknews.co.uk/ on 06/01/09: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12668.html
"Ugandan gay asylum seeker John Bosco Nyombi has finally won asylum in the UK after an eight-year campaign.
Nyombi arrived in Britain in 2001 after fearing for his safety in Uganda, where gays can be imprisoned for life or even killed."
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Document Date: 1 Jun 2009
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Uganda: Exporting Homophobia - by Cary Johnson IGLHRC on 05/23/09 on: http://www.commondreams.org/print/42489
"Emboldened by the Americans' vilification of gay people, the seminar's Ugandan host organization, Family Life Network, immediately instigated a witch-hunt. The group mobilized "ex-gays" to appear on television and radio and announce the names, addresses and places of employment of supposed gays and lesbians in Uganda. The effects have been immediate and devastating. At least five people have been arrested and charged with "having carnal knowledge against the order of nature." Violent attacks of anyone suspected of being gay are occurring on the streets of Kampala with more frequency and intensity. Local tabloids, such as The Red Pepper have jumped into the fray by printing lists of men and women accused of being gay and lesbian."
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Document Date: 23 May 2009
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Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition on the situation in Uganda - 05/15/09 sent by Innokenty Grekov, Program Assistant - Fighting Discrimination - Human Rirhgts First -http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/pdf/090515-HRD-uganda-statement.pdf
"The state?s discriminatory actions go beyond rhetoric. The police arrested at least five men
on charges related to homosexual conduct. Most have been charged with having ?carnal
knowledge against the order of nature,? and one of the detainees has been charged with
assaulting a minor and aggravated defilement, subject to the death penalty.
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Document Date: 15 May 2009
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Homosexuality threat to Ugandans- activists- Daily Monitor-by Mercy Nalungo on 04/24/09: http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Homosexuality_threat_to_Ugandans_activists_83727.shtml
?Activists against homosexuality in Uganda stormed parliament on Tuesday protesting against the practice and demanded a probe into the practice in the country.
The activists who were holding banners denouncing the activity were led by the Family Life Network in conjunction with religious leaders.
The groups led by the Executive Director of Family Life Network, Mr Stephen Langa while handing over their petition to the Deputy Speaker,Ms Rebecca Kadaga said the Parliamentary select committee should also assess the extent of the damage homosexuality has caused to children and Ugandans.?
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Document Date: 24 Apr 2009
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Uganda: Unicef, Amnesty Promote Homos - Published on April 15, 2009 on allafrica.com : http://allafrica.com/stories/200904160005.html
""Those behind this abnormal, unhealthy, unnatural as well as illegal lifestyle have argued that legalising homosexuality would be a human right and in defence of freedom," he said."
"He said the Government was unequivocally against homosexuality, which is why it does not give homosexuals rights conferred to married persons."
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Document Date: 15 Apr 2009
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Uganda: Eight denounce homosexuality -By Moses Mulondo www.newvision.co.ug - 03/25/09
EIGHT more men yesterday confessed involvement in homosexuality and gay activities, which they said they had abandoned. Speaking to journalists at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala, the youthful men described homosexuality as abnormal and anti-Christian, and declared war against it.
Addressing the press conference, Family Life Network chief Stephen Langa read a statement from parents and concerned citizens, urging the Government to establish a probe to assess the prevalence of homosexuality in Uganda.
?We want a confidential platform to be provided for abused children to speak out without being stigmatised,? the parents suggested.
Langa said his group would move around the country convincing parents to sign a petition to be handed to the President and Parliament on April 7. He said the petition will demand urgent steps to be taken against homosexuality in Uganda.
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Document Date: 25 Mar 2009
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Uganda: The U.S. Religious Right Exports Homophobia to Africa - IGLHRC 03/04/09
(New York, March 4)- The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) condemned a seminar designed to attack lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans under the cloak of religion. The 3-day seminar in Kampala, which opens Thursday, March 5, features an array of U.S. speakers known for their efforts to dehumanize LGBT people and for their belief that homosexuality can be "cured." The speakers include Scott Lively, Don Schmierer, and Caleb Lee Brundidge?leading voices in the crusade by religious extremists to roll back basic human rights for LGBT people in the United States. Brundidge is affiliated with Extreme Prophetic Ministry in Phoenix, Arizona. Schmierer is on the board of the so-called "ex-gay" organization Exodus International. Lively is well known for his belief that the Nazi Holocaust never happened.
In response to this ongoing pattern of violence and abuse, SMUG launched its Let Us Live in Peace campaign, aimed at decreasing violence against LGBT Ugandans. The campaign was launched shortly after human rights defenders Victor Mukasa and Oyo Yvonne filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General related to an illegal raid on Mukasa's home. The plaintiffs won their case in December 2008?a landmark victory by organizers in a country that still punishes homosexuality by life in prison and has repeatedly made efforts to silence human rights leaders. FLN organizers cite this victory in the promotional materials for the seminar, saying that it shows that a "well organized homosexual machinery" is taking over Uganda, "wreaking havoc in individuals, families and the society."
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Document Date: 4 Mar 2009
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Uganda: UN 'spreading homosexuality' - www.news24.com - 03/04/09
Kampala - Ugandan Ethics Minister James Nsaba Buturo alleged on Friday that some United Nations member states were engaged in a covert campaign to spread homosexuality around the world.
Buturo spoke on Thursday to Uganda's UN ambassador and reminded him of the country's position that homosexuality is "unnatural, abnormal, illegal, dangerous, and dirty".
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Document Date: 3 Mar 2009
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Uganda: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2008 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 02/24/09 : http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119030.htm
"Academic Freedom and Cultural Events
In May the Media Council blocked the screening of two films--Watermelon Woman and Rag Tag--at a film festival in Kampala for perceived promotion of homosexuality.
Other Societal Abuses and Discrimination
Homosexuals faced discrimination and legal restrictions. It is illegal for homosexuals to engage in sexual acts, based on a legal provision that criminalizes "carnal acts against the order of nature" with a penalty of life imprisonment, although no homosexual has been charged under the law. Public resentment of homosexuality sparked significant public debate during the year. The government took a strong position against the practice. The local NGO SMUG protested alleged police harassment of several members for their vocal stand against sexual discrimination."
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Document Date: 25 Feb 2009
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Ugandan gay activists win lawsuit - Rex Wockner International News # 766- 12/29/08
"It was my dream that justice would come and it has come," Mukasa said
after the ruling. "And it is my bigger dream that justice will come to
every human being in Uganda who is oppressed. This does not mark the
end. The struggle continues until every human being is free."
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Document Date: 29 Dec 2008
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Gays welcome Uganda arrest payout- news.bbc.co.uk- 12/23/08
A Ugandan judge has awarded two women $7,000 (£4,700), saying their rights were infringed when they were arrested on suspicion of being lesbians in 2005.
The case is believed to be the first time homosexuals have taken the police to court in Uganda, where they face much discrimination.
Activists say the gay community numbers about 500,000, from a population of some 31 million.
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Document Date: 23 Dec 2008
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Gays are "recruiting" claims Ugandan paper- By Styaff writer, http://www.pinknews.co.uk- 10/21/08
The gay community in Uganda is recruiting new members, according to a leading newspaper in the East African nation.
"Recruitment is reportedly highest in secondary schools and in prisons," reports The Independent.
At a recent press conference a government minister said there would be more police operations against the gay community.
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Document Date: 21 Oct 2008
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Uganda fights to keep straight, but money stands in the way- By John Njoroge 10/20/08
Homosexuality is keeping Uganda in the news. Human Rights Watch, the International Aids Society and other gay rights organisations have blacklisted Uganda as insensitive to homosexuals and are making a lot of noise about it. Clearly, they have made some progress. The word that was taboo is now an openly talked about subject in some places. Ironically, the church, the very institution that is fiercely against homosexuality, is the very one bringing it into the limelight.
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Document Date: 20 Oct 2008
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Ugandan lesbian granted asylum in UK- 10/20/08
A judge has ruled that a lesbian woman from Uganda may remain in the UK.
Prossy Kakooza, 26, fled her homeland after her family found her in bed with her partner and marched both women naked to the police station where Ms Kakooza was raped and tortured by police officers.
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Document Date: 20 Oct 2008
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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/
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The editor of a website that documents the violence and intimidation suffered by the gay community in Uganda has won a prestigious prize.
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.
Kizza Musinguzi, editor of gayrightsuganda.org, and an ayslum seeker in the UK, is the winner this year.
Gayrightsuganda.org "documents the organised campaign of violent religious and state-sponsored homophobia sweeping the strategic African nation," saidILGCN.
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Document Date: 8 Oct 2008
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Uganda to beef up homosexuality laws - Published on the web by Cape Argus - 10/05/08
The Ugandan government said yesterday it would strengthen anti-gay laws and step up police operations against homosexuals amid concern over the "mushrooming" number of gays and lesbians in the East African nation.
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Document Date: 5 Oct 2008
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Uganda vows crackdown on gays- www.news24.com- 10/04/08
Kampala - The Ugandan government said on Saturday it would strengthen anti-gay laws and step up police operations against homosexuals amid concern over the "mushrooming" number of gays and lesbians in the East African nation.
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Document Date: 4 Oct 2008
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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
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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.
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.
Mulawa said he'll be arrested at the airport and taken to jail on arrival in Kampala.
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Document Date: 30 Sep 2008
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Police arrest Ugandan activists- Rex Wockner International News # 753- 09/29/08
Georgina Oundo and Brenda Kiiza were taken into custody at Oundo's home
in the village of Nabweru near Kampala and held at the Nabweru Police
Post for a week.
They were beaten, kicked, denied food and urged to reveal names and
addresses of other gay activists, IGLHRC said. Police also copied the
activists' cell-phone address books, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Document Date: 29 Sep 2008
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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
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Two human rights advocates in Uganda were held for a week without charges after police accused them of "recruiting homosexuals."
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."
They were held seven days without being brought before a judge or having charges laid against them.
"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.
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Document Date: 26 Sep 2008
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Uganda: AI action closed - Transgender LGBT human rights defenders arrested and at risk of torture or ill-treatment-Further Information on UA 260/08 (AFR 59/007/2008) ? Fear of arbitrary detention/ torture and other ill-treatment- AI 09/23/08
UGANDA
Oundo George]
Kiiiza Brenda] Transgender LGBT Human Rights Defenders
On 17 September, Oundo George and Kiiza Brenda, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights defenders were released after a week in police detention at Nabweru Police Post.They were released on bond, after being charged for ?involvement in indecent practices?. They are required to report to the police post on Wednesday 24 September.
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Document Date: 23 Sep 2008
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Uganda: Protect Sexual Rights Activists- Ensure Due Process for All Citizens- HRW 09/20/08
In violation of Ugandan law, the police held the activists, George ?Georgina? Oundo and ?Brenda? Kiiza for seven days, without bringing them before a judge or bringing charges against them. The two organizations called on Ugandan authorities to clear their police files and respect the basic freedoms of all Ugandans regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Document Date: 20 Sep 2008
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Uganda: Action Alert-Demand An End To Official Harassment of LGBT Activists- IGLHRC- 09/19/08
SUMMARY
In what appears to be an all-out effort to silence the sexual rights movement in Uganda, police have again arrested high profile members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, this time two male-to-female transgender gay men - Georgina (aka) Oundo George and Brenda (aka Kiiza). According to Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG), two men who identified themselves as police officers, but were not in the customary Ugandan Police uniform arrested both men at the home of Georgina on Wednesday September 10, 2008.
Georgina and Brenda were held at Nabweru Police Post for a full week without access to lawyers or to bail. They were never brought before a judge, even though Article 3.9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states that, "anyone arrested or detained on a criminal charge shall be brought promptly before a judge." Article 23 of the Ugandan Constitution requires that an arrested person must appear before a judge within 48 hours of arrest.
Brenda and Georgina report being beaten, kicked and hit with batons around the legs and ankles during their detention as interrogators demanded that they provide information about the names and addresses of other LGBT activists. Brenda and Georgina were finally released on September 17, 2008, but have been required to report regularly to the police station. They have been accused of "spreading homosexuality," though no such crime exists under Ugandan law. "Carnal knowledge against the order of nature" is punishable by up to life imprisonment in Uganda.
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Document Date: 18 Sep 2008
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AI Index: AFR 59/007/2008- Uganda: Fear of torture or ill-treatment/medical concern/prisoners of conscience- AI 09/15/08
Oundo George ] Transgender LGBT human rights defenders
Kiiza ]
On 10 September lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights defenders, Oundo George and Kiiza were arrested in the village of Nabweru, Wakiso district, outside the capital city Kampala. They are currently detained without charge at Nabweru Police Post and have not been brought before a court within the constitutional limit of 48 hours.
According to a spiritual advisor who had access to Oundo George in police custody, both are to be charged with attempt to recruiting people into homosexuality, in spite of this not being a crime under Ugandan law. Amnesty International considers both Oundo George and Kiiza to be prisoners of conscience, arrested solely for their gender identity.
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Document Date: 15 Sep 2008
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Gay man refuses deportation to Uganda - By Rachel Charman - 09/15/08
John "Bosco" Nyombi, 38, was due to be deported back to Uganda, where he fears he will be persecuted on the grounds of his sexuality.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, and gays caught by the police can face a life sentence in prison.
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Document Date: 15 Sep 2008
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UGANDA:TWO GAY MEN ARRESTED AND DETAINED BY POLICE-by Frank Mugisha, Sexual Minorities Uganda- SMUG- 09/14/08
According to area residents of Nansana a Kampala suburb, two gentle men who identified them selves as Police but were not in the customary Ugandan Police uniform went to the home of Oundo George (Georgina) and arrested Him together with Kiiza 'aka' Brenda both MTF(Male to female transgender gay men) on Wednesday the 10th of September.2008.
The area residents in a phone call with David Kato - board member of SMUG,told him that these men were also looking for David Kato who they described as the LGBTI leader in that area. They further confirmed that these men as they searched for George Oudo's home they were asking for the identity of men who look or act like women (Stereo type transgender men). The resident who provided us with this information continued to say that it was a young girl who directed the men to Oundo George's home, and that when they got to Oundo George's home they identified them selves with
Identity cards and handcuffed the two gay men, they also took gay literature that was in the house the two gay men were driven off in a tinted salon car.
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Document Date: 14 Sep 2008
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Uganda: Ssempa rewarded for anti-gay crusade- By Joyce Namutebi, www.newvision.co.ug- 09/14/08
He said homosexuality was one way of making the world extinct.
?When men marry each other and women marry women, clans and tribes become extinct,? Mitala noted.
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Document Date: 14 Sep 2008
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Ugandan AIDS Commission Chief says homosexuality must be stamped out in schools - By Rachel Charman - 08/22/08
Dr Kihumuro Apuuli, the Ugandan AIDS Commission Chief, has warned the education ministry of that country that homosexuality is "rife" in schools.
Dr Apuuli also urged the education ministry to stamp out homosexuality, and said that parents and guardians must aid them in this, The New Vision reports.
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Document Date: 22 Aug 2008
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Ugandan police torture gay activist- Rex Wockner International News # 745- 08/04/08
On July 25, Ugandan police arrested and tortured a key Ugandan gay
activist -- one of three people who had been arrested on June 3 for
protesting inside the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting in the
nation's capital, Kampala.
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Document Date: 4 Aug 2008
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Uganda Government News: Uganda grapples with homosexual rights issues- www.ugpulse.com/ 07/31/08
As the government of Uganda comes under increasing pressure to stop the spread of whimsicality in the country, Human Rights Watch has called upon the government of Uganda to investigate the alleged detaining and torture of a gay rights activist on trial for protesting against discrimination last month.
Scott Long, HRW's director for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Programme accuses the Uganda government of promoting homophobia against people believed to be gay, instead of protecting all its citizens against HIV/AIDS.
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Document Date: 31 Jul 2008
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Uganda: Torture Threat for HIV/AIDS Activists - Human Rights Watch - 07/29/08
The abduction and torture of a Ugandan HIV/AIDS activist who faces trial for holding a peaceful protest reveals the danger to those who challenge the government's policies, Human Rights Watch, and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders said today. The three human rights organizations (the Observatory is a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture and the International Federation of Human Rights), called on the Ugandan authorities to investigate the abduction and torture and sanction those responsible. They also urged that the charges against all three human rights defenders on trial for the protest be dropped.
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Document Date: 29 Jul 2008
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Action Alert: Uganda: Condemn the Arrest and Torture of LGBT Human Rights Defender- IGLHRC 07/28/08
Summary
On July 25, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., Ugandan police arrested and tortured a key Ugandan human rights activist--one of three who had been detained slightly more than a month ago while peacefully demonstrating for access to HIV services. Usaam Mukwaaya was on his way back from Friday prayers when he was stopped by a police patrol car and taken off a motorbike taxi that he had hired to transport him. Three men in police uniform and a fourth in civilian attire put Mukwaaya in the patrol car. He was driven to a building where he was led through a dark hall to an interrogation room, and aggressively questioned about the Ugandan LGBT movement. Mukwaaya was cut around the hands and tortured with a machine that applies extreme pressure to the body, preventing breathing and causing severe pain.
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2008
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Action Alert: Uganda: Condemn the Arrest and Torture of LGBT Human Rights Defender- IGLHRC 07/28/08
Summary
On July 25, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., Ugandan police arrested and tortured a key Ugandan human rights activist--one of three who had been detained slightly more than a month ago while peacefully demonstrating for access to HIV services. Usaam Mukwaaya was on his way back from Friday prayers when he was stopped by a police patrol car and taken off a motorbike taxi that he had hired to transport him. Three men in police uniform and a fourth in civilian attire put Mukwaaya in the patrol car. He was driven to a building where he was led through a dark hall to an interrogation room, and aggressively questioned about the Ugandan LGBT movement. Mukwaaya was cut around the hands and tortured with a machine that applies extreme pressure to the body, preventing breathing and causing severe pain.
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2008
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Action Alert: Uganda: Condemn the Arrest and Torture of LGBT Human Rights Defender- IGLHRC 07/28/08
Summary
On July 25, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., Ugandan police arrested and tortured a key Ugandan human rights activist--one of three who had been detained slightly more than a month ago while peacefully demonstrating for access to HIV services. Usaam Mukwaaya was on his way back from Friday prayers when he was stopped by a police patrol car and taken off a motorbike taxi that he had hired to transport him. Three men in police uniform and a fourth in civilian attire put Mukwaaya in the patrol car. He was driven to a building where he was led through a dark hall to an interrogation room, and aggressively questioned about the Ugandan LGBT movement. Mukwaaya was cut around the hands and tortured with a machine that applies extreme pressure to the body, preventing breathing and causing severe pain.
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2008
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Concern for missing Ugandan gay rights activist - By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk - 07/28/08
One of three people who demonstrated at an AIDS international conference in Uganda has disappeared.
Usaam Auf Mukwaya was arrested at the HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting last month.
Their protest was sparked when the head of Uganda's AIDS commission said that gay people are driving up the number of infections in the country, but would not be targeted with prevention work.
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2008
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Action Alert: Uganda: Condemn the Arrest and Torture of LGBT Human Rights Defender- IGLHRC 07/28/08
Summary
On July 25, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., Ugandan police arrested and tortured a key Ugandan human rights activist--one of three who had been detained slightly more than a month ago while peacefully demonstrating for access to HIV services. Usaam Mukwaaya was on his way back from Friday prayers when he was stopped by a police patrol car and taken off a motorbike taxi that he had hired to transport him. Three men in police uniform and a fourth in civilian attire put Mukwaaya in the patrol car. He was driven to a building where he was led through a dark hall to an interrogation room, and aggressively questioned about the Ugandan LGBT movement. Mukwaaya was cut around the hands and tortured with a machine that applies extreme pressure to the body, preventing breathing and causing severe pain.
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2008
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Action Alert: Uganda: Condemn the Arrest and Torture of LGBT Human Rights Defender- IGLHRC 07/28/08
Summary
On July 25, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., Ugandan police arrested and tortured a key Ugandan human rights activist--one of three who had been detained slightly more than a month ago while peacefully demonstrating for access to HIV services. Usaam Mukwaaya was on his way back from Friday prayers when he was stopped by a police patrol car and taken off a motorbike taxi that he had hired to transport him. Three men in police uniform and a fourth in civilian attire put Mukwaaya in the patrol car. He was driven to a building where he was led through a dark hall to an interrogation room, and aggressively questioned about the Ugandan LGBT movement. Mukwaaya was cut around the hands and tortured with a machine that applies extreme pressure to the body, preventing breathing and causing severe pain.
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2008
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Ugandan police accused of torturing gay activist- By Tony Grew www.pinknews.co.uk/- 07/28/08
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2008
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Uganda: rights body attacks uganda over gay ban- by Grace Matsiko www.mask.org.za 07/26/05
July 26, 2005: Kampala - The Human Rights Watch (HRW), a global human rights body has attacked Uganda for proposing a law banning same sex marriage saying it is deepening repression.
"In voting for a constitutional amendment to criminalise marriage between persons of the same sex, Uganda's Parliament has struck a gratuitous blow for prejudice and against basic human rights", the HRW said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday.
Same-sex sexual relations are criminalised in Uganda under a sodomy law.
The law was strengthened in 1990. Section 140 of the Penal Code (PC) criminalises "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
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Document Date: 26 Jul 2008
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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/
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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.
Yoweri Museveni said the purpose of life was to create children and that homosexuality was a "negative foreign culture."
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.
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Document Date: 18 Jul 2008
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Uganda: Don't ignore homosexuals- by Paul Semugoma, New Vision 07/06/05
Recommendations
We cannot keep marginalising them in the fight against HIV because they are part of us. We need to know their HIV prevention needs and constraints. They lack information and basic prevention materials like lubricants and dental dams.
There is a need to correct these deficits to devise innovative programmes for them because they interact with society. Any effort to stop an extra transmition benefits all Ugandans.
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Document Date: 6 Jul 2008
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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
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ep closer to her goal for asylum in the UK after a senior immigration judge dismissed the previous tribunal as a ?mess.?
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.
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.
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Document Date: 4 Jul 2008
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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
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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.
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.
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."
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Document Date: 3 Jul 2008
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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
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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.
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.
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Document Date: 19 Jun 2008
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Letter to the Ugandan Authorities Regarding Recent Arrest of LGBT Activists - Human Rights Watch - 06/11/08
Honorable Dr. Makubuya,
On behalf of Human Rights Watch, I write to express our deep concern over the recent arrests and charges filed against Onziema Patience, Valentine Kalende, and Usaam Mukwaaya-three human rights activists-supporting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities in Uganda during a peaceful demonstration in Kampala. We urge you to ensure that the charges against them are dropped.
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Document Date: 11 Jun 2008
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Uganda: Drop Charges Against Sexual Rights Activists - Human Rights Watch - 06/10/08
The arrest of three sexual rights activists during a peaceful demonstration to raise awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues shows the Ugandan government's determination to enforce silence around sexuality and HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Minister of Justice and Attorney General Edward Kiddu Makubuya.
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Document Date: 10 Jun 2008
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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/
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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.
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Document Date: 10 Jun 2008
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Uganda: LGBT Arrested at International HIV/AIDS Meeting- Human Rights Groups Demand Immediate Release- IGLHRC 06/05/08
Media Contact:
Frank Mugisha, SMUG, +256 772 616 062
Victor Juliet Mukasa, IGLHRC, +27 762 544 951
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) today condemned the arrests of three Ugandan LGBT activists and called for their immediate and unconditional release. The three -- Onziema Patience, (an FTM transgender, 28), Valentine Kalende (female, age 27) and Auf (male, age 26) -- were arrested yesterday morning by the Uganda Police Force at the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting currently taking place in Kampala, Uganda. Along with other LGBT and HIV and AIDS activists, they were peacefully protesting statements made by a Ugandan government official that no funds would be directed toward HIV programs targeting men who have sex with men. SMUG and IGLHRC have fears for the safety of the three activists.
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Document Date: 5 Jun 2008
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Uganda: Orombi Wants Pro-Gay Bishops to Apologize-By Anne Mugisa And Angella Asiimire - allAfrica.com 06/05/08
Kampala- PRO-GAY bishops must apologise and renounce their support for sexual perversion in order to reunite the Church. The Archbishop of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, made the appeal on Wednesday, while addressing journalists at the provincial headquarters in Namirembe, Kampala.
He was announcing the departure of a team of Church of Uganda bishops to the Anglican Communion scheduled for June 22-29 in Jerusalem.
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Document Date: 5 Jun 2008
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Ugandan police arrest gay protestors at AIDS conference- www.monstersandcritics.com 06/04/08
Kampala - Ugandan Police arrested a group of gay activists demanding the right to HIV/AIDS treatment at an international AIDS conference in Kampala on Wednesday.
Hundreds of activists disrupted the morning plenary session of the conference, calling for rights, recognition and access to services and funds extended to groups involved in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Document Date: 4 Jun 2008
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Uganda: Amnesty International condemns attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people - AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - 06/04/08
Amnesty International is concerned at continuing harassment and attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights defenders in Uganda, and today called on the Government of Uganda to ensure the safety of LGBT human rights defenders in Uganda and to end the harassment of LGBT people by Ugandan police officers.
On 4 June 2008, three LGBT human rights defenders were arbitrarily arrested after a group of seven activists from Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) distributed a press release to people attending the HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting at the Imperial Royal Hotel in Kampala. The press release and an accompanying report outlined their organisation's call for HIV prevention programmes for the LGBT community in Uganda.
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Document Date: 4 Jun 2008
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Uganda: Use Funds Properly-AIDS Activists-By New Vision-06/04/08-http://allafrica.com/stories/200806050100.html
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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.
They also want policy makers to cater for the vulnerable groups so as to win the war against the pandemic.
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.
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Document Date: 4 Jun 2008
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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/
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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.
'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.
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.
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Document Date: 4 Jun 2008
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Uganda shuns gays in anti-HIV drive-By Frank Nyakairu - http://africa.reuters.com 06/02/08
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's government said on Monday it would not focus any of its HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes on outlawed homosexuals because the east African country is short of funds.
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Document Date: 2 Jun 2008
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Uganda: Beaten and Tortured Lesbian Ugandan woman seeks asyuim in UK-By LGF News Team-04/25/08-http://www.lgf.org.uk/beaten-and-tortured-lesbian-ugandan-woman-seeks-asylum-in-uk/
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Uganda in line with many other African countries has outlawed homosexuality. Ms Kakooza was handed over to Ugandan police by her brother when he found her with her girlfriend of five years.
She was then subjected to multiple rapes and branded with red hot meat skewers on her thighs by drunken police officers.
She said: 'I'm still receiving counselling at a rape crisis centre. 'I have nightmares every night and I don't think I will ever get over what happened to me.'
Ms Kakooza, who is a University graduate, was eventually rescued and smuggled from the country by a friend who bribed guards to release her.
On arriving in the UK she was seen at a medical centre where doctors were shocked by her horrific injuries and called the police.
She said: 'I was taken to hospital and tested for Hepatitis B and Aids. 'Thankfully, I'm in the clear but it was a worrying time.'
She added: 'I really want stay in this country and work. 'I have a degree in English Literature and I would love to be able to teach.'
Ms Kakooza said that she often thinks of her girlfriend who was also jailed.
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Document Date: 25 Apr 2008
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Uganda-Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2007-3/11/08
Other Societal Abuses and Discrimination
Homosexuals faced widespread discrimination and legal restrictions. It is illegal for homosexuals to engage in sexual acts, based on a legal provision that criminalizes "carnal acts against the order of nature" with a penalty of life imprisonment.
Public resentment against homosexuality sparked demonstrations and significant public debate during the year. The government took a strong position against the practice. A local NGO, Sexual Minorities in Uganda, protested several members' alleged harassment by police for their vocal stand against sexual discrimination.
On September 10, the Red Pepper tabloid published a list of 40 first names of alleged homosexual men residing in Kampala. There were no confirmed reports of arrests, as originally reported, based on a similar list published by the same tabloid in August 2006.
International and local NGOs, in cooperation with the government, sponsored public awareness campaigns that aimed to eliminate the stigma of HIV/AIDS. Counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS was free and available at health centers and local NGOs across the country. Counselors encouraged patients to be tested with their partners and family so that they all received information about living with HIV/AIDS. Persons living with HIV/AIDS formed support groups to promote awareness in their communities.
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Document Date: 11 Mar 2008
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"No One Should Have to Live in Fear Simply because of Who They Are" : Letter from Religious Leaders to the Ugandan Government - Human Rights Watch - 02/22/08
Dear President Museveni,
As leaders of diverse religious communities, we call on you to stop the verbal assaults and legal attacks of your government on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) people. All religious traditions demand that we care for the neighbor and the oppressed among us and that we uphold the dignity of every person. No one should have to live in fear simply because of who they are. As a moral leader we know that you do not wish to see Uganda citizens suffer unnecessarily, and we are therefore asking you to call an end to the witch hunt against the most vulnerable in your community.
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Document Date: 22 Feb 2008
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Religious Leaders Call on Government of Uganda to Protect the Rights of Gays and Lesbians - Human Rights Watch - 02/15/08
A coalition of 120 religious leaders has called on the government of Uganda to protect the human rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) citizens in the East African nation.
In a letter to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, the faith leaders call for an end to government sanctioned verbal assaults and legal attacks that abridge the human rights of LGBT people.
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Document Date: 15 Feb 2008
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Uganda: Maroon the Gays-By New Internationalist-01/30/08-http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2008/01/01/sexualminorities/
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Document Date: 30 Jan 2008
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Homosexuality: a Challenge to Christianity- AllAfrica.com, The Monitor (Kampala) 1/4/08
Homosexuality is an immoral sexual act which should be shunned by all people irrespective of their sex, calibre and tribe. Regarding homosexual acts, the traditional and exclusive teaching of the Church is condemnatory, seeing such acts as morally wrong.
In the life of homosexual acts as well as all other expressions of wrongful sexual expression such as fornication, adultery, prostitution, incest, bestiality, masturbation etc.
The Orthodox Church teaches that the only proper place for the exercise of sexual function is Church marriage. This therefore implies that the credence from the sources of faith, without exception, considers homosexual acts as evil.
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Document Date: 4 Jan 2008
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Uganda: Nabulwala v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit 3/21/07
Title Nabulwala v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
Publisher United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Country Uganda
Publication Date 21 March 2007
Citation / Document Symbol No. 05-4128
Cite as Nabulwala v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General. No. 05-4128. United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. 21 March 2007. Online. UNHCR Refworld, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=4603b7152 [accessed 20 December 2007]
Comments Submitted: 20 October 2006; Filed: 21 March 2007. Olivia Nabulwala challenges the final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying her claim for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. Having jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D), this court grants the petition and remands.
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Document Date: 1 Jan 2008
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Uganda's gays left out of HIV/AIDS strategy- Afrol News 03/20/06
Homosexuality carries a huge stigma in conservative Uganda, and a conviction for sodomy - deemed "an act against the order of nature" - carries a life sentence in jail.
Most Ugandans prefer to pretend sexual minorities do not exist at all, a belief that permeates all levels of society, regardless of class or level of education.
A deadly consequence of denying that homosexuality exists in Uganda is that the national HIV/AIDS programme makes no provision for sexual minorities, despite scientific evidence that gay men are more susceptible to HIV transmission than any other group.
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Document Date: 1 Jan 2008
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Uganda: Homosexuals, Lesbians Erode National Decency- allafrica.com- By J.s. Mayanja-Nkangi 12/16/07
UGANDA is experiencing an internationally orchestrated crescendo of demands for "rights" by the homosexual fraternity: male, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transvestite. Essentially, these "rights" reduce to only one; the absolute, non-negotiable, "right" to enjoy sexual pleasure man with man, woman with woman; with the bisexual exploiting the pleasures of both worlds and the trans gender coveting and securing the sexual pleasures which both God and his or her heterosexual parents did not give him or her.
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Document Date: 16 Dec 2007
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Uganda: Unacceptable Police Brutality Towards African LGBT People During CHOGM 2007 in Uganda - IGLHRC 12/07/07
We kindly address you today to express our deep concern about the Ugandan police brutality towards LGBTI people during the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting) 2007.
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Document Date: 7 Dec 2007
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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/
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Uganda is experiencing an internationally orchestrated Crescendo of demands for ?rights? by the homosexual fraternity: male, lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transvestite:
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.
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Document Date: 28 Nov 2007
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Uganda: Iguru opposes condom use, homosexuality-By Daily Monitor-11/28/07-http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/regional-special/Iguru_opposes_condom_use_homosexuality_56334.shtml
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The Omukama of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom is opposed to the use of condoms in the fight against Aids and homosexuality.
Dr Solomon Gafabusa Iguru said condom use promotes immorality.
Condom use is one of the strategies that the government encourages in the fight against HIV/ Aids spread. Others are abstinence and faithfulness.
The national HIV prevalence rate is 6.2 percent.
Iguru was speaking as chief guest during the commissioning of St. Thereza Catholic Parish in Mugarama Sub-county on Sunday. During the function, forty couples received holy matrimony.
"Condoms have encouraged people to become prostitutes" he said.
He said people engage in illicit sex on the premise that condoms protect them from contracting sexually transmitted diseases and attaining unwanted pregnancies.
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Document Date: 28 Nov 2007
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Uganda: Ugandan Gays Refused Space to Speak at CHOGM-By Gay Republic Daily-11/25/07-http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2172&lead=1
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Amakula, a non-LGBT film organisation in Kampala also faced discrimination for showing a film that discussed homosexuality. Amakula showcases African cinema, ?bringing filmmakers together to help create an inspiring and conducive environment for cinema.? The organisation is known for its celebration of African talent, professionalism, human diversity, and creativity. After hosting an LGBT-themed film yesterday at CHOGM that sparked hot debate across the nation, two members of Amakula were thrown out of the People?s Space today. A non-LGBT related percussion group scheduled to perform at CHOGM has been cancelled because its performance was arranged by Amakula. Discrimination against a person because of any God-given attribute, such as sex, race, or sexual orientation, is both against the law in Uganda and a disgrace to humanity. It is love, not hatred that God commands.
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Document Date: 25 Nov 2007
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UGANDA : Gay, Clergy Clash At People's Space - African Veil - 11/23/07
People advocating for the rights of homosexuals and those against the practice are using the People's Space at Hotel Africana in Kampala to air out their views. Drama ensued on Thursday when the Catholic and Anglican clergymen, who were condemning gays, sat next to pro-gay people who were watching a film on homosexuality.
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Document Date: 23 Nov 2007
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Uganda: Anti-gays activists protest as commonwealth summit opens- By Behind the mask-11/23/07-http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=uganda&id=1760
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Scores of anti-gay activists protested in Kampala Friday minutes after Britain's Queen Elizabeth II opened the summit of Commonwealth heads of state. Demonstrators accused western countries of helping to spread the practice on the African continent.
The biennial conference, which is being attended by 48 heads of state and government representatives from the 53-nation club of countries formerly under British rule, will examine the issues of governance, human rights, environment and development.
The Ugandan government allowed officially demonstrations to be held in two places near the city centre. Several groups including the opposition and anti-gay pressure groups have taken part in the peaceful protests.
"Homosexuality is growing in Uganda and Africa in general. Some of our people are thriving on funding from gay activists from western nations," said one organizer of the rally, Pentecostal Pastor Solomon Male.
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Document Date: 23 Nov 2007
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Uganda: Funding homophobia-www.aidsmap.com, 19/10/07- Pukaar January 2008 Issue 60- 10/19/07
In a letter to the Mark Dybul, US Global AIDS Coordinator,
Human Rights Watch, expressed grave concern about ?an expanding
pattern of attacks in Uganda upon the human rights of lesbian, gay
and transgender people?, and highlighted the homophobic activities
of Pastor Martin Ssempa, a member of the First lady?s of Uganda?s
Task Force on AIDS and recipient of PEPFAR prevention HIV
prevention money.
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Document Date: 19 Oct 2007
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Uganda: Uganda Cleric Calls for Annihilation of Gays-By GBMNews-10/19/07-http://www.gbmnews.com/articles/1700/1/Uganda-Cleric-Calls-For-Annihilation-Of-Gays/Page1.html
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Uganda's leading Muslim cleric has proposed to President Yoweri Museveni that gays be rounded up and marooned on an island in Lake Victoria until they die.
Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje told reporters of his plan following a much publicized meeting with Museveni.
"I asked President Museveni to get us an island on Lake Victoria and we take these homosexuals and they die out there," Mubajje told a news conference.
"If they die there then we shall have no more homosexuals in the country."
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Document Date: 19 Oct 2007
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Uganda: Ugandan Muslim: Put Gays on an Island let Them Die- By akinolarepent.com-10/16/07-http://akinolarepent.wordpress.com/category/uganda/
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The leading Muslim cleric in Uganda, Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje, has come up with a novel solution to deal with gay and lesbians speaking up in the country.
He told journalists at a press conference on Friday that he had recommended to the country?s President at a meeting last week that all gay people should be sent into exile on an island in Lake Victoria.
?If they die there then we shall have no more homosexuals in the country,? he added.
There has been rising tension in the country over gay and lesbian rights.
Ugandan law outlaws homosexuality as ?against the order of nature.? Trans people are also targeted by police and regularly subject to abuse and harassment.
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Document Date: 16 Oct 2007
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UGANDA : Mufti wants gays abandoned on islands - African Veil - 10/15/07
The Mufti, Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje wants gays marooned on an island in Lake Victoria until they die. Sheikh Mubajje told journalists on Friday at Old Kampala Mosque that he sold his proposal to President Yoweri Museveni when they met last week at Hotel Africana.
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Document Date: 15 Oct 2007
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Letter to Congressional Caucus about US support for Ugandan homophobia-HRW 10/11/07
Dear Congressmen:
Human Rights Watch is gravely concerned by an expanding pattern of attacks in Uganda upon the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In recent weeks, members of President Yoweri Musevenis government have called for enforcement of the countrys draconian sodomy lawwhich punishes consensual same-sex sexual relations with up to life in prisonand have reportedly threatened to pass new laws extending and expanding the reach of punishment. Such threats are part of a long-standing pattern of harassment and state condemnation of people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.
The resultant atmosphere threatens health as well as human rights. It also threatens to drive further underground populations affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and further to thwart and silence prevention efforts directed at them. These attacks, moreover, come in a context where HIV-prevention efforts that condemn both the use of condoms and the fact of homosexual conduct have apparently been funded by the US government. We therefore urge you:
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Document Date: 11 Oct 2007
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Uganda: Rising Homophobia Threatens HIV Prevention-By Human Rigths Watch-10/11/07-http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/10/10/uganda-rising-homophobia-threatens-hiv-prevention
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As Ugandan officials and the Ugandan media intensify attacks on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, the US government should condemn these threats, and clarify that it does not support using its HIV/AIDS funding to promote homophobia, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to US officials.
?When the US funds abstinence-only programs in Uganda, it tells people that LGBT people?s sexualities are dangerous and must be denied,? said Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. ?Supporting prejudice with cash is an approach with deadly consequences for all.?
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Document Date: 11 Oct 2007
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From All Sides in Uganda, Campaign of Terror - African Veil - 09/13/07
Crises Across Africa, when a daily newspaper unveiled the latest installment of what it bills as its "Weird Sex Investigation," publishing the names and detailed descriptions of 40 men it claimed are gay.
Under the shock headline "HOMO TERROR! We Name and Shame Top Gays in the City," Red Pepper's Sunday, September 9 issue provided details so precise - physical descriptions, residences, places of employment, and the kind of cars they drive - that those targeted, almost all from the capital city of Kampala or it environs, were easily identifiable to their neighbors and co-workers.
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Document Date: 13 Sep 2007
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Discrimination, Violence Against MSM, WSW In Uganda Hindering HIV Prevention, Treatment Efforts, Human Rights Watch Says- www.Medicalnewstoday.com 09/29/07
Human Rights Watch on Thursday in a statement said that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's promotion of homophobia and violence against men who have sex with men, as well as women who have sex with women, is hindering the country's efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, Reuters reports. HRW urged Museveni to repeal a law against sodomy and to end his "long record of harassing" lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (Cawthorne, Reuters, 8/24). In addition, HRW called on the government to integrate sexual orientation and gender identity issues into Uganda's HIV prevention and treatment programs (HRW statement, 8/23).
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Document Date: 29 Aug 2007
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Uganda: Govt wants court to dismiss Gays Case-By The Monitor-08/29/07-http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=uganda&id=1684
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Court should dismiss the case filed by two gay activists seeking protection of their rights to live freely in society without prejudice. The Attorney General (AG) yesterday asked the High Court to halt the activists' case by allowing him to appeal the procedure used to file it.
The AG's representative, Ms Susan Adong asked court to dismiss the case.
Ms Juliet Victor Mukasa, a 32-year old gay rights activist and Ms Yvonne Ooyo, a 24-year old Kenyan, sued the AG for alleged violation of their right to privacy, personal liberty, and the right to freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment as provided in the Constitution.
However, the AG opposes the suit, saying the aggrieved used a wrong procedure to file the case. Homosexual activities are illegal in Uganda and if court rules in the duo?s favour, it would bring a new legal regime.
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Document Date: 28 Aug 2007
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UGANDA: State homophobia putting gays at HIV risk - activists- by: PlusNews, 08/24/07:http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=73931
NAIROBI, 24 August 2007 (PlusNews) - The Ugandan government's hostility towards the gay community leaves them out of health programmes, putting them at greater risk of HIV, the New York-based lobby group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned this week.
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Document Date: 24 Aug 2007
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Uganda: CRISES ACROSS AFRICA: Gays Under Government Attack in Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda-8/23/07
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Nigeria:
"Now," Johnson continued, "My fear is that these arrests and the way they are being framed by the Nigerian media -- Â as 'sodomy' that occurred at a 'gay wedding' at the hotel when neither happened -- is being used to prepare the field for the re-introduction of the bill."
Cameron:
"The police, who used a mixture of coercion, torture, and promises of liberty, forced the adolescents to admit their homosexuality and sign a transcript of that admission -- Â but also to reveal the identity of the six other gay teenagers, who were then arrested," said Mandeng's report. "The police ambushed those who'd been named -- they called the six boys and got them to come to a rendezvous, and when they showed up they were arrested."
Uganda:
Roubros' Daily Monitor article on the SMUG press conference reported that participants said "police have repeatedly demanded sexual favors or personal bribes in exchange for release from custody. 'This is not protecting Ugandans, said a man wearing a mask and a name card with the alias 'Douglas.' 'This is not protecting Ugandans, it is threatening people for profit. This is certainly not within the law,' exclaimed Douglas."
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Document Date: 23 Aug 2007
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Uganda: 95 Per Cent Citizens Oppose Homosexuality -by Rodney Muhumuza on 08/23/07 on http://allafrica.com: http://allafrica.com/stories/200708230401.html
"Kampala ? THE majority of Ugandans do not support demands by gay activists that homosexuality be decriminalised, according to a new survey.
Some 95 per cent of Ugandans said homosexuality should not be legalised, while a paltry 4 per cent said they support its legalisation, a new Steadman poll shows. And at least 1 per cent said they do not have an opinion on the subject, according to the poll, which was conducted at the end of July."
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Document Date: 23 Aug 2007
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Hundreds in Uganda Denounce Homosexuality in Wide Protest - Nathan Black, Christian Post Reporter - 08/22/07
Hundreds of people in Uganda joined rallies on Tuesday to denounce homosexuality, a practice they fear is growing in the largely conservative African state.
"Homosexuality breaks the laws of God, the laws of nature and the laws of Uganda," said Pastor Martin Ssempa, spokesman for the Interfaith Rainbow Coalition Against Homosexuality, which organized the anti-gay rally in Uganda's capital, according to The Associated Press.
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Document Date: 22 Aug 2007
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Ugandans Hold Anti-Gay Demonstration - by Katy Pownall, Associated Press Write, bahaisonline.net on 08/22/07: http://bahaisonline.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1323&Itemid=2
"Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday, denouncing what they called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportation of an American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply conservative country.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, like in most African states, and carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. "
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Document Date: 22 Aug 2007
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TURING: The case for a boycott - By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk - 08/17/07
The United States, not particularly known for its gay rights record, surprised a good many people in 2005 when its State Department, in its annual report on human rights, included for the first time a list of countries guilty of LGBT abuses.
P. S. In case you were wondering, the ten countries singled out by the US were Uganda, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, UAE, Cameroon, Poland, Nepal and India, in that order.
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Document Date: 17 Aug 2007
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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
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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.
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.
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
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Document Date: 17 Aug 2007
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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
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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.
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Document Date: 16 Aug 2007
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Uganda: Threats of Arrests and State-Sponsored Violence Against Gay Men, Lesbian, Transgenders- by: IGLHRC, 08/11/07:http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/takeaction/resourcecenter/468.html
IGLHRC is concerned for the safety of leaders and supporters of the LGBT community in the East African nation of Uganda, after senior officials went on the public and private radio stations to call for the arrest of leaders of the country?s LGBT. Deputy Attorney General Fred Ruhinde and Minister of Ethics and Integrity Nsaba Butoro, have has called for the arrest and deportation of gays and lesbians and asked private citizens to report ?known homosexuals? to the police.
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Document Date: 11 Aug 2007
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Uganda: Lesbian's asylum case opens immigration door CNN.com 3/30/07
An immigration judge in Minnesota, where she now lives, said he did not doubt Nabulwala had suffered in Uganda because of her sexual orientation. But he ruled that the rape was a "private family mistreatment," and not sponsored or authorized by the government.
However, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the judge used the wrong legal standard, and ordered the case sent back for further proceedings on whether the Ugandan government was unwilling or unable to control the abuse, as Nabulwala contends.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and punishable by one to four years in prison. But a police spokeswoman, Alice Nakoba, said no one has ever been convicted. She defended her country's treatment of gays, saying that Ugandans seeking asylum in developed countries exaggerate.
Nabulwala is "extremely happy" about the March 21 ruling, said her attorney, Eric Dorkin. Dorkin would not allow her to be interviewed or photographed, citing concerns about her safety and privacy.
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Document Date: 30 Mar 2007
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Uganda/Kenya/Congo: Homosexuals come out in Kenya-Posted by africanpress -By Malaysia Sun 4/30/07 : http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/
Luzau Basambombo spent six months in a Kinshasa prison, abused over and over again. The Congolese human rights activist suspects that he was put behind bars because he openly admitted being homosexual. "If you are gay in Congo, you become an outlaw," he says.
After being released from prison, he left Congo for Uganda where he was granted asylum. "When the authorities found out that I was gay, I was asked to leave the country," he says.
Today, the 38-year-old Congolese lives in Nairobi and he feels comfortable there. "Things are changing here in Kenya - in favour of us."
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Document Date: 30 Mar 2007
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Uganda: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07
Homosexuals faced widespread discrimination and legal restrictions. It is illegal for homosexuals to engage in sexual acts, based on a legal provision that criminalizes "carnal acts against the order of nature" with a penalty of life imprisonment.
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Document Date: 6 Mar 2007
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Uganda: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 - 03/06/07-Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor-http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78763.htm
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On August 8, the Red Pepper tabloid published a list of 45 first names and professions of alleged homosexual men. HRW condemned the tabloid's decision to publish the list and called for the government to end harassment and condemnation of homosexuals and sexual rights activists. There were unconfirmed reports that arrests were made following the publication of the article.
On August 14, a court in Kampala charged David Kaloke with having "carnal sex" in September 2005 with Michael Mukiibi, a 16-year-old student of Kyebando. Kaloke was released on bail and the case was pending at year's end.
n July 2005 parliament amended Article 31 of the constitution to prohibit same sex marriage.
Persons with HIV/AIDS continued to face discrimination among local communities and employers. On July 17, the director of the country's HRW HIV/AIDS program called for an end to abuses of persons living with HIV/AIDS. The NGO cited the example of Vivian Kavuma, who was reportedly murdered in June by her lover after she disclosed she was an HIV/AIDS patient. No arrests were made in the case by year's end.
International and local NGOs, in cooperation with the government, sponsored public awareness campaigns that aimed to eliminate the stigma of HIV/AIDS. Counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS was free and available at health centers and local NGOs across the country. Counselors encouraged patients to be tested with their partners and family so that they all received information about living with HIV/AIDS. Persons living with HIV/AIDS formed support groups to promote awareness in their local communities.
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Document Date: 6 Mar 2007
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Uganda: Long Fight for Justice for Homosexuals-By Joyce Mulama-01/23/07-http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36271
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At the five-day forum, which opened Jan. 20 here in Kenya's capital, lesbians and gays from across Africa have come out to express how they have been ill-treated by society.
In most African countries, homosexuality is taboo. It is regarded by some as satanic and un-African.
However, the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK), an umbrella body of gay and lesbian groups, and which has brought together colleagues from across the continent to share experiences, is hopeful that after the WSF, this perception will have changed.
"After the WSF, we expect that Kenyan's and Africa's views on homosexuals will be transformed forever, and that they will view us with a new eye," Pauline Kimani of GALCK told IPS.
"We are saying we exist and that we are part of the society. We want to be treated as people because we are people, we are human beings living in the same world," she added.
"Leading a homosexual life in Kenya is not difficult when you are in the closet. The problem is when you open up. When girls learnt that I was a lesbian, they feared sitting next to me; they thought I would hit on them," Kimani, a university student in Nairobi recalled.
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Document Date: 23 Jan 2007
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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
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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.
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.
"I am so scared. I don't know what to do," she said in an interview at a secret location in Uganda.
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Document Date: 17 Nov 2006
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Uganda: Report on Rights on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Uganda-11/09/06-http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/publications/reportsandpublications/306.html
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Document Date: 9 Nov 2006
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Uganda: Arrests of Men on Sodomy Charges- by: IGLHRC, 10/17/06: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/takeaction/resourcecenter/318.html
Over the last few weeks, there have been at least five arrests made in Uganda pursuant to the country's law that criminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults. It is unclear where the men remain in detention and under what conditions. While it is unclear whether these arrests are related to the recent "outings" of gay men and lesbians in the Ugandan tabloid, The Red Pepper, they demonstrate the level of homophobia, much of state-sponsored, that still exists in Uganda.
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Document Date: 17 Oct 2006
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Uganda Won't Violate Gays' Human Rights, But... - Brig (rtd) Matayo Kyaligonza 10/10/06
AllAfrica.com
The East African (Nairobi)
OPINION
October 10, 2006
Posted to the web October 10, 2006
Nairobi
The recent condemnation of the Uganda government by Amnesty International over alleged incitement against same-sex relationships is inappropriate and in bad taste.
Even animals, who are considered as lacking the advanced brain capacity of the human mind, have not been reported to resort to same-sex relationships, in spite of the favourable circumstances that would provide them with such an opportunity.
IT SOLELY remains the prerogative of the society to shun sexual perversion in the strongest ways possible, so that the same culture may not encroach on our sanctity and influence future generations into abhorrent cultural practices.
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Document Date: 10 Oct 2006
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Uganda: International Human Rights Group Demands Accountability from U.S. HIV/AIDS Fund- 10/10/07
Is the U.S. Financing Homophobia in Africa?
October 10, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Hossein Alizadeh,
IGLHRC Communications Coordinator, 212-430- 6016
(New York, October 10, 2007) - The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has uncovered evidence that the U.S. government has funded groups in Uganda that actively promote discrimination against lesbians and gay men. In a letter to U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul, IGLHRC has criticized funding the groups and has asked for assurances that U.S. government funds are not being used to support homophobic organizations anywhere in the world.
IGLHRC's investigation followed a series of distressing events in Uganda. At an August 16 press conference, Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG), a coalition of LGBT groups, launched Let us Live in Peace Campaign, calling for understanding and respect of sexual minorities. SMUG's campaign was met with an increase in hate speech by religious groups. The primary instigator of the backlash was Pastor Martin Ssempa, leader of the Makerere University Community Church and spokesman for the Interfaith Family Culture Coalition Against Homosexuality in Uganda. Ssempa organized an August 21 rally in Kampala, the country's largest city, at which more than one hundred demonstrators, including several government officials, demanded official action against LGBT people. Ssempa has called homosexual conduct, "a criminal act against the laws of nature," and has said that, "there should be no rights granted to homosexuals in this country."
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Document Date: 10 Oct 2006
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Brits protest Ugandan homophobia- Rex Wockner International # 649 10/2/06
About 30 protesters from the queer direct-action group OutRage! and the
National Union of Students picketed Uganda's High Commission in London
Sept. 22, protesting against the African nation's "latest homophobic
outrage" -- a tabloid newspaper's recent outing of 58 ordinary citizens.
"Uganda is the new Zimbabwe," said OutRage!'s Peter Tatchell. "President
Yoweri Museveni is the Robert Mugabe of Uganda -- a homophobic tyrant
who tramples on democracy and human rights."
Ugandan law punishes sex between males with up to life in prison, and
gays and lesbians are known to be targeted by vigilante mobs.
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Document Date: 2 Oct 2006
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Ugandan lesbians outed - Rex Wockner International # 647 9/18/06
Following up on its recent outing of 45 alleged gay men, the Ugandan
tabloid newspaper Red Pepper outed 13 alleged lesbians Sept. 8.
They include two boutique owners, a basketball player and the daughters
of a former member of Parliament and a prominent sheik.
"To rid our motherland of the deadly vice, we are committed to exposing
all the lesbos in the city," the newspaper said, inviting readers to
"send more names" of the "lesbin (sic) in your neighborhood."
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Document Date: 18 Sep 2006
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UGANDA 13 women (names known to Amnesty International) AI 9/8/06
08 September 2006
UA 243/06 Fear for Safety/ Harassment
UGANDA 13 women (names known to Amnesty International)
On 8 September, the Ugandan newspaper Red Pepper published a list of 13 women they claim are lesbians.
Homosexuality is a criminal offence in Uganda, and Amnesty International believes that making such allegations
against these women may put them in danger. The article called for people to name other women suspected of
being lesbians in order to ârid our motherland of the deadly viceâ.
This is the third instance in recent weeks of Red Pepper openly and specifically harassing lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) people. On 8 August, the newspaper published a similar list of name of men it claimed were
gay. On 7 September, Red Pepper ran an article naming and picturing another man, supposedly wanted by police
for engaging in âhomosexuality activities [sic]â. Following the publication of the list of men on 8 August, Amnesty
International received several reports of harassment of LGBT people who had been named. Some reported being
harassed by colleagues, while others were ostracized by relatives.
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Document Date: 8 Sep 2006
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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
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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.
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Document Date: 8 Sep 2006
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Ugandan 'gay' name list condemned- by, BBC News, 09/08/06: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5326930.stm
A Ugandan newspaper's decision to publish the names of alleged homosexual men is a "chilling development", New York-based Human Rights Watch says.
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Document Date: 8 Sep 2006
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Uganda: Jinja Cops hunt for gays- Red Pepper By Goodman Musambante 9/7/06
Police in Jinja has instituted an operation to crack down on gays who are reportedly on verge of overthrowing the straight sex generation in the district.
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Document Date: 7 Sep 2006
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45 gays outed in Uganda witch-hunt - Brett Lock, OutRage! 9/7/06
"The police called some of the boys in the list. Our efforts to help out our friends who have been arrested were fruitless, since the police, under the influence of many different politicians, wanted the guys to be jailedâ¦.The gays were not allowed access to proper justice. Some of them were put in cells for more than 48 hours, which are allowed by the police and yet none of them have had the opportunity to be in court. Those who have been released on police bail, we don't know their whereabouts.
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Document Date: 7 Sep 2006
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Uganda: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 - 03/08/06-Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor-http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61598.htm
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In January the Anti-Homophobie Africaine, a local NGO whose aim is to protect and promote the rights of persons with a minority sexual acts, based on a legal provision that criminalizes carnal acts against ?order of nature? with a penalty of life imprisomnment.
On July 6, parliament amended Article 31 of the constitution to prohibit homosexual marriage.
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Document Date: 8 Mar 2006
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Uganda: Since 9/11, Blind Eye to Persecution- Gay City News- By: DOUG IRELAND 1/11/07
Unfortunately, Habeeb's father, a strict Muslim who did not know he is gay, saw the rankings online and found other evidence on the Internet of his participation in gay tennis tournaments around the globe-and reported his son's homosexuality to Ugandan authorities. Homosexuality is a crime in Uganda punishable by seven years in prison-and the country is in the throes of an anti-gay crusade (see this reporter's article, "Uganda Witch-Hunt Escalates," in Gay City News, September 14-20, 2006). Not too long ago Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, ordered all gays and lesbians arrested for engaging in "abominable acts."
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Document Date: 11 Jan 2006
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Uganda: Human Rights Watch homors AIDS activist
Outspoken defender of women living with HIV/AIDS
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Document Date: 12 Dec 2005
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Reason and Superstition in Uganda- by Bill Cooke www.secularhumanism.org/ 12/12/05
Besides persecution of the nonreligious, other forms of discrimination were discussed at the conferences. In Uganda, homosexuality carries with it a maximum of life imprisonment, and there is severe punishment even for failing to report homosexual activity to the police. Not surprisingly, then, the few Ugandan homosexuals brave enough to show their faces began speaking up at the conference. The conference agreed that this form of discrimination was unacceptable in an open society.
Nobody was ready for the press reaction. The New Vision paper carried an article the next day under the headline ?Homos Meet in Kampala.? Suddenly, the humanist conferences had become ?the first ever conference to discuss the rights of homosexuals.? A cartoon in the following day?s paper plumbed the depths of bad taste. It portrayed some very caricatured gays mincing off to a conference and taunting police in full confidence of not being arrested while there were other, larger conferences attended by representatives of nations helping Uganda still in town. The policeman replies to the homosexuals with a veiled threat to dare continue the meeting after the other conferences have finished.
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Document Date: 12 Dec 2005
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Uganda: Reason and Supersition in Uganda-Council for Secular Humanism by Bill Cooke, from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 24, Number 6-12/12/05
It has become problematic throughout the Western world to speak of reason or superstition without resorting to scare quotes. To talk of reason or superstition is naive, logocentric, culturally imperialist, or some other fashionable perjorative. But wrap these sorts of words in scare quotes, and we can affect a pleasing irony.
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Document Date: 12 Dec 2005
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The Truth About Uganda's Sex-Ed Campaign Against AIDS-Religious Tolerance.org-12/12/05
Sex-ed classes in North American and elsewhere generally fall into one of two classes:
*Abstinence-only classes in which students are taught about remaining sexually inactive until marriage. They are trained how to say "no" to sex. They are kept ignorant of methods to prevent transmission of "Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Contraception to prevent pregnancy is also not taught.
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Document Date: 12 Dec 2005
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Uganda: Especially Vulnerable Persons-hrw.org-12/12/05
In order to investigate the impact of abstinence-only programs on young people's right to information, Human Rights Watch interviewed a wide range of young Ugandans about their sexual attitudes, intentions, and behaviors, as well as their knowledge about HIV/AIDS prevention. Interviewees included boys and girls, both in and out of school; children orphaned by AIDS; young people affected by war adn civil conflict; and young men having sex with men. These interviews revealed that for many segments of the Ugandan population, including some of those at highest risk of HIV, promoting abstinence to the exclusion of other messages violated their right to information and to protect themselves from a deadly disease.
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Document Date: 12 Dec 2005
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IGLHRC condems Uganda's targeting of lesbians and gay men: Calls ban on seme-sex marriage "overkill"
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Document Date: 13 Oct 2005
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Uganda Bans same-sex marriage- Rex Wockner International News # 598- 10/10/05
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a constiturional amendment Sept. 28 banning same -sex marriage. The measure passed Parliament in August.
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Document Date: 10 Oct 2005
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Uganda: Amnesty International-2005 Human Rights Report- 08/16/05
The climate of hostility against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people persisted and discriminatory legislation against sexual minorities remained in force. SEcurity agents continued to harass members of the LGBT community, causing gay rights activists at one of the main universities to fear for their personal safety.
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Document Date: 16 Aug 2005
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Uganda: Intimidation of lesbian and gay activists- Amnesty International 08/02/05
Amnesty International is concerned about the on-going intimidation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists in Uganda. The latest incident follows steps taken by Ugandan law-makers in July 2005, who voted for a constitutional amendment to criminalize marriage between persons of the same sex.
Activist Victor Juliet Mukasa, Chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), fears for her safety after her house was raided on the night of 20 July 2005. Local government officials in a suburb of the capital city, Kampala, entered her house in her absence and seized documents and other material, apparently looking for ?incriminating evidence? relating to the activities of SMUG. No search warrant was produced on demand. The organization advocates for the promotion and respect of all rights contained in the Uganda constitution and in international human rights treaties for lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, including the right not to be discriminated against.
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Document Date: 2 Aug 2005
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Uganda: more gay people suffer in silence as they are not able to communicate their suffering - www.mask.org.za 08/01/05
August 1, 2005: I am a female Ugandan, 25 years of age and am writing this with clear conscience despite that most people in Uganda regard homosexuality as insanity.
On a sad note, I would like to say something on the terrible incident that happened on the 20-july-2005 to Uganda's prominent gay activist, Ms. Juliet Victor Mukasa and the Kenyan activist. This kind of ordeal has been on-going for years in Uganda as most of us have no way of informing you about our suffering, you are not able to report about it.
I would like to say that the reasons given by the LC1 as complaints from locals are not true. We as LGBTs here have suffered from that for a long time because as long a heterosexual person comes up an accusation, it's definitely the gay person in the wrong.
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Document Date: 1 Aug 2005
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uganda:gay activist vows to sue Ics for raiding her home By Moses Mulondo & Wendy Glauser-www.mask.org.za/SECTIONS/AfricaPerCountry/ABC/uganda/uganda_111.htm-07/28/05
Ms. Juliet Victor Mukasa, the chairperson of the Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), says she is pressing charges against her LC1 chairman, Mr. John Lubega, for abusing her friend and violating her right to privacy by illegally searching her house on July 20. Mukasa, who admits she is a lesbian, was away when Lubega entered her house in Kamuli C Zone. He confiscated a CD and documents, most of which were SMUG-related.
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Document Date: 28 Jul 2005
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rights body attacks uganda over gay ban By Grace Matsiko-www.mask.org.za/SECTIONS/AfricaPerCountry/ABC/uganda/uganda_111.htm-07/26/05
The Human Rights Watch (HRW), a global human rights body has attacked Uganda for proposing a law banning same sex marriage saying it is deepening repression.
"In voting for a constitutional amendment to criminalise marriage between persons of the same sex, Uganda's Parliament has struck a gratuitous blow for prejudice and against basic human rights", the HRW said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday.
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Document Date: 26 Jul 2005
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Uganda: Confusion as SMUG doesn't understand why the police are being nice towards them. by Musa Ngubane www.mask.org.za 07/25/05
As SMUG officials report to a Kampala police station in accord with the recent police orders handed over to them, they are perplexed that the police reception towards the group has been ironically cordial. But they fear that the worst is to come still.
With the help of International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) representative who was in Uganda at the time of the raids and lawyers, the victims of the raid view with scepticism the relative peace and civil treatment given by the police.
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Document Date: 25 Jul 2005
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Ugandan Gay and Lesbian organizations, activists targeted by the police- By: Musa Ungubane
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Document Date: 21 Jul 2005
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Uganda: Gays and lesbians sidelined in AIDS campaigns- IRIN 07/18/05
JOHANNESBURG, 18 July (PLUSNEWS) - Discrimination against HIV-positive gay men and women is contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, according to local AIDS activists.
Rubaramira Ruranga from the National Guidance and Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS warned that successes against the pandemic could come to naught if anti-AIDS campaigns did not recognise the gay community.
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Document Date: 18 Jul 2005
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Truth of the matter about gay and lesbian Ugandans and the politics of pretense- by Victor Juliet Mukase- Behind the Mask 07/12/05
July 12, 2005: Kampala - An old saying goes, "Some things are better left unsaid!", but Uganda has taken it too far as far as homosexuals are concerned. Time after time, the gay community in Uganda has been harassed, ignored and even their status/presence declared null and void. Whoever does this forgets that these gay people are/might be their sons, daughters, siblings, parents, friends and so forth.
Many Ugandans have taken the gay issue as a moral, cultural, religious ?issue. My thinking is that they are wrong. Gone are the days when people fought against homosexuality because it is sinful, immoral, against African norms, illegal, name it.
Why? Because homosexuality is a reality here in Uganda. Homosexuals, who are even willing to be counted, really exist in the Pearl of Africa.
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Document Date: 12 Jul 2005
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Uganda: Same-Sex Marriage Ban Deepens Repression-HRW 07/12/05
(New York, July 12, 2005)?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.
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.
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Document Date: 12 Jul 2005
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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
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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.
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.
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Document Date: 12 Jul 2005
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Fears of enhanced gay repression in Uganda- www.Afrolnews.com- 07/11/05
afrol News, 11 July - Human rights activists fear that Uganda's gays and lesbians may face a round of even tougher repression as the Kampala parliament last week approved a constitutional amendment that criminalises marriage between persons of the same sex. Uganda already is one of the countries that practice the strongest sanctions against homosexuals worldwide.
On 5 July, 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.
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Document Date: 11 Jul 2005
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Uganda: Fears of enhanced gay repression in Uganda-afrol News-07/11/05
Human rights activists fear that Uganda's gays and lesbians may face a round of even tougher repression as the Kampala parliament last week approved a constitutional amendment that criminalises marriage between persons of the same sex. Uganda already is one of the countries that practice the strongest sanctions against homosexuals worldwide.
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Document Date: 11 Jul 2005
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Ugandan lawmakers pull the plug on homosexual activities- by Musa Ngubane www.mask.org.za 07/07/05
July 7, 2005: Kampala - The decision to administer Kampala under central government taken by Ugandan House of Parliament was not the only contentious decision taken during the sitting of the 5th of July 2005. The house considered and passed the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, 2005.
The day spelt doom and gloom for the gay and lesbian community as the legislation making body effectively outlawed homosexuality. Parliament overwhelmingly approved an amendment to Article 31, providing for complete rejection and criminalisation of same sex marriages.
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Document Date: 7 Jul 2005
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Uganda Article on HIV and homosexuality-What's A Black Man To Do?-07/07/05
I came across a very interesting article today about the need to address homosexuality in the fight against HIV in Uganda. Presently homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. Nonetheless, what was shocking and yet most interesting about the article is the many similarities between the people in Uganda and the U.S. Black communities. Addressing the shared perceptions and myths about homosexuality, the policy implications including those that tend to silence gay people, and even the primitive prison policies we have regarding gay sex during incarceration, perhaps are key in understanding the increasing rates of HIV infection. If only we take a critical look at these similarities.
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Document Date: 7 Jul 2005
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Uganda: Uganda to jail Same-sex Couples who marry- By 365Gay.com-07/07/05-http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/world/uganda/ugnews026.htm
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Uganda?s parliament has passed tough new laws against gays in the African nation. The new law makes it a criminal offense for same-sex couples to marry.
?Parliament has adopted a proposal to amend the Constitution so as to criminalize same-sex marriages,? Bernard Eceru a spokesperson for the government told the Ugandan newspaper. Eceru said that 111 MPs voted in favor of the amendment, 17 against and three abstained.
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Document Date: 7 Jul 2005
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Uganda: HIV/Don't Ignore Homosexuals-New Vision-07/06/05
He was young: in his mid 20s, medium height and unremarkable. He had recently been diagnosed HIV-positive. We talked, took tests and discussed the results. And then, he told me he was a homosexual. But he was a healthy young man. How would he stop his lovers from getting HIV? I did not know. Paul Semugoma writes: THE link between HIV and gay sex is well known outside Uganda.
First cases of "the new disease" in 1983 were identified in gay men. They became a "key population" in HIV because they have high rates of infection, transmission and STDs.
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Document Date: 6 Jul 2005
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Uganda: mind, boy & spirit: Christianity- HIV positive African clergy fight AIDS stigma- By Katie Nguyen- 06/27/05
June 27, 2005 A group of African clergy infected with HIV is urging the faithful to test for the virus and admit their status to help fight stigma hampering efforts to stem AIDS in the worst-affected continent.
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Document Date: 27 Jun 2005
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uganda warns un not to give gays aids information By Newscenter Staff (365Gay.com)-05/30/05
The government of Uganda has issued a warning to the UN join program on HIV/AIDS that it risks being thrown out of the country if it offers AIDS education to gays. Information Minister James Nsaba Buturo accused UNAIDS and the Uganda AIDS Commission of holding "a secret meeting" with members of Uganda's gay community.
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Document Date: 30 May 2005
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Uganda: Human Rights commission receives an official petition from SMUG-By Behind The Mask-05/06/05-http://www.mask.org.za/sections/africapercountry/abc/uganda/uganda_96.htm
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This complaint details systematic and purposeful human rights abuses against Uganda?s sexual minorities, i.e. gays, lesbians, and transgendered individuals. The government of Uganda disallows appropriate HIV/AIDS treatment and counseling for these existing minorities simply due to their sexual preferences.
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Document Date: 6 May 2005
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uganda: city authorities okay homosexuals By Charles Mwanguhya Mgapi (The Monitor)-www.mask.org.za/SECTIONS/AfricaPerCountry/ABC/uganda/uganda_111.htm-04/25/05
Two public officials in Kampala have backed the registration of a non-governmental organisation that seeks to promote the rights of homosexuals and lebians.
The deputy of RDC for Makindye Division, Edward Ssekaganja, and the division's LC-III chairman, Deogratious Kijambu, wrote separately to the NGO Board recommending the registration of Anti-Homophobie Africaine. Anti-Homopobie Africaine is seeking to operate as an NGO with the main aim of protection and promoting the rights of people with a minority sexual orientation, said its co-coordinator Luzau Basambmbo.
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Document Date: 25 Apr 2005
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Uganda- Human Rights Watch Report-The Less They Know, the Better Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda- VI. Specially Vulnerable Persons [HIV] 04/30/05
A social worker at a youth drop-in center in the Kawempe Division of Kampala told Human Rights Watch, ?Each group we work with needs its own message. . . . Some ages and some groups will not listen to abstinence, and we need to accept that as reality and work with them.?157 A nurse in the same center added, ?The condom message is working. We see the number [of condoms] being used and demanded has grown, plus we?ve seen a reduction in the number of STIs here at the center.?
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Document Date: 30 Mar 2005
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Uganda: A Right to be Gay - Moses Must Stay!- www.ncadc.org.uk/03/19/05
Moses Kayiza is a gay asylum seeker who fled Uganda in May 2004.
According to the law, religion and culture in Uganda, homosexuality is strongly criminalised. The official maximum penalty is life imprisonment. Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda, once proposed the arrest of all homosexuals - though he subsequently modified his position and called for a return to the good old days when "these few individuals were either ignored or speared and killed by their parents".
Moses lived in secret for a number of years as a young gay man. In 2003 the pressure from Moses' family and tradition mounted and he succumbed to an arranged marriage. After 13 months of marriage and a period of separation, Moses' wife returned to their family home and found Moses with his long-term male partner. Moses' wife reported him to the police, and on the basis of evidence gathered, the police subsequently arrested Moses. As is not uncommon in Uganda, whilst in custody Moses was tortured and sexually abused for 7 days by the security forces until his escape.
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Document Date: 19 Mar 2005
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Black Looks-Musings and Rants of an African Fem-02/21/05-okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2005/02
February 21, 2005
Vaginas silenced in Kampala
The Media Council of Uganda has banned The Vagina Monologues which were to be stated in Kampala on Friday. Women's groups in Uganda hoped to use the play to "raise concerns about the rights of women, their suffering on the domestic and other fronts" as well as to raise much needed funds to support women victims of violence.
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Document Date: 21 Feb 2005
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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
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President Yoweri Museveni has praised the church for making a firm and principied stand against homosexuality.
Museveni said the church had stood its ground on homosexuality although aid from foreign friends was affected.
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Document Date: 4 Jan 2005
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Uganda: gay activist vows to sue LCS for raiding her home- by Moses Mulondo & Wendy Glauser- www.mask.org.za 07/28/05
July 28, 2005: Ms Juliet Victor Mukasa, the chairperson of the Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), says she is pressing charges against her LC1 chairman, Mr John Lubega, for abusing her friend and violating her right to privacy by illegally searching her house on July 20.
Mukasa, who admits she is a lesbian, was away when Lubega entered her house in Kamuli C Zone. He confiscated a CD and documents, most of which were SMUG-related.
Targeted?
Mukasa believes she was targeted because she is a lesbian, and that this discrimination violates her basic human rights.
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Document Date: 1 Jan 2005
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Persecution of gays intensifies in Uganda - www.afrol.com - 12/01/04
afrol News, 1 December - Human rights groups report of a "dramatic escalation of intimidation and persecution" of gay and lesbian activists in Uganda as result of a government campaign. Ugandan authorities are following the Church in demonising homosexuality in the country.
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) this week reported this intensified persecution of homosexuals in Uganda. The increased pressure on pro-gay organisations comes after the Anglican Church of Uganda launched a strong campaign against homosexuality.
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Document Date: 1 Dec 2004
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Ugandan authorities causion UN body ofve homosexuality BBC Worldwide Monitoring 11/29/04
The government of Uganda has cautioned the UN joint programme on HIV/AIDS against activities, which support gay groups as details of a secret medeting by sexual minorities in jinja eastern Uganda leaked to the Monitor.
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Document Date: 29 Nov 2004
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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
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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.
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Document Date: 29 Nov 2004
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Uganda: Witch hunt threatened- By Behind The Mask-10/18/04-http://www.mask.org.za/SECTIONS/AfricaPerCountry/ABC/uganda/uganda_68.htm
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The Xtreme has this week revealed the names of people who they claim are homosexuals and has threatened to reveal more names, claiming that their list includes high profile bussines men and religious leaders.
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Document Date: 18 Oct 2004
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Uganda: Uganda fines radio station after Gays interviewed-By 365gay.com-10/04/04-http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/world/uganda/ugnews020.htm
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Uganda?s broadcast regulatory body has fined a radio station mora than $1000 and ordered it to air a public apology over an interview with gays seeking civil rights in the African country.
Radio Simba aired the interview during a program on minority rights.
The Ugandan Broadcasting Council accused the station of defying the country?s Electronic Media Act., wich prohibits any broadcasting that is contrary to public morality. It also said that Radio Simba contravened Uganda?s Penal Code Act., wich stipulates that homosexuality is illegal in the country.
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Document Date: 4 Oct 2004
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Burundi/Uganda - Unravelling the Dynamics of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma and Discrimination: The Role of Community Based Research- A MASAP Publication 04/30/04
With over 28 million people estimated to be living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, the impact on communities has been devastating. Over the last decade, ACORD, and Africa-agenda led organization working in 18 countries in the region, has supported the efforts of people living in poor and marginalized communities to understand the roots of the problem and to find ways of preventing further spread of the virus and mitigating its impact.
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Document Date: 20 Apr 2004
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Uganda: Prejudice in Uganda- By Eric Beauchemin-01/12/04-http://web.archive.org/web/20040219221608/http://www.rnw.nl/humanrights/html/uganda.html
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Document Date: 12 Jan 2004
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Uganda: Ugandan teen commits suicide after "lesbian" accusations-By Gmax.co.za-12/18/03-http://www.gmax.co.za/look/12/18-MASKuganda.html
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Paula lived in Nsambya Hospital quaters. Her father, John Rwomushana works with in the hospital and her mother is a nurse. A week before her death, Paula was suspended from school because she is a lesbian. Her parents brought her back on December 3, 2003.
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Document Date: 18 Dec 2003
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Uganda MPS oppose Homosexuality, Lesbianism- Panafrican News Agencies
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Document Date: 7 Nov 2003
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Uganda: Uganda queer activists write the president- By Gmax.co.za-10/10/03-http://www.gmax.co.za/look/10/10-MASKuganda.html
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The letter, dated October 2, 2003, says, "We believe criminalizing us because of our nature is unfair [and we] will not support any political organisation which doesn't endorse our rights."
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Document Date: 10 Oct 2003
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Uganda: Uganda Gays Demand Rights-By Rainbownetwork-10/08/03-http://www.rainbownetwork.com/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=10421
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Gala wants constitutional protections for gays and lesbians, homosexuality decriminalized, and laws forbidding same-sex couples from marrying overturned.
The country is a former British colony and the Anglican church has considerable political power in the country.
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Document Date: 8 Oct 2003
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Uganda: African Gays and Lesbians: Under Fire- By Wairagala Wakabi-01/23/03-http://web.archive.org/web/20040826084749/http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/index_20020805_b.asp
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Document Date: 23 Jan 2003
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Uganda- Decision Refugee Review Tribunal- Australia RRT Reference: N01/39528 (19 december 2002)- 12/19/02
Conclusion
The tribunal is satisfied that the applicant is a person to whom Australia has protection obligations under the Refugees Convention as amended by the Refugees Protocol. Therefore the applicant satisfies the criterion set out in s.36(2) of the Act for a protection visa.
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Document Date: 19 Dec 2002
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Uganda: THE TRUTH ABOUT UGANDA'S SEX-ED CAMPAIGN AGAINST AIDS- www.religioustolerance.org 07/30/02
On the negative side, Museveni refuses to acknowledge that homosexuality exists in his country. He believes that HIV infection only spreads in his country by three methods:
*Unprotected heterosexual sex.
*Transfusion with infected blood.
*Tribal customs such as circumcision. 1
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Document Date: 30 Jul 2002
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The 1995 Constitution of Uganda and Sexual Minorities-smug.4t.com 12/31/95
Introduction
This article aims at clarifying on the position of sexual minorities in the 1995 Constitution of Uganda.
This however came after an observance of the gross human rights abuses suffered by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people in Uganda. Although the constitution talks about minority rights, little has been done to protect the rights of LGBT people in Uganda.
The article concludes that LGBT people should be included among the people to enjoy minority rights as laid down in the Ugandan Constitution.
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Document Date: 31 Dec 1995
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Sexual Minorities Uganda [SM-UG] is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that works towards achieving full legal and social equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Uganda.It is the umbrella organization of all homosexual organizations in Uganda.
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Video: The Tortured Path to Rid Uganda of Gays
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by David Roberts
Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin has taken some clips obtained jointly by them and us to create an excellent description of the devastating influence of the March 5th Homosexuality Seminar in Kampala. Scott Lively described his presentation there as a ?nuclear bomb against the ?gay? agenda in Uganda? and certainly the fallout has been potentially deadly. Lively plays on that region?s worst fears and historical anger and he does it well.
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