Tag: Uganda
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Uganda Pride 2016 Postponed After Police Harass and Detain Participants
“Again and again, Ugandan authorities show that they have no regard for basic human rights of LGBTIQ people and that they will even violate the Ugandan constitution in order to stop LGBTIQ people from exercising those basic rights.” – Maria Sjodin, Deputy Executive Director, OutRight Action International.
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Denmark gives lesbian refugee last-minute reprieve
Denmark’s given a last-minute reprieve to a Ugandan lesbian asylum seeker, announcing a review of her case on the day she was to be sent home.
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Andrea Leadsom’s Ugandan Project Has Ties To An Anti-Gay Christian Group
The Tory leadership contender set up a school exchange programme with a centre co-run by a group whose founder condemned homosexuality as “counterfeit love” and “a sin”.
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Life of LGBT asylum seekers to be explored on stage
A new play, inspired by the struggles of lesbians and gay men who have fled to the UK to escape persecution, will be performed in the North East later this month.
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Honduras: 215 LGBT people murdered in 7 years
A new report from Index on Censorship exposes the torture, imprisonment and assassination of LGBT people and activists in Honduras.
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HRC: Notorious American Hate Group Heads to Barbados
Today, the Human Rights Campaign, (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, stands in solidarity with LGBT advocates and allies as anti-LGBT activists descended on Barbados for a regional gathering hosted by the World Congress of Families (WCF).