All posts tagged "uganda"
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Creating Change International Panel Highlights Trans Abuses And Ugandan Needs
Moderator Cary Alan Johnson, executive director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, noted that more than 80 countries around the world still...
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Uganda Official Counters Unitarian Minister
A Unitarian Ugandan minister in exile, due to reported threats on his life, spoke to a packed Silver Spring church Tuesday night about a proposed...
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In Harm's Way
For a month, Frank Mugisha is out of Uganda. In late October, he arrived in Norway, where he received the Rafto Prize on behalf of...
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Global Grassroots
Although I'm writing this on Memorial Day, Monday will be a distant news-cycle memory come Thursday's publication. That does not stop me, however, from considering...
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New Neighbor
While the ongoing uncertainty of Uganda's ''kill the gays'' bill – a for-now tabled proposal to radically reinforce Ugandan law, which already criminalizes homosexuality –...
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Alliance of Fighters
Representatives from the faith, business and arts communities joined political activists and public officials on April 20 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Gay...
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U.S. Diplomat on Uganda’s Bahati: “His homophobia … is blinding and incurable.”
In new U.S. diplomatic cables provided by WikiLeaks, The Guardian today published cables detailing the United States diplomacy relating to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill. [UPDATE: As...
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Bravery in Black
An extraordinary display of gay courage and determination comes to us from Mukono, Uganda, thanks to a YouTube video of last Friday's funeral for murdered...
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Get Equal Plans to Protest Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast
Get Equal announced plans today to protest the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual D.C. event attended by many D.C. luminaries, including the president, that is...
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Obama on Uganda Killing: “LGBT rights are not special rights; they are human rights.”
President Barack Obama, following up on an earlier statement today from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, issued a statement this afternoon condemning the killing of...
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Radical Retelling
In July, Kushaba Moses Mworeko, a Ugandan seeking asylum in the United States on the basis of sexual orientation, told his story to Metro Weekly....
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Capitol Hill “C Street house” connected to “kill the gays” Evangelicals in Uganda [video]
”I went at the invitation of David Bahati, who is a member of parliament in Uganda who has proposed the kill the gays bill…. ...
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The Promised Land
Ugandan politics took a sad walk onto the world stage at the end of 2009, when David Bahati, a member of Parliament, introduced a bill...
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Senate Advances on International LGBT Rights
An amendment that successfully passed as part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's State Department authorization bill would increase U.S. monitoring of international violence and...
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Obama Slams Ugandan Bill
President Barack Obama took the setting of the National Prayer Breakfast – an annual Washington event that has drawn criticism from several quarters this year...
