Archive for the 'LGBT Human Rights' Category
April 27th, 2010 by Geronimo
From
Jim Burroway at The Box Turtle Bulletin:
The Sunday Monitor, Uganda’s largest independent newspaper, has apparently gotten a copy of the report by the Ugandan Cabinet committee tasked with reviewing the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill. According to the Monitor, the committee recommends deflecting attention to the bill by changing its title and/or combining it with the Sexual Offences Act.
Read more here.
April 22nd, 2010 by Geronimo
URGENT CALL TO ACTION:
STOP THECALL MINISTRIES FROM FUELING HOMOPHOBIA IN UGANDA THROUGH THEIR MAY 2, 2010, CRUSADE
22.04.2010
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) condemns Lou Engle’s upcoming crusade scheduled for May 2, 2010. The crusade could cause incalculable damage, as it is designed to label homosexuality as a “vice” in Uganda and to incite people to “fight” against this “vice” in society. In the context of an already inflamed extremist religious movement against homosexuality in Uganda sparked off by American evangelicals, the inflammatory preaching of Lou Engle and his associates is likely to incite further violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in Uganda.
Continue reading ‘TheCall Ministries from USA Intends to Fuel Homophobia in Uganda’
April 21st, 2010 by Geronimo
Another preacher from the United States is headed for Uganda to export hatred of gays. Lou Engle of Kansas City, Missouri wants to fill a stadium in Kampala on May 2 to shout about God’s wrath and punishment. He calls it love – we call it spiritual violence.
Join the campaign.
Watch the video after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Stop TheCall to Violence in Uganda!’
April 20th, 2010 by Geronimo
TO: THE CALL MINISTRIES
Joanna Watson
The call Uganda coordinator
Tel: +256-779864985
Email: joannawatsonthint@yahoo.com
20th April 2010
Dear Madam,
On behalf of Spectrum Uganda in conjunction with Edoboozi Human Rights Defenders Network, we have learnt about your call for a prayer meeting next month taking place in Kampala by TheCall ministries international.
We recognize that morals are part and parcel of any organized society and that freedom of worship is granted by the constitution of Uganda.
However it’s within the same spirit that sexual minorities must be protected as prescribed in the protection of human rights.
Therefore you should not spearhead hate campaigns in the name of faith against same sex relations in the guise of protection of family values and morals in Uganda when you mention homosexuality as one of the vices you fight.
Therefore we call upon the organizers to desist from promoting discriminating tendencies and social injustice meted out on sexual minorities which is common occurrence and to recognize freedom of association and expression in flourishing civil society.
Yours
Public Relations Officer
Moses Mulindwa
Spectrum Uganda Initiatives Incorporated
Telephone number: +256-700210629
Kampala-Uganda, Email: spectrumugandamission@yahoo.com
Website: www.spectrumuganda.org
March 29th, 2010 by Geronimo
The following is a statement released from the International Federation of Social Workers:
International Federation of Social Workers
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL WORK IN UGANDA
‘The proposals before the Ugandan Parliament concerning homosexuality and gay rights are a violation of international human rights conventions and should be withdrawn’, said Dr David N Jones, President of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), as he prepared for the annual United Nations Social Work Day in New York. He was supporting statements already made by UN global leaders and eminent human rights spokespeople.
Continue reading ‘Human Rights and Social Work in Uganda’
March 29th, 2010 by Geronimo
Rev. Kapya Kaoma of
Political Research Associates, author of “Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, & Homophobia,” and Frank Mugisha of
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) appeared on Democracy Now where they cover the untenable situation in Uganda as the world watches and waits for the pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
International Uproar over Uganda Anti-Gay Bill, Study Finds American Evangelicals Encouraging Homophobia.
View the video after the jump. Continue reading ‘International Uproar Over Uganda Anti-Gay Bill, Study Finds American Evangelicals Encouraging Homophobia’
March 9th, 2010 by Geronimo
See below a statement delivered at the UN Human Rights Council in interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights. There were representatives from 97 groups from 50 countries. Special thanks to John Fisher from ARC International.
To see the webcast of the statement as delivered, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/ycb3wcma
Continue reading ‘Joint Statement at the Human Rights Council’
March 1st, 2010 by Geronimo
EDOBOOZI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS STATEMENT
(Voice of the Voiceless)
Kampala, Uganda
22 February 2010
1) There is concentrated effort by some sections of the population, government, religious organizations to further criminalize, penalize and persecute LGBTI people for what they are.
Continue reading ‘Pride+Love in Uganda 07: Statement from Edoboozi Human Rights Defenders’
February 26th, 2010 by Geronimo
Like the Jews, the LGBT community in Uganda is a global minority, a family, a tribe. When one part of the community is under threat of state and extra-judicial violence as we witnessed here in Uganda, the global LGBT community is called to act. What we do should be directed by the Ugandan LGBT community, but all the LGBT citizens of Uganda we saw, in the hundreds, asked for international support.
In proposing to imprison LGBTs, their friends, families, doctors, and teachers, the UN Member State of Uganda threatens to be in violation of multiple treaties. If the anti-homosexuality bill should pass, all treaties and UN instruments related to sexual violence, violence against minorities, human rights, human rights defenders and others will be violated by this bill. Under “The Responsibility to Protect,” the Member State of Uganda will be in violation. Under RTP, a Member State is bound by the UN to protect vulnerable populations, not to rid themselves of a minority.
Continue reading ‘Pride+Love in Uganda 06: What is our obligation to LGBT Ugandans?’
February 18th, 2010 by Geronimo
Check back here often to view more press coverage on the conference.
“Uganda’s Gays Fight Back Against Crackdown,” The Huffington Post. February 26, 2010.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/ugandas-gays-fight-back-a_n_478054.html
“Ugandan president feels the heat,” Bay Area Reporter. February 25, 2010.
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4580
“Ugandan UUs oppose anti-homosexuality bill,” UU World. February 22, 2010.
http://ow.ly/16Dkxb
“Ugandan BGLT Rights Advocates Organize at Valentine’s Day Conference,” UUA News. February 18, 2010
http://www.uua.org/news/newssubmissions/158444.shtml
“Standing on the Side of Love in Uganda,” The Bilerico Project. February 15, 2010
http://ow.ly/17Thd
“Gay Ugandans gather to pray, plan,” Xtra.ca. February 15, 2010.
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Xtra_reports_from_Uganda_Gay_Ugandans_gather_to_pray_plan-8245.aspx
“Tulsa minister speaks for gay rights,” Tusla World. February 16, 2010.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100216_18_A1_Tlamns176200
“Police halts anti-gay demo as pro-gay activists secretly meet in Kampala,” Daily Monitor. February 15, 2010.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/862234/-/wiiri4/-/index.html
“Uganda police stop anti-gay demonstration,” Africk.com. February 16, 2010.
http://en.afrik.com/article16957.html
Original UUA press release: http://www.uua.org/news/newssubmissions/158042.shtml
For more press info, email geronimo[at]uu-uno[dot]org.
