In the heart of Africa, a storm is brewing within the hallowed halls of legislative chambers, and the tempest is named the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023.
Nestled within the intricate legal deliberations of the Constitutional Court of Uganda, the recently enacted legislation whose constitutionality is set to be determined by a court in Uganda has stirred widespread controversy
In March 2023, a group of Ugandan parents of LGBTIQ+ children published an open letter to Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, imploring him not to sign into law the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which had been tabled in the country’s parliament.
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Conference report (deutsch)
Date: 7 September 2023
Duration: 1 – 6 pm, followed by a “queer walk”
Location: Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Hasemauer 1, 49074 Osnabrück
Conference languages: English and German with translations
Termin: 7. September 2023
Dauer: 13 – 18 Uhr, mit anschließendem Queerwalk
Ort: Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Hasemauer 1, 49074 Osnabrück
Konferenzsprachen: Englisch und Deutsch
This article covers a side event organised by GIN-SSOGIE at the UN Human Rights Council on “Using inclusive narratives around faith and tradition to support human rights advocacy on the continent”.
Video Message by Monica Tabengwa, Pan Africa ILGA on the LEGABIBO Botswana court case, other cases of freedom of association in Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria and on the importance of the right to register
Monica Tabengwa, Director of Pan Africa ILGA at the “Time to react” conference organized by Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation and the German Federal Foreign Office, in Berlin, 1 June 2017, read the full transcription:
Hi my name is Monica Tabengwa. I’m the director of Pan Africa ILGA. I come from Botswana. I’m a lawyer and my work, for all of my life I’ve been a human rights activist.
In particular I’ve worked with women’s rights and now I work with LGBTI rights. I worked in Botswana with an organisation called LEGABIBO, which is Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in Botswana. What I should tell you about Botswana is firstly, I mean you all know, they criminalise same-sex conduct. It’s important that you understand that same-sex conduct is not homosexuality that is criminalised. But of course people understand that differently. And so what you do get is that people think that being gay, lesbian, transgender is what is criminalised. And so because of that there are some issues where the LGBTI community is finding themselves being discriminated or their rights being violated because of the perception that their sexuality is criminalised. And one these is being able to register, being able to associate as a group, registrar society that works within Botswana for their rights.