Tag Archives: homosexuality

Let us all be one family that Stands for Justice, Equality and Peace”

On Mon­day, 1st March, a group of activists and civil soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions in Uganda pre­sented a peti­tion signed by 450,000 peo­ple from across the world oppos­ing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The Peti­tion was pre­sented to Edward Sekandi, the Ugan­dan Speaker of Par­lia­ment and called for Par­lia­ment to “enact laws that will pro­tect peo­ple and not humil­i­ate

Homophobia — past successes and future struggles

I’m writ­ing this post in response to num­ber of arti­cles on the preva­lence of homo­pho­bia in Africa and to try and give some per­spec­tive and his­tor­i­cal con­text.     In the last six months we have seen the expres­sion of homo­pho­bia with the Ugan­dan Anti-Homosexuality Bill; the arrest of gay Malaw­ian cou­ple, Tiwonge Chim­balanga and

Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill and Why We Should All Worry

This is a prob­lem, and not just a Ugan­dan problem.