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Uganda rejects a gay rights call

By Joshua Mmali for The BBC

Friday, 17 August 2007

LGBT activist

Uganda will not give equal rights to gays and lesbians nor has it plans to legalise homosexuality, Ethics Minister James Nsaba Buturo has said.

He was responding to a call from the Sexual Minorities Groups in Uganda (Smug) which for the first time held a press conference demanding recognition.

They also accused the police of brutality and harassment.

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Ugandan AIDS Commission Chief says homosexuality must be stamped out in schools

By Rachel Charman  

August 22, 2008 

 

Dr Kihumuro Apuuli, the Ugandan AIDS Commission Chief, has warned the education ministry of that country that homosexuality is "rife" in schools.

 

Dr Apuuli also urged the education ministry to stamp out homosexuality, and said that parents and guardians must aid them in this, The New Vision reports.

 

"The practice [of homosexuality] is common among young people between 15 and 24 years," he said.

 

Dr Apuuli recently returned from the International AIDS Conference in Mexico, and claims that Uganda was under attack by other states due to its conservative stance on gays and lesbians.

 

"We had quite adverse publicity in Mexico," he said.

 

"Many speakers condemned our country but I believe we have strong values in terms of behaviour and what we think is right."

 

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Uganda's gays left out of HIV/AIDS strategy

afrol News / PlusNews

20 March  

 

In a dimly lit karaoke bar in a suburb of Kampala, the capital, Crystal Namanya belts out Madonna's "Get into the Groove", following the words as they run across a television screen. Her rendition is a crowd pleaser, attracting applause and shouts of "you go, girl!" from her fellow revellers.

 

This is no ordinary karaoke evening. Nearly everyone in the bar is gay, something most Ugandans consider un-African and un-Christian. The police have raided this secluded bar several times in the past year but, for the time being, it is one of just a handful of places where the city's gays and lesbians feel safe.

 

Homosexuality carries a huge stigma in conservative Uganda, and a conviction for sodomy - deemed "an act against the order of nature" - carries a life sentence in jail. 

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Concern for missing Ugandan gay rights activist

By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk July 28, 2008 

 

One of three people who demonstrated at an AIDS international conference in Uganda has disappeared.

 

Usaam Auf Mukwaya was arrested at the HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting last month.

 

Their protest was sparked when the head of Uganda's AIDS commission said that gay people are driving up the number of infections in the country, but would not be targeted with prevention work.

 

The international meeting was organised by a group of countries and organisation, among them the US, the World Bank, the UN.

 

On Friday Pepe Julian Onziema, another of the protesters currently facing court charges for criminal trespass, received a phone call from a motorcyclist who identified himself as Amis.

 

He said he was with Auf when they were ambushed by three men in a police patrol vehicle in Nakasero on their way back from saying prayers at a mosque.

 

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Pro-gay activists arrested at AIDS meet

Wednesday, 4th June, 2008

By Arthur Baguma 

and Patrick Ogwang 

 

GAY rights demonstrators beat security and sneaked into the venue of a global HIV/AIDS meeting at the Imperial Royale Hotel yesterday but ended up under Police arrest. 

 

A woman and two men beat the security detail and sneaked with placards and a 67-page document soliciting for funding of their activities in Uganda. The activists, now detained at Jinja Road Police Station, were identified as Pepe Juliana Onzema, a freelance journalist, Usaam Mukwaaya and Valantini Katende. 

 

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