Uganda

Edward Mwebaza, executive director of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), addresses the media. (Photo courtesy of HRAPF)
Violence against Uganda’s LGBTQI+ community surges in new year
Uganda releases two women arrested for kissing
Fox Odoi-Oywelowo at the global equality summit in South Africa in 2024. (Enrique Anarte photo courtesy of Thompson Reuters Foundation)
Uganda’s pro-LGBTQI+ rights legislator loses parliamentary seat
Ugandan police arrest 2 women for kissing in public
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters)
Uganda: Don’t see good news in latest election results
Illuatration shows Ugandan police breaking up a Pride celebration. East Africa Visual Artists used this artwork as an illustration of its article about the court ruling on the ban of the 2014 LGBTQ rights workshop.
Uganda court upholds ban on LGBTQI+ advocacy workshop
MP Asumani Basalirwa is the new face of homophobia in the Parliament of Uganda. (Photo courtesy of the Parliament of Uganda)
Uganda: Voters reject anti-LGBTQI+ lawmakers
Edward Mwebaza, executive director of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), addresses the media. (Photo courtesy of HRAPF)
Uganda drops the first case brought under its Anti-Homosexuality Act
Sarah Bireete.(Photo courtesy of CPARuganda.com)
Ugandan rights defender Sarah Bireete freed
Anthony Masake, new executive director of Chapter Four Uganda. (Photo courtesy of X / Twitter)
Uganda orders LGBTQ rights organization to shut down
Illustration combines the Kenyan flag and strands of rainbow colors. (Illustration by Rex Opara courtesy of Minority Africa)
‘I’ve been waiting 10 years’: Queer refugees’ new hope for dignity in Kenya
Veteran LGBTI rights attorney Alice Nkom remains locked in a legal dispute with Cameroonian authorities who accuse her of “financing terrorism” — a charge she vehemently denies, declaring that her principled stand is in defense of the rule of law in Cameroon.
2025 LGBTQ rights update: African activists resist growing repression
Anita Among, speaker of Uganda's parliament
Backlash against Uganda Parliament Speaker over homophobic remarks
Uganda urged to repeal anti-gay law to combat HIV
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , who signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act into law in May 2023. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Uganda LGBTQI advocacy groups denounce human rights abuses
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (Noushad Thekkayil photo courtesy of Euractiv / NurPhoto / Getty Images)
Kazakhstan Senate approves ban on positive depictions of LGBTQ people