British officials meet Ugandan and Kenyan activists to target far-right homophobia
Ugandan activist Frank Mugisha addressed the gathering
British officials met recently in London with human rights activists from the United Kingdom, Uganda and Kenya to plan tactics for opposing multi-national far-right homophobia.
The program was sponsored by the British advocacy group Protection Approaches (PA), which combats identity-based violence.
Among the activists addressing the meeting was Frank Mugisha, the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG).
The meeting explored the implications of transnational far-right organising in opposition to LGBTQI+ rights, and how the UK parliament can respond.
Discussions focused on the tactics that far-right partisans use to disrupt democratic rights-based systems, the impacts of these disruptions on sexual and gender-based rights in the U.K. and abroad, and how members of parliament can help counteract these trends, PA said.
The meeting was chaired by Dame Nia Griffith, MP, the minister for equalities. It included remarks from Mugisha; Erick Mundia, the policy and advocacy manager at Kenya-based Ipas Africa Alliance, an abortion rights advocacy group; Klara Wertheim, the head of global programs at the British LGBTQ advocacy group Stonewall; and Farida Mostafa, PA’s Queering Atrocity Prevention Manager.
