Uganda

British officials meet Ugandan and Kenyan activists to target far-right homophobia
Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court, where the two SMUG activists faced assault charges, isn't always a tranquil place. This is the scene last August when the court took up the case of 36 members of Uganda's politcal opposition who were charged with terrorism.
Ugandan court dismisses assault case against LGBTQI+ activists
Astraeus O'Levin, a transgender woman living in Mombasa, Kenya, visits the the Hapa-Kenya resource centre last year in Mombasa. (Dylan Robertson photo courtesy of The Canadian Press)
LGBTQ+ Africans look to Canada for help as anti-gay laws expand
Students at Bethel Church's School of Supernatural Ministry students worship enthusiastically. (Max Whittaker photo courtesy of SFGate)
Exporting conversion therapy
In 2023, a medical clinic officer examines a transgender patient at a USAID-supported anti-AIDS clinic in Uganda. (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters)
In Uganda, AIDS-fighting drop-in centers have closed, UN reports
Pastress Aggy
‘I am scared for my life’: Surviving Uganda’s harsh anti-LGBTQ law
Nicholas Opiyo, the former executive director of Chapter Four Uganda
Uganda: Human rights activist Nicholas Opiyo quits Chapter Four
Ugandan LGBTQ community turns to U.K. to rescue anti-HIV work U.S. has abandoned
Scene lasf month at famine relief program in Gaza (Hatem Khaled photo courtesy of Reuters)
Millions learn that U.S. promise to continue life-saving foreign aid was false
Anti-LGBT arrests rising in Uganda, new report finds
Flavia Zalwango, programs director at HRAPF
Uganda NGOs denounce impact of USAID cuts on human rights
Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament Anita Among was a forceful advocate for a bill last year instituting the death penalty for people repeatedly convicted of gay sex. (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters/WSJ)
Uganda’s homophobic speaker predicts Trump will end U.S. sanctions
Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Chris Unger photo courtesy of Zuffa / Rolling Stone)
‘The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children’
Anti-HIV program in Malawi teaches patients how to protect themselves with antiretroviral medications. (Robbie Flick photo courtesy of Creative Commons license.)
American-made catastrophe: Growing toll of losses and deaths from USAID demolition
Gay tourists pictured on the GoThaiBeFree website, which promotes gay tourism in Thailand.
Uganda’s anti-gay law has huge costs; Thailand’s equal marriage pays dividends
Pepfar-supported health counseling in Kenya.
Health programs shutter around the world because Trump has paused foreign aid