Uganda

In 2016, police blocked Uganda’s fifth annual Pride Parade. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)
Despite past arrests, Uganda activists plan Pride 2018
Police officers trying to stop HRAPF staff and partners from participating in the sit-in. (Photo courtesy of HRAPF)
Sit-in success: Uganda police promise armed guards
Logo of the African Queer Youth Initiative
Young queer Africans take a stand
Adrian Jjuuko, executive director of HRAPF (Erwin Olaf photo courtesy of Facebook)
Sit-in at Ugandan police station: ‘the only secure place’
A security camera captured this photo of two of the four burglars who break into the offices of HRAPF on May 22 and killed a security guard.
Unchecked criminals hit Ugandan civic groups
Secret screening of QKIFF. (Photo courtesy of Kamoga Hassan)
Uganda police raided queer film festival, so it went underground
Accompanied by a line-up of his white male advisers, President Donald Trump signed a "global gag order" that prohibits U.S. funding for many programs affecting the health of LGBT people and millions of women. (AP photo courtesy of The Nation)
Trump’s gag order denies anti-AIDS services to 10,000+
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
Revisiting horrors of 2017 in hopes of ending them
Scene from "Love Is Love"
African activists’ new song promotes LGBT equality
Police raid Queer Kampala International Film Festival (Photo courtesy of Queer KIFF via Gay Star News)
Police raid shuts down Ugandan LGBT film festival
Rural communities in Uganda unfortunately aren't the only places where residents' uninformed fears and hatred of their LGBTI neighbors leads to the type of human rights violations frequently called "mob justice." (Artwork courtesy of Vincent Kyabayinze)
'Mob justice': Ugandan artist’s appeal for human rights
Kakuma refugees gain supporters, need more help
Working to boost African rights advocacy in words and pictures
Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister (Photo by Kai Mork via Wikimedia Commons)
Anti-LGBT forces wield 'traditional values' as a weapon
Kakuma Camp food distribution site
Food shortages, violence still plague LGBTI refugees
Trump 'gag rule' hurts AIDS battle in Kenya, Uganda