The police officials in Uganda responsible for the unlawful arrests, detainment and torture of 20 LGBTQ+ persons in an LGBTQ+ shelter have now been charged. In July, over 50 days after the unlawful arrest in March, the 20 arrested persons, supported by the LGBTQ-friendly Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), filed a suit in…
China has finally approved the HIV-preventing drug Truvada for PrEP use after a lengthy campaign by activists, PinkNews reports. According to the Centre for Disease Control, Pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) is when people at risk for HIV take daily medicine to prevent HIV. PrEP can stop HIV from taking hold and spreading throughout your body. When…
News reports by VOA News show that LGBTQ+ refugees in Kakuma Camp in Kenya are experiencing multiple attacks. These attacks are being perpetrated by some other members of the refugee camp and local Turkana people. Although Kenya is the only country in East Africa that accepts LGBTQ+ refugees, homosexuality is still punishable by up to…
When 16-year-old Liyabona Mabishi decided to go out with her 18-year-old friend to pick up one of their friends to their party, she didn’t know it would lead to her death. This happened in Nkanini, Khayelitsha, southeast of Cape Town on the 21st of March 2020. According to the report on PinkNews, Liyabona Mabishi, an…
After a successful first season, Hulu has announced that ‘Love, Victor‘ will be getting a second season. The first season, a sequel to the 2018 coming-of-age drama ‘Love, Simon‘, was released on the 17th of June 2020 in 10 episodes. The official twitter account of the series made the announcement on Friday, August 7th, 2020….
Johns Hopkins Researcher, Carrie Lyons, presented a recent analysis of rates of HIV around the world by last month at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual). The study, Aidsmap reports, conducted between 2011 – 2018 collected data from about 8113 men who have sex with men in 10 Sub Saharan African countries. The…
An appeal court in Tunisia has upheld the conviction against two men arrested for gay sex but reduced their sentence to a one-year jail term. According to the report on Human Rights Watch, In June, police arrested the men, both 26, on suspicion of same-sex conduct in Le Kef, a city 175 kilometres southwest of…
On Wednesday, July 1, Lawmakers in the upper house of the parliament in South Africa passed a bill that that bars marriage officers from objecting to marrying same-sex couples. The bill was passed with 33 votes in favour of it. According to Times Live, this means the bill is one step closer to becoming law…
The Owl House is one of the newest series on the Disney Channel. In The Owl House, Luz stumbles upon a portal to a magical realm where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and a tiny warrior, King. Despite not having magical abilities, Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda’s…
Over the past few weeks, news about human rights violations and arrests in Zimbabwe have made it to the mainstream. The government of Zimbabwe has been cracking down on protesters who are speaking up against corruption. Online, many have pledged their support to the people of Zimbabwe in the form of tweets and Instagram posts….
The video opens in the church. There is singing, dancing, clapping and shouting. The quote on the screen is from Kenyan writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. It reads, “In struggle is our history, our language, and our being. That struggle begins wherever we are… then we become part of those millions dreaming to change the world.”…
On July 15, advocates and activists from all over Cameroon gathered together for the sixth annual Human Rights Defenders Day. The event is organised annually as a protest against violence and persistent abuses of human rights in Cameroon, and a commemoration of the assassination of Eric Ohena Lembembe, the executive director of the LGBT advocacy…
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