FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2011 CONTACT: Ian Koski at 202-224-4216 or Ian_Koski@coons.senate.gov Senator Coons: Uganda should end effort to criminalize homosexuality Africa subcommittee chair calls on Uganda’s…
Read moreMay 11, 2011 – Parliament in Uganda adjourned today without voting on the “anti-homosexuality” bill. The Council understands that the current lame duck parliament may convene again on…
Read moreTuesday, May 10, 2011 For Immediate Release Contact: Harry Gural Phone: (202) 225-9400 Cell: (202) 281-0670 WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Barney Frank today released the following statement regarding…
Read moreFrom our Friends at AllOut.org Conservative lawmakers in Uganda are working to advance a bill that would sentence LGBT people to death. That’s right, death for countless lesbian,…
Read morePress Release from Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional law Uganda (CSCHRCL) Just days after opposition leader Colonel Kizza Besigye was deliberately blinded with pepper spray…
Read moreThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the highest human rights official in the UN system, released a video and a pamphlet last week decrying violence and discrimination…
Read moreThe Council hopes that this is just a last desperate act by MP Bahati as the curtain closes on the current parliament in Uganda. We urge the United…
Read morerepost from African Activist In less than 20 days after the United States unfroze $350 million in foreign aid to Malawi, the government is claiming that Norwegian and…
Read moreApril 13, 2011 – The State Department last week released its annual human rights report. Once again, the Council for Global Equality applauds the State Department’s effort to…
Read moreThe Council for Global Equality on Friday participated in a Congressional briefing hosted by the LGBT Equality Caucus to mark the release of the U.S. State Department’s annual…
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