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Dagmar Wilson, founder of Women Strike for Peace and organizer of a 50,000 women protest against nuclear weapons in 1961, has passed away. In Egypt, protesters are calling for a million person march...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Anti-gay bill not on agenda in Uganda Parliament today
The reviling anti-gay bill introduced in 2009 and debated last Friday appears to not be on the agenda in Parliament today in Uganda, where it had been slated for debate. Some speculate it is because...
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. – Chicago Defender (November 28, 1962) It’s Malcolm X’s birthday. He would have turned 86 if he were alive today. Is...
View ArticleQuick hit: New Nigerian law would criminalize merely supporting gays and...
Earlier this year, the Ugandan parliament re-opened debate on its now internationally infamous “Kill the Gays” bill. Now, we can add Nigeria to the list of countries proposing to ban being gay. The...
View ArticleUgandan LGBTQ org sues U.S. evangelist for inciting persecution
A Ugandan LGBTQ rights group has filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against a Massachusetts-based evangelist, Scott Lively, for violating international law by inciting the persecution of gay men and...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu writes in protest of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bills
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Yesterday South African anti-apartheid activist and former archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote an op-ed urging members of the Uganda parliament to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill....
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Egyptian cartoonist Doaa Eladl publishes a controversial cartoon criticizing FGC. The North Dakota Senate has approved a ban on abortions after six-weeks of pregnancy, the most restrictive in the...
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U.S. religious leader linked to Uganda’s Kill the Gays bill is sued for committing a crime against humanity. Great work Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG)....
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Ann’s gender-reversed parody: A response to Emily Yoffe. Breast cancer stigmas in Uganda. “When does an Academic become a Whore?” Spike Jonze and Her: Who are we writing out of the future? Apparently,...
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Uganda passed a bill mandating life imprisonment for “aggravated homosexuality.” The Salvation Army needs to apologize. A historical perspective on the systematic devaluing of young black women....
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