RD Magazine: The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

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ALTHOUGH the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB) remains stalled one year after it was first introduced in the Ugandan Parliament, the intimidation, harassment, and violence it was designed to incite remain an everyday part of life, and an urgent human rights crisis for LGBT Ugandans. … Kaggwa is also the executive director of the Support Initiative…
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ARTE+7: Intersexualité

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Intersexualité Si l’on en croit les statistiques, tout nouveau-né est soit un garçon, soit une fille. Et pourtant, ce n’est pas toujours aussi simple à déterminer ! Le sexe biologique d’un être humain s’exprime en effet à plusieurs niveaux et chez les intersexuels, l’apparence physique ne va pas forcément dans le même sens que les…
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Sophia Siedberg: My Response to CARES

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Author: Sophia Siedlberg, OII-UK TO understand the controversy surrounding Dr Dix Poppas and Dr Maria New, you have to look at what they are doing at face value and then ask yourself how what they are doing helps patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH). Dr New proposes the use of dexamethasone to “ensure” that a…
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The Standard: Court to rule on intersex convict in November

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Republished from an article by Judy Ogutu: AN intersex convict will have to wait until November when he is likely to know his fate in a case he has lodged seeking for legal recognition. A Constitutional court said on Wednesday it will on November 9, deliver its verdict on the suit filed by Mr Richard…
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The Himalayan Times: Project for LGBTI rights

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MINISTRY of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW) and Blue Diamond Society (BDS), an NGO for third gender rights, are jointly working to amend legal provisions to ensure equal rights for the third gender. Sher Jung Karki, under secretary at the ministry said that third genders suffer violence, harassment, discrimination, exclusion and stigma. After the…
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