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  • Queer emergency aid Uganda and LSVD call for support for queer communities and activists

    Berlin/ Kampala, 03.04.2024. Despite national and international protests, the Ugandan Constitutional Court upheld large parts of the draconian anti-homosexuality law on April 3, 2024. The mere “attempt” of same-sex acts can be punished with up to ten years, the “execution” with life imprisonment and repeated same-sex acts can be punished with the death penalty. Human…

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  • Petition for persecuted LGBT+ – Sign now!

    In this petition, the Alliance Queer Emergency Uganda calls on the German government to grant humanitarian visas to LGBTIQ+ people from Uganda who are particularly at risk. Since the draconian and inhumane “Anti-Homosexuality Act” came into force, LGBT people in Uganda have been excluded and persecuted at the state, church and social levels. They face…

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  • Materials

    Queer Emergency Uganda Social Medie (Sharepic) Social media post (suggested text) Flyer to print, send, copy Sticker

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  • Open letter to the federal government

    Dear Chancellor Scholz,Dear Foreign Minister Baerbock,Dear Minister of the Interior Faeser,Dear Development Minister Schulze,Dear Queer Representative Lehmann, the so-called Anti-Homosexuality Act is a Uganda law that intolerably threatens and restricts the life, liberty, and civil rights of LGBTIQ* people in Uganda. This law became effective when signed by the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,…

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  • LGBTQI+ persecution in Uganda: emergency alliance formed

    New queer alliance launches major nationwide fundraising campaign for LGBTQI+-.Community in Uganda and calls for political sanctions Berlin, 23.6.2023 — Under the umbrella “Queer Emergency Uganda” starts today a broadAlliance of over 40 organizations, institutions and individuals from Germany,Ghana and Uganda a nationwide fundraising campaign. 100 percent of the money goes tothe East African country’s…

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