Anti-deportation campaign updates
Jamal still in UK - Forced removal to Uganda failed “BN” wins judicial review, Judge shuts down campaigning in her name Lydia and Bernard campaign update In UK, Pakistani gay man wins asylum
Tag Archives: LGBT
NCADC news, 28 January
Daily news round-up from NCADC today’s top stories: Brenda Namigadde: Massive campaign to stop UK government’s removal order/death sentence Funeral for murdered Uganda gay rights activist David Kato “La luta continua” Spending cuts impact on services for dispersed asylum seekers in UK
Supreme Court rules in favour of LGBT asylum rights
The Supreme Court has ruled that two gay men from Iran and Cameroon have the right to asylum in the UK. Lord Hope, who read out the judgment, said: “To compel a homosexual person to pretend that his sexuality does not exist or suppress the behaviour by which to manifest itself is to deny his [...]
LGBT asylum - article in Independent is inexact and alarmist reporting
98% sent back? The Independent’s article makes a bad situation worse It’s painful when one has to criticize a friend, especially when he is trying to be helpful, but an apparently gay asylum friendly article in the May 23 issue of the “Independent,” “Virtually all gay asylum-seekers sent back to persecution” calls for some critical [...]
Online protest against Malawian Government
Malawian Justice System Violates Human Rights Join the Online Protest against Malawian Governments horrendous persecution of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga To: Malawian Government, Secretary General of the United Nations and the South African Government We condemn in the strongest terms the conviction of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in a court in Blantyre for [...]
LGBT asylum claims are being refused
Damning report says practically all UK LGBT asylum claims are being refused; Border Agency “cruel and discriminatory” LGBT Asylum News, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 The UK Home Office tells those fleeing this for UK asylum to return, ‘relocate’ and ‘be discrete’. According to the UK’s lesbian and gay asylum and immigration charity the UK Lesbian [...]
Uganda to legislate ‘death penalty’ for Homosexuals
Dear Friends and Activists, Please see below a petition for our Ugandan brothers and sisters and against the ‘Anti-Homosexualality Bill’. A draft of the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” was introduced by Ndorwa West MP, David Bahati on October 14, 2009. Paragraph 3 of the draft bill sets out provisions on what it names as “aggravated homosexuality,” which [...]
