Articles about Human Rights Groups

29 October 2012
South Africa’s president drops legal case against cartoonist 7 Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, whose position on HIV/AIDS and gay rights has repeatedly been cited by campaigners as holding the country back, has dropped a lawsuit against one of his critics.
7 December 2011
Hillary Clinton: Being gay is not ‘a western invention, but a human reality’ 112 Hillary Clinton has delivered a groundbreaking speech to a United Nations summit in Geneva following the US' declaration that its agencies will challenge the criminalisation of gay acts and identity overseas.
14 October 2011
‘Inspirational’ Ugandan lesbian campaigner wins human rights award 8 Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, the Ugandan gay rights campaigner, has been honoured with a prestigious human rights award.
7 September 2011
Ugandan ‘family’ campaign calls for progress on anti-gay bill 79 A 'family' campaign in Uganda is urging lawmakers to pass the anti-homosexuality bill.
3 December 2010
Poland gets first out gay elected official 28 Krystian Legierski has become Poland's first openly gay elected official.
8 February 2010
Human rights group urges government to stop gay deportation 7 Human rights groups have called on the British government to intervene in an asylum case which could see openly gay Alvin Gahimbaze deported to Burundi.
8 January 2010
Ugandan president Museveni ‘opposes death penalty for gays’ 15 President of Uganda Yoweri Moseveni opposes the death penalty for gays, the country's ethics minister has said.
14 December 2009
Archbishop of Canterbury makes first public statement on Uganda’s anti-gay law 28 The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has made his first public statement on the proposed anti-gay bill passing through Uganda's parliament.

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