Events

HRAPF Holds Awareness Workshops on Abortion

HRAPF’s Community Capacity Enhancement Program has continued to achieve its objective of empowering marginalized persons and stakeholders to be able to promote the respect of human rights. In the previous months, the Program has conducted 5 awareness sessions on the laws and policies that govern abortion in Uganda. These sessions were held with sex workers in Kyenjojo and Mbarara and Health workers in Luwero, Mityana and Mubende. The purpose...

Dismissal of Abortion Case Against a Health Worker

Since November 2016, HRAPF has been handling a case in Mbarara involving a health care worker who provided post-abortion care to a young lady that regrettably died of post-abortion complications. The health worker was charged with manslaughter following the death of the patient, and has been answering said charges before the Chief Magistrate. During this time, HRAPF has worked tirelessly to ensure that the client is afforded a fair...

Kenya Court of Appeal declares Anal Examinations as unconstitutional

Last week the Kenya Court of Appeal made a land mark decision on subjection of suspected gay men to forced anal examinations in a bid to obtain evidence of engagement in consensual same sex conduct against them, in a case that was filed by the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), an LGBTQ rights legal advocacy organisation in Kenya. The ruling which declared anal examinations as a...

Developing a Training Manual for Health Care Workers Working with Key Populations

HRAPF has for the last two days been engaged in the process of reviewing the training manual for health care workers working with Key Populations. The objective of the exercise is to develop a manual that comprehensively covers the issues and vulnerabilities of all sub-categories of key populations which will be used to train health care workers to provide sensitive and friendly health services to Key Populations (KPs). Once...

Make use of the Resource Centre at HRAPF

We are pleased to inform all our partners, friends and clients that HRAPF runs a knowledge/resource Centre and we welcome all those who wish to take advantage of the available resources. We have in stock all of HRAPF’s major researches, periodic publications, analyses and guides to interpretation of laws and policies affecting marginalised persons. Additionally, we have resources contributed by our partners and from prominent authors on topics of...

HRAPF intervenes in sex worker’s case in Lira

Over the weekend, HRAPF was called upon to intervene in the case of a female sex worker in Lira who was arrested on Friday the 19th of February 2018 after being locked in her room with a client for hours by a police officer. The officer had previously raped her and continued to ask for sexual favours, which she was unwilling to grant. It is thought that both the...

HRAPF to sponsor LGBTI persons to do a law course

Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum(HRAPF) will sponsor LGBTI persons to pursue a Diploma in Law at Kampala’s Law Development Centre. The persons to be sponsored are LGBTI persons that have been trained as community paralegals by HRAPF. The paralegals are expected to pick application forms from the Law Development Centre and apply for the Diploma by Friday 15th June 2018, for the 2018/2019 lot. Those that are admitted...

HRAPF Resumes work after 2nd Break-In

On Friday 9th February, HRAPF suffered its second break-in in less than two years. Two guards were gravely injured but nothing was stolen. However, security systems and office doors were damaged. HRAPF held a sit-in at Old Kampala Police station to demand for investigations into the attack and provide security at the premises. A meeting was held with the police station leadership and concessions made, including provision of police...

Uganda LGBTI Violations Report 2016 released

On 29th September 2016, HRAPF together with its partners under the Consortium on Monitoring violations based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity launched the 2016 Uganda LGBTI Violations Report 2016. The report is the third in a series of annual violations report that have been produced by HRAPF and the Consortium since 2014. This violations report is a collection of verified violations against persons on the basis of actual...

HRAPF releases legal analysis of the crackdown on Uganda LGBTI Pride Events

HRAPF has issued a legal analysis of the recent events where the Police raided a night club where an LGBTI beauty was being held as part of the Pride Uganda 2016 events. The analysis can be found at https://hrapf.org/legal-analyses/