Martin Ennals Award 2011 goes to African Gay Right activist Kasha

May 3, 2011

The Jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA), meeting in Geneva yesterday, selected Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera as its 2011 Laureate for her work for LGBT rights and marginalised people in Uganda.  Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, a Ugandan woman, is the founder and Executive Director of Freedom and Roam Uganda, a main lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organization.  Kasha has had the courage to appear on national television and international fora openly stating her sexual orientation and demanding equal protection of the law. This has led to her being constantly harassed and threatened. For more details and languages please go the website of the MEA www.martinennalsaward.org

This entry was posted on May 3, 2011 at 16:57 and is filed under human rights, Human Rights Defenders, MEA.

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One Response to “Martin Ennals Award 2011 goes to African Gay Right activist Kasha”

  1. Pascale Boosten's avatar Pascale Boosten Says:

    May 3, 2011 at 17:17

    here a link http://vimeo.com/15420132
    to our video of 5 LGBTI defenders expressing their views on the anti-homosexuality bill : among them Kasha Jacqueline and also our colleague David Kato, brutally killed in January 2011

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