See: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26320102
This clearly discriminates all LBGTs [lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender]. It violates very basic human rights of equal treatment and no discrimination on any ground, including sexual orientation that is laid down in various international treaties. For example the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. But next to these global United Nations funded documents, this new act is in violation of the regional judicial mechanism of the African Convention On Human and Peoples' Rights. The human rights could be invoked in either a national court of law or at the African Court of Justice and Human rights, or could be addressed before the United Nations human rights committee.
I initiated community-based research, where I am supervising my students to analyze the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act and its impact on LBGT members of the Ugandan community in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and their refugee status. This research is being carried out in close cooperation with the NGO Pearl of Africa. Next to a thorough analysis of legal tools, political and social [civil society] mechanisms will be explored.
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