Some of the people who were recruited as UBOS Uganda Bureau of Statistics enumerators in Bwaise Parish, Kawempe Division, Kampala have refused to leave the division offices protesting unclear working terms.

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Background on Family Watch International ipas.org/wp-content/upl…
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tl;dr The supposed “African values” movement to persecute gay people is designed funded and run by white American extremists.

because they have come under scrutiny family watch international has been trying to be less public cnn.com/2023/12/18/afr… and were embarrassed when the multinational corporation that Slater’s husband works for was challenged by campaigners change.org/p/intel-corpor…

Nasty anti-gay conference happening in Uganda. Claims to be for “African values”. But an African human rights organisation has noted how the conference logo is the same one that was led by Family Watch International, a US group run by Sharon Slater.
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...there is nothing African about it.

Sharon Slater, a white Mormon woman, is guiding Africans on what they deem as 'African Family Values' at an event largely attended by African men, who have often done little to promote and protect gender equality on the continent.

... Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty in Uganda has sparked concerns. Backed by US evangelicals and right-wing extremist groups like Family Watch International, the conference promotes an agenda that is anti-LGBTQI+ and anti-choice. Despite its African title,...

We are not saying the US based Family Watch International is exporting hate into Africa, the conference's logo and the woman in purple dress at last year's event speak volumes about the rising anti-LGBTQ agenda in the region

The ongoing 2nd African Inter-Parliamentary...

A standing ovation for Asna Tabassum, USC valedictorian, and cheers for her “resistance to genocide” minor today at the USC student awards ceremony

Someone identifying as a feminist doesn’t mean that every action they take/decision they make is feminist. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

Students at two universities have rejected Linda Thomas-Greenfield as commencement speaker. The world will never forget or forgive her hand raised at the UN to veto a ceasefire. Twice. May she be held accountable, for the rest of her life, for genocide.
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'There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in'
—Desmond Tutu.

A nurse is shocked to find her brother's body among civilians hit by Israeli warplanes on Salah al-Din Street near the northern entrance of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Sick and wounded Palestinians are dying by the hour as they remain trapped in Gaza without medical care due to Israel’s closure of Rafah crossing.

The best trick you've ever seen

Every part of Rafah was bombed last night: West, central, and East. Evacuation and safe zones are meaningless terms for the Israeli genocidal war machine and have been since day 1. What will it take for media to stop gobbling up Israeli propoganda language as actual information?

💧A 100-year flood can happen more than once in a century.

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6/ HRF calls on Uganda to #FreeOliviaLutaaya who has been imprisoned for three years without trial before a military court. HRF reiterates UN Special Procedures’ call to the Ugandan regime to stop the brutal crackdown on its political opponents.

5/ The General Court Martial in Makindye, in the capital of Kampala, has repeatedly denied bail to Lutaaya. She remains held at Luzira’s women’s prison. nilepost.co.ug/court/195692/o…