Advocacy & Campaigns

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today called for an immediate investigation into the excessive violence being used by officers at the Shebin al-Kom Prison in Monufiya against prison inmates since 25 January, which ha

FOR QUEER EQUALITY IN A DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S AFRICA

The MenEngage Alliance, a global network working worldwide to increase men’s support for gender equality and human rights, mourns the death of David Kato, a fearless advocate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersexed people (LGBTI) rights in Uganda.

We the undersigned condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of Mr David Kato, the Ugandan gay rights campaigner (Report, 4 February). We wish to state emphatically that homosexuality is neither a sin nor a social or cultural construct. It is a biological given.

As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Dakar, 2011, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of Africa and its peoples in the construction of human civilisation.

The rebellion of the poor has been spreading from town to town, from squatter camp to squatter camp, since 2004.