June 2020 — Kakuma Refugee Camp: Refugees Approach Victor Mukasa Again, Kenya In June 2020 the Ugandan LGBTQIA+ refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp reached out to activist Victor Mukasa, saying “Victor, we are dying, we are dying in the…
On 3 July 2014, a 4-part series about further violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp aired on Kuchu TV, a platform created by Ugandan LGBTQIA+ activist, Victor Mukasa. Victor’s work at the Kakuma Refugee Camp started in 2014 after the…
In an important series of 5 episodes aired on 29 June 2014, LGBTQIA+ rights activist, Victor Mukasa, provided context to the violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, using his TV platform, Kuchu TV. The episodes highlighted that the central issue…
In June 2014, Ugandan LGBTQIA+ activist, Victor Mukasa, created a Youtube channel, Kuchu TV, which aired between 2014 and 2015. The TV station was used as a platform to give daily updates from within the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya,…
في يونيو 2014، أقام المصور الكندي من أصل صومالي، آبدي عثمان، معرضًا بعنوان "لبيب" في جامعة ساسكاتشوان بكندا. يتميز المشروع بصور فوتوغرافية كبيرة وفيديو قصير مزدوج العرض للسوميا دلمار، وهي امرأة متحولة جنسياً من أصل صومالي. الـ...
Nikilas (Nikki) Mawanda, an intersex activist from Uganda and founder of an NGO in the country*, was granted LGBTIQ+ asylum status in the U.S. on 20 March 2014. Asylum was granted months after fleeing his home in Uganda due to…
تم منح الناشط والزعيم الأوغندي المتحول جنسيًا، فيكتور موكاسا، بمساعدة من منظمة "Immigration Equality"، وضع اللجوء في الولايات المتحدة في 27 يونيو 2013 بعد فراره من أوغندا خوفًا من الاضطهاد بسبب هويته الجندرية. غالبًا ما يُطلب من فيكتور بشكل غير رسمي...
On 31 October 2006, Alexandra Rubera was granted asylum in South Africa. Rubera, a trans woman from Burundi, faced arrest and death threats from private citizens and the police in her native country on an ongoing basis. Alexandra moved between…
On 25 February 2006, Kenyan-born Biko Beauttah arrived in Canada to seek asylum because being considered homosexual is a criminal offence in her home country. Biko left Kenya a few years prior to attend college in the USA. Having come…