Le 3 juillet 2014, une série en 4 parties sur les nouvelles violences dans le camp de réfugiés de Kakuma a été diffusée sur Kuchu TV, une plateforme créée par l'activiste LGBTQIA+ ougandais, Victor Mukasa. Le travail de Victor au camp de réfugiés de Kakuma a commencé en 2014 après...
Dans une importante série de 5 épisodes diffusés le 29 juin 2014, le militant des droits LGBTQIA+, Victor Mukasa, a fourni un contexte à la violence dans le camp de réfugiés de Kakuma, en utilisant sa plateforme télévisuelle, Kuchu TV. Les épisodes ont mis en évidence que la question centrale...
En juin 2014, l'activiste LGBTQIA+ ougandais Victor Mukasa a créé une chaîne Youtube, Kuchu TV, qui a été diffusée entre 2014 et 2015. La chaîne de télévision a été utilisée comme une plateforme pour donner des mises à jour quotidiennes depuis le camp de réfugiés de Kakuma au Kenya,...
Founded in Kenya in 2014, the Malindi Desire Initiative (MDI) began as a support group for transgender people living with HIV. The organisation was officially registered as an ITGNC organisation in 2016. The Malindi Desire Initiative was born from the…
Le 23 août 2013, le conseil d'administration de Transgender Education & Advocacy (TEA), composé de trois Kenyans transgenres - Audrey Mbugua, Maureen Muia et Annet Jennifer - a intenté un procès à l'État kenyan et au Conseil de coordination des ONG pour avoir refusé d'enregistrer TEA en tant que...
Le litige d'action stratégique (SAL) est un processus de droit d'intérêt public par lequel les membres d'un groupe marginalisé saisissent délibérément et de manière proactive un tribunal dans le but d'établir un précédent juridique positif avec des implications juridiques qui vont...
On 14 June 2013, Kenya’s High Court upheld Batha Nthungi’s petition filed a year earlier, in which she declared that being stripped and physically assaulted by the Kenyan Police violated her human rights (A.N.N v Attorney General). The Court agreed…
En juin 2013, Neo Musangi, artiste et activiste non-binaire kényane, s'est produite publiquement devant le bâtiment des Archives nationales du Kenya. L'objectif de cette performance était de démanteler le binaire du genre et de sensibiliser les...
In March 2013 Audrey Mbugua, a trans woman, filed a case (JR Case No. 147 of 2013) at Kenya’s High Court to compel the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to change the name on her high school diploma. She also…
The three directors of the Transitioning Africa (TA) coalition met in Nairobi with Dr Chloe Schwenke from the USAID Africa Bureau. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss support from the U.S. Agency that would culminate in an African Blueprint for the Provision of Comprehensive Care for Trans Persons, similar to the Blueprint in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Following the meeting, TA sent a letter to the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), with a proposal to form a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO). TA suggested that this proposed partnership would collectively work on developing a model appropriate to African realities, creating a Blueprint for Transgender and Intersex Health Care for sub-Saharan Africa.
Batha Nthungi, a trans woman, filed a constitutional petition (240 of 2012) against Kenya’s Attorney General for violation of her human rights on 6 June 2012. She had been arrested in 2011 and stripped by a police officer after it…
Ushirikiano Panda, formed in December 2011, officially changed its name to Jinsiangu on 27 May 2012. The name Jinsiangu, comes from the two Swahili words, ‘jinsia’ and ‘yangu’, meaning ‘my gender’, a name proposed by co-founder Barbra Wangare, who is…
In December 2011, Ushirikiano Panda was established in Kenya, making it the second Kenyan trans organisation after TEA (Transgender Education & Advocacy). The organisation was founded by Gullitt Amakobe, a trans man, Sidney, an intersex person, and Barbra Wangare, a…
In the case, Richard Muasya v. the Hon. Attorney General, High Court of Kenya on 2 December 2010, Muasya lost his case of claiming violations of his constitutional rights, in which he asked for the legalisation of a third gender.…
Transgender Education & Advocacy (TEA) successfully filed change of name applications on behalf of 3 trans women in 2010. Their names were changed in their passports, but the Kenyan state failed to carry these changes through to their national identity…
On April 18, 2010, a small group of activists from across Africa held a roundtable discussion in Nairobi, Kenya, during which they drafted the African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, which is also known as the Queer African Manifesto According to the Black Agenda Report,…
Transgender Education & Advocacy (TEA) was established by Audrey Mbugua in 2008, working to defend the human rights of trans persons in Kenya. TEA is an international human rights organisation working towards defending and promoting the human rights of transgender/transsexual…
Between 2007 and 2022, legal advocacy for intersex person in Kenya saw massive strides. Strategic Action Litigation (SAL) is a process in Public Interest Law whereby members of a marginalised group deliberately and proactively take a test case to court…
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…