LGBTQ+ Rights
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Uganda Must Repeal Anti-LGBTQ+ Law Immediately
Tags Share On May 29, 2023, President Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023 into law. This law puts LGBTQ+ Ugandans at grave risk and undermines basic human rights in continuation of the increasing crackdown on civic space throughout the country. State action, including through repressive legislation, has made Uganda hostile to LGBTQ+ people. In…
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International Organizations Condemn the Shutdown of Ugandan Organization Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Call for Authorities to Reverse the Decision Immediately
Tags Share The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the decision to shut down the operations of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a leading non-governmental organization committed to protecting and advancing the human rights of LGBTQI+ individuals in Uganda. We call on the Ugandan government to reverse this decision, and to bring an end to the longstanding persecution…
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Honduras has entered a critical moment for LGBTQ+ rights
Tags Share This May, a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights delegation traveled to Honduras aiming to reinforce the implementation of reparations ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a key legal victory: Vicky Hernández et al. v. Honduras, the Court’s first trans rights case. Alongside our partners at Red Lésbica Cattrachas, the group…
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Kerry Kennedy, mother of Vicky Hernandez celebrate Mother’s Day and discuss long-awaited justice
Tags Share San Pedro Sula, Honduras – Mother’s Day was a reunion seven years in the making for Kerry Kennedy and the mother of slain trans woman and activist, Vicky Hernandez. After climbing the steps to enter Vicky’s childhood home, the two women entered a tearful embrace. “Thank you for keeping hope alive and for…
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Kerry Kennedy demands continued justice for Vicky Hernandez, her family
Tags Share Tegucigalpa, Honduras — Visiting Honduras a year after the Inter American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark ruling holding the government of Honduras accountable for the murder of trans woman and activist Vicky Hernandez, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy demanded justice not only for Vicky’s life but the life…
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Frank Mugisha: RFK Human Rights Award gave Uganda’s LGBTQ+ community international prominence
Tags Share By Ohimai Amaize One evening in the spring of 2011, Frank Mugisha was in the middle of work mobilizing advocacy against Uganda’s anti-gay legislation when he received a phone call. It was Ethel Kennedy, founder of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights on the line. Mugisha, who heads Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)—the country’s largest…
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This Transgender Day of Visibility, we must see ourselves in others to become stronger
Tags Share In recent days, Black law students descended upon the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., a statement of solidarity with, and inspiration by Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. “It’s breathtaking, but it’s also very inspiring just to see another, one, female, but also a Black female who looks like myself being in such…
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Vicky Hernández et al. v. Honduras and Its Significance
Tags Share Vicky Hernández was an LGBTQ+ rights activist in Honduras who advocated for rights of trans individuals and sex workers. Vicky’s murder occured on June 28, 2009 during the coup d’etat while a curfew was in place. It was followed by subsequent negligence on the part of the Honduran State that led to her…
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Exigimos justicia por el asesinato de la activista trans Thalía Rodríguez en Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington D.C., 11 de enero de 2022] Las organizaciones Red Lésbica Cattrachas y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights repudiamos el asesinato de Thalía Rodríguez, mujer trans y activista de los derechos de las personas LGBTI, ocurrido el día de hoy en su casa ubicada en el cerro Juana Laínez, en Tegucigalpa. Thalía era…
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We demand justice for the murder of trans activist Thalía Rodríguez in Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington D.C., January 11, 2022] The organizations Red Lésbica Cattrachas and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemn the murder of Thalía Rodríguez, a trans woman and LGBTI rights activist, which occurred today at her home located on Juana Laínez Hill, in Tegucigalpa. Thalía was a trans woman who dedicated more than 20 years…
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19 Ugandan LGBTQ+ detainees obtain favorable opinion from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Tags Share Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Children of the Sun Foundation (COSF), Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights) welcome the opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) declaring the detention of 19 LGBTQ+ Ugandans arbitrary under international law. On March 29,…
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