Is Art Still Art If It Promotes Human Rights?
In a world torn by conflict, inequality, and censorship, the question persists: Is art still art when it takes a stand? When a mural denounces state v...
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Climate Change and Human Rights: The Intersection
Climate change is not just an environmental issue—it is fundamentally a human rights issue. As temperatures rise, extreme weather events increase, and ecosystems are disrupted, people's rights to life, health, food, water, housing, and culture are increasingly threatened.
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Announcing the Theme for the 2025 Festival: "DEFEND"
Through art, music, film, and dialogue, we will explore how individuals and communities can defend these fundamental rights and values in today's challenging world.
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Reclaiming Our Stories: How Art and Activism Are Reshaping Human Rights in Uganda
In Uganda’s ever-tightening civic space, where dissent is criminalized and visibility can be dangerous, the fight for human rights is taking on a new form
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SMUG’s appeal at the Uganda’s Supreme Court is a milestone in the advocacy of LGBTQ Rights in Uganda.
Yesterday members of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), an LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group, filed an appeal to the country’s Supreme Court challenging a r...
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One year of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality Act
The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 (AHA) has increased homophobia and violations against the LGBTQ community in Uganda. LGBTQ community members have rep...
Read MoreThe Uganda Census 2024 Fails Intersex Individuals
Intersex, people born with characteristics that do not mark them as male or female, will not count during the ongoing national population census. The...
Read MoreWill Returning the NGO bureau to the Internal Affairs Ministry curtail civil society work?
The civil society has decried Parliament’s amendment of the NGO law, saying it is threatening and retrogressive to the work of civil society. “We are...
Read MoreCreatives views on AI: Embrace AI but with creativity
Ugandan creatives have mixed emotions about the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As they grapple to come to terms with it, they are e...
Read MoreAnti Homosexuality Act ruling: EU, petitioners, deputy speaker reactions
Debate is still raging over the Constitutional Court’s ruling upholding the Anti Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023. The Court consisted of a panel of five...
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