14-XI, Washington, Reception Honoring Frank Mugisha

Reception Honoring Frank Mugisha

Location: OSI-Washington, D.C.
Event Date: November 14, 2011
Event Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Contact:
Giselle Kasim
1-202-721-5600
rsvp

Please join the Council for Global Equality and the Open Society Foundations for a reception in recognition of Frank Mugisha and the other human rights defenders who have fought tirelessly for LGBTI equality in Uganda.

Frank Mugisha is the 2011 recent recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and serves as the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a leading organization of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex movement in the country.

The event will also feature photographs by Tadej Žnidarčič and Bénédicte Desrus on LGBTI rights in Uganda, from the Open Society Foundations Moving Walls exhibition.

back to the top of the page
Related Information

Delivering Timely Justice in Africa
Kersty McCourt
October 4, 2011
blog BLOG  
Two people closely involved in efforts to reduce the number of prisoners awaiting trial in Uganda talk about the challenges they face.

 

International Partnership for Advancing Transgender Health
Salzburg, Austria
October 2, 2011
The Sexual Health and Rights Project and the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco, are convening the “International Partnership for Advancing Transgender Health” seminar on October 2–8, 2011, as part of the Salzburg Medical Seminars International.

 

The Global Fund at a Crossroads: Recommendations for the Next Five Years
Shannon Kowalski
September 23, 2011
blog BLOG  
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is set to review recommendations made by a high level panel. If adopted, the panel´s broad and far-reaching recommendations could fundamentally change the way the Global Fund does business.

 

Time for the Dutch to Stop Forcing Medical Surgeries on Trans People
Heather Doyle
September 16, 2011
blog BLOG  
Thanks to ongoing advocacy by transgender rights activists, lawmakers in the Netherlands will draft legislation that removes the requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery and sterilization as a precondition for changing their gender.

 

Amplifying Voices
September 2011
This third edition of Amplifying Voices, the magazine of the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, examines the meaning and dimensions of equality, diversity, and inclusion, and the barriers to their realization in East Africa.