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Published 5/9/2011 | Updated 5/9/2011
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LGBT activist Kasha Nabagesera received the Martin Ennals Award for her contributions to LGBT rights in Uganda and Africa. We at RFSU have had the privilege of working with Kasha for several years and have gotten to know this woman who is brave, driven, and has a great sense of humor. The fight against the discrimination of homosexuals is a dangerous undertaking in Uganda. We were all reminded of this when David Kato, a famous LGBT supporter and close friend of Kasha, was brutally murdered in Uganda recently. Despite this, Kasha and her colleagues, peers, and other LGBT activists move forward resolutely.
Photo: The Martin Ennals award
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Congratulations from CambodiaOn behalf of LGBT activists in Cambodia. I am very much happy to see how you have done great job for the community. You are inspired us to move and move forwards. We are working for better life.:-)srorn
Said: Srorn 6/29/2011 5:47:20 AM
Congratulation Kasha.It is a pleasure for me to say congratulation for your effort so far to defent the right of others and the courage you have even when a colleague of yours (David) was murdered.You deserve it and it is my wish that you should work had to defend that title as your rewards lies ahead.Let me teld you something. Recently in Cameroon, our government was against one international organisation for promoting and defending the right of LGBTs persons and was against their fundings sent to Cameroon. It was not easy when the minister of communication of Cameroon spook bitterly against the said NGO and to be beneficiaries.You should be courageous in your fight so far as you can defend your self for I think that another man's drug can be another man's poison. That is to say others may not like LGBT persons and others may dislike but people have their right and should do what please them so far as there exist laws which can defend such right.I thing that one of the highest thing you have to do is to sensitise the public and to eneable the public know that LGBT persons too have their right.Once more keep it going, be courageous and congratulation.
Said: EMMANUEL NGENGE NGEH 6/13/2011 10:33:28 PM
good workcongratulations kasha, you are a woman of substance and your work will go a long way in helping other marginalized people of Uganda and Africa at large
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