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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Uganda Gay Activist Wins Human Rights Award
By Advocate.com Editors
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera x390 | ADVOCATE.COM
The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders has been bestowed on a
Ugandan LGBT rights activist who has faced myriad threats for her advocacy
work.
BBC News reports that Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, founder and executive
director of Freedom and Roam Uganda, was given the prestigious award Tuesday
by the 10 human rights organizations that make up the award’s jury.
"[Nabagesera] is an exceptional woman of a rare courage, fighting under
death threat for human dignity and the rights of homosexuals and
marginalized people in Africa," jury chairman Hans Thoolen said.
Nabagesera’s fellow Ugandan LGBT rights advocate David Kato was murdered in
the country in January. She was also targeted by a tabloid newspaper in a
2010 article with the headline “100 Pictures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak.” | m******1
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