#Ugandan refugees

[rodspurethoughts]

10-Year-Old to Hold Rock Painting Fundraiser & Auction for Preschool for Ugandan Refugees

FORT WORTH, TX /24-7PressRelease/ — Paisley Elliot knows a lot about helping others and having fun. The fifth grader from Grapevine, Texas, has the big ambition of helping to build a Montessori-inspired preschool for Ugandan refugees at the Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement in Southwestern Uganda. She has begun raising the $35,000 that the project will require. To continue on her path and get others…

[thegirlmirage]

Hello my posts seem to be getting some attention, please consider donating and sharing to my current mutual aid goal for Queer Ugandan refugees. We've previously raised money for this lesbian refuge before, securing their fence and replenishing life saving supplies, now to avoid sickness - their latrine is about full and very likely to overflow from the rains, causing sicknessness amongst the camp, they need £315 for materials, labour, and sanitary products and this will also provide them with privacy.

Please donate (minimum £5) and share, share, share this campaign as it's the fastest way to get it fulfilled soon

£20/£315 !!

[bijoumikhawal]

only going "rape and torture are bad" when people defend Palestinians is pretty fucking scummy, speaking as someone who knows more than the average person on this site does about torture, and hates it real bad and knows a lot of people repeat torture apologia because it's deeply pervasive in modern culture

[tearsofrefugees]

I am who I am: A non-binary Ugandan refugee stands outside the safe house that was founded for often persecuted LGBTQ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya. This previously unpublished portrait from 2020 was recently featured in our Photo of the Day archival collection. Photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Nichole Sobecki made this image as part of her work on how COVID-19 was affecting Kenya.

[cinnamons1999]

Hello,

I’m really sorry to reach out like this and hope I’m sorry if im bothering you. I’m a queer refugee from Uganda, now in Gorom Refugee Camp of South Sudan, where I’ve been in exile for nearly five years due to a life-threatening situation related to my sexual orientation. I represent over 300 LGBTQ+ individuals who are in urgent need of support. If you’re able, any small donation would greatly aid our survival. If not, sharing this message might help us reach someone who can. Your support could make a significant difference in our lives.

https://gofund.me/4d80b32c

Thank you so much for considering.

i dont have money & cant donate myself

[makingqueerhistory]

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide--and describe--the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world--thanks to the digital revolution--fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers. Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he's encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls "the new transgender culture wars." His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis--"women's hearts in men's bodies"--who run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it.

(Affiliate link above)

[genderkoolaid]

In my gender studies class today we were talking about immigration and asylum specifically in regards to trans women, and it was a very interesting topic, but when someone asked if we had any data or stories about the struggles trans men faced when seeking asylum, the teacher said no. This isn't the teacher's fault, I don't expect her to go out and personally collect data, but it's sad to me. We never talk about trans men or transmascs when talking about trans issues. The one time trans men were mentioned was the briefly say that they got periods, and that was just a sidenote.

This is not to say that trans women aren't important, it's important to hear about these issues, it's just something I noticed. idk

I don't know of any studies on immigrant transmascs (or abinary people for that matter), but I do know of some specific situations that may be relevant:

Yuen "Chin" Tzu is a diabetic Chinese trans man who was held in solitary confinement by ICE for 19 months and denied medical care; the article talks about imprisoned trans people are specifically targeted by solitary confinement.

A Ukrainian trans man talked about how he had to detransition while fleeing the country with his mother

Possibly less relevant but there is also Chriton Atuhwera, a trans man and Ugandan refugee who was killed in a refugee camp in a suspected hate crime and a Tunisian refugee who was stabbed to "make an example out of him"

I would send these to your teacher as things she can talk about alongside the information on trans women.

[kaapstadgirly]

Yesterday, here on tumblr, someone reached out to me, seeking help. And now I am here seeking yours. I don't care about your opinions and views. The matter of the fact is that everyone deserves to be treated as human beings, and they deserve the rights of human beings as we all do.

Right now, we have a violation of the LGBTQ+ community in Uganda after its government passed one of the harshest anti-gay laws, which includes punishment by death.

Here are two Al Jazeera articles on this:

1. Displaced twice: Gay Ugandans on the run face upheaval in Kenya

2. Ugandas anti lgbtq law causing wave of rights abuses activists say

Yesterday, @annoyingpaintertragedy (please take a look at their blog) reached out to me regarding this. They mentioned that many of Ugandas lgbtq civilians were forced to flee Uganda to neighboring Kenya. But situations are just as bad in Kenya. They spoke of the Kakuma refugee camps where they now live along with many other refugees.

I myself am just now learning of this. But if you have any information or links of organizations that may help regarding this situation, please send them to me or add them to the reblogs.

[lgbtiqrefugeesblog]

Urgent Hunger Crisis in Refugee Camps: Opportunity to Save Lives

Dear Friends

I bring urgent news of a hunger crisis unfolding in refugee camps across Africa. The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced a drastic reduction in food rations, affecting the most vulnerable among us. This alarming development threatens the lives of countless refugees who rely on these rations for survival. However, amidst this crisis, there is an opportunity for the platform to make a difference and save lives.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Pablo or you can call me Peter, and I stand as a leader among East African refugee in camps. I am deeply committed to ensuring the well-being and dignity of my fellow community members. Together, we have launched the African LGBTIQ'S Refugee Camp Victory Gossiping/spreading awareness about our horrific situations.

Our mission is clear: to look vital support for us residing in refugee camp in Africa. Many have fled from the dire consequences of the anti-homosexuality act of 2023 passed by the Ugandan Parliament and others family, community threats, seeking refuge far from home. However, their journey is far from over, especially now with the impending food crisis.

The African LGBTIQ'S Refugee Camp Victory Gossiping/spread awareness aims to address the urgent needs of our community members, including sustainable food and clean water supplies, safe shelter, comprehensive medical care, reliable internet access, educational resources, adequate clothing, and hygiene products.

The recent announcement by the WFP regarding reduced food support amplifies the urgency of our mission. With food rations set to decrease by 10-20% starting july 2024, the situation is dire. We are facing unimaginable challenges, and your support can make a significant difference in our lives.

By contributing to the African LGBTIQ'S Refugee Camps Victory Gossiping/spread awareness, you can help ensure that those of us living in the camp have access to the basic necessities required for survival and dignity. Your generosity will provide more than just aid—it will offer hope and resilience to those who need it most.

Join us in our mission to combat hunger and provide a brighter future for African LGBTIQ'S refugees in Africa. Together, we can make a tangible impact and save lives in the face of adversity.

Your support matters and be a part of this life-saving initiative: please DM me because we haven't gotten any donations links. #DM

Thank you for your compassion and solidarity during this critical time.

With gratitude and hope,

Pablo-refugee

[thecanadianweeb]

Please Read:

This is an important message that I recommend you all to read and possibly donate towards.

So I recently made a friends with a queer Ugandan refugee who had fled for his safety to The Kakuma Refugee camp in South Sudan.

I am aware that there has been and currently is a scam going around profiting off of these poor souls cuz I was a victim of one.

But basically they don’t have a lot of money or legal recognition as being queer is also illegal in Sudan. Because of this, they don’t have access to proper healthcare and sanitation and a lot of queer refugees have died or gotten sick from many things, including mosquitos.

Unfortunately I never seem to have enough money or a way of sending it to these sites as I don’t have a credit card or job yet.

If you could donate towards this cause, it would be grately appreciated.

Here is the link: https://lgbtq-kakuma.com/

[politicaldino454]

What is happening in the DRC? (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

One of the things that has contributed to the conflict in the DRC is that there have been tensions between different ethnic groups. After elections in 2023, there were clashes between two groups one being the ADF (the Allied democratic forces) and the M23. M23 is a Tutsi group with ties to Rwanda and Uganda while the ADF has ties to ISIL. There have been clashes for a long time, which has resulted in the displacement of 6.9 million people and has killed millions of people over the 3 decades. The violence that is being noticed now, is not new. During the Rwandan genocide, there were many that fled into the Congo including some Hutu extremists. The extremists begin organizing militias in the Congo. The Tutsis began to organize militias. After the Rwandan genocide, the Tutsi led government got involved in the Congo, which at the time was called the Republic of Zaire, and troops were sent into the country. This was the start of the first Congo war. The leader of Rwanda at the time was  Paul Kagame and the leader for Zaire was  Mobutu Sese Seko. The justification for it was that the Hutus were still a threat to the Tutsi and that the government was harboring the Hutu extremists. Rwanda waged war in which thousands died. Rwanda started the first Congo war with the help of other African states, including Uganda, Angola and Burundi. Zaire’s then-opposition leader, Laurent Kabila, coordinated the coalition. There were some casualties that were former Hutu militants and armed group members, but there were many casualties that were refugees and non-combatant Congolese in North and South Kivu, in eastern DRC.

Rwanda won the first war and Kabila was installed as the leader of Zaire, and the name of the country went back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kabila, not wanting to look like Rwanda had complete influence over him, started removing Tutsis from his government, and ordered all foreign troops out of the country. Hutus were allowed to form at the border again, in which Rwanda decided to invade again. On The Congolese side there was Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe. On the Side of Rwanda there was Ugandan, and Burundi militaries, along with other militias. Kabila was assassinated and his son, Joseph Kabila, took power. The second Congo war cam to an end. It is estimated that the death toll may have reached over three million people. While there peace agreements, violence was still a problem. M23, a group that formed in the 2000s, and became a big problem in which the UN had to step in to help the Congolese army in dealing with M23.

Other issues in the country have contributed to the violence. One of which has to do with mining, since the DRC is home to the worlds largest reserve of metals and rare minerals. Because of this, different groups have become incentivized to get involved in the conflict. Not only local groups, but groups outside of the area. Natural resource mines once owned by US companies, were sold to Chinese companies. M23 rebels are using Chinese drones and weaponry. Uganda is involved using Chinese weapons.

M23 resurfaced in 2022 and gained control over large areas in north Kivu. The US brokered a deal but it was not helpful in stopping the conflict. International peacekeeping was brought in to help deal with the conflict, but the locals did not want the peacekeepers there. There is a slow withdrawl of the peacekeepers.

The Congolese military and the people in east DRC still deal with continued attacks from ADF, and there are continued exchanges between M23, Rwandan troops, Congolese forces, and other militia groups.

[georgefairbrother]

On 18th September 1972, BBC News reported that the first 193 Ugandan refugees, fleeing persecution by the country’s military dictatorship, had arrived at Stansted Airport, Essex. Over half of the arrivals had British passports, and housing and immediate needs would be overseen by the Ugandan Resettlement Board.

Uganda’s Asian community, numbering around 55 000, many of whom ran family businesses and small enterprise, were ordered in August 1972 to leave the country within 90 days by President Idi Amin. Amin had publicly denounced Ugandan Asians as ‘bloodsuckers’, threatening that any who had not left by the arbitrary deadline of November 8th would be interned in military detention camps.

Many of the initial flight of refugees had endured frightening experiences prior to their departure from Uganda, at the hands of Amin’s troops. "On the way to the airport the coach was stopped by troops seven times, and we were all held at gun point," one refugee told reporters. Another stated that he had been robbed of personal valuables and Ugandan currency on the way to Entebbe airport.

News reports at the time cited some opposition within the UK over the acceptance of the Ugandan Asians. The Leicester local authority mounted a newspaper campaign urging refugees not to come to their region seeking jobs and housing. The BBC asserted that, in hindsight, the resettlement programme was seen as ‘a success story for British Immigration’.

The loss of the hardworking and successful Ugandan Asian community devastated Uganda’s agriculture, manufacturing and commerce. Idi Amin was deposed in 1979 and died in Jeddah in 2003, having been responsible for the deaths of as many as 300 000 Ugandan civilians during his reign of terror as President. In 1991, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni invited the expelled community to return home to help rebuild the economy.

The Wilson Labour government also had to grapple with a refugee crisis from a former African colony.

In February 1968, BBC news reported;

"…Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya have arrived in Britain, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing from laws which prevent them making a living…"

Many Asian people living in Kenya had not taken up Kenyan citizenship following the country’s independence from Britain in 1963, but possessed British passports. Under Kenya’s Africanisation policy, non-citizens required work permits, and were being removed from employment in favour of Kenyan nationals. There was growing public demand for laws to prevent non-citizens from owning businesses or even operating as street and market traders. As a result, British passport holders were leaving Kenya at the rate of 1000 per month, leaving a huge deficit in skills and experience within the business community and civil service.

Fearing a backlash over the large numbers of Asian immigrants, Home Secretary, and future Prime Minister, James Callaghan, rushed through the Commonwealth Immigration Act, which made it a requirement that prospective immigrants must have a 'close connection' with Britain.

This led to disagreement in Cabinet, with Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, George Thomson (1921-2008) arguing;

"…To pass such legislation would be wrong in principle, clearly discrimination on the grounds of colour, and contrary to everything we stand for…"

In 1971, the Heath government made further legislative changes that would mean that (some) immigrants from Commonwealth countries would be treated no more favourably than those from the rest of the world, and that tightened restrictions on those who stayed by linking work permits to a specific job and location, requiring registration with police, and reapplication to stay in Britain each 12 months.

The Patrial Right of Abode lifted all restrictions on those immigrants with a direct ancestral connection with Britain.

Home Secretary Reginald Maudling (later famous for being smacked in the face by Irish MP Bernadette Devlin, and for having to resign over a corruption scandal linked with disgraced property developer John Poulson) denied that this was, in effect, a 'colour bar', telling the BBC;

"…Of course they are more likely to be white because we have on the whole more whites than coloureds in this country, but there is no colour bar involved…"

Unsurprisingly, not everyone was convinced.

Vishna Sharma, Executive Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, described the bill to BBC News as, "basically racially discriminatory, repressive and divisive," and added, "It will create divisions amongst the Commonwealth citizens already living in this country on patrial and non-patrial basis. It will create day-to-day bureaucracy and interference on people living in this country. It will create more hardship for people wanting to enter into this country."

(Source; BBC reporting and history.com. Photo Credits; BBC News)

[yamchaisawesome]

Help out my mate @kakebezi. They’re dealing with a lot of shit right now and they’d really appreciate any money you can provide.

[trans-sarah]

Am Trans Sarah by names and Ugandan by nationality and also one of the lesbians currently living in kakuma refugee camp camp located in Kenya. Am one of victims who fled from their home country Uganda because of persecution, life prisonment. death from the religious and traditional people who are threat to my life.

Am 25 years old

I ran to near by country seeking for asylum. Am a human right defender and my work is to talk to donor and bring them on board and also represent and speak to them about our current situation that we as the LGBTQi especially Trans, lesbians and gay children face in the camp.

So with humbly request and on the behalf of my fellow lgbtiqs advocating group and our fellows lgbtiqs refugee in kakuma refugee camp we kindly request for your support, advocacy, layers, organization and individual donors to come out and fight for our freedom, rights and donations for our survival because of our situation that we are going through each and every single day here in kakuma refugee camp.

[ptseti]

UGANDAN SISTER CHIDES PRO-ISRAEL AFRICANS This Ugandan sister has a message for Africans supporting Israel as it continues what has been called a genocide in Palestine. African Stream’s position is Israel is not Africa’s friend. For decades, the Zionist state has supported regressive movements on the continent and is, overall, a destabilising force. The affinity Africans have for Israel is rooted in a warped version of the beautiful religion of Christianity, as many wrongly conflate modern Israel with the Biblical one. Meanwhile, modern Israel is involved in looting Congo’s minerals, training repressive regimes and interfering in African disputes, such as recognising Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in contravention of the African Union’s position. In addition to exporting tear gas used on Kenyan protesters, Israeli companies are now in on green colonialism. That is a term used to describe how colonial powers use environmental concerns to keep a grip on poorer states. The Israeli embassy in Kenya has partnered with the office of the First Lady to create a carbon credit mine. For many in Africa, this appears to justify displacing local communities, so multinational companies can keep polluting. Plus, in Israel, widespread anti-African racism has been used to justify deportations of refugees and sterilisations of Ethiopian Jews. Since 7 October, Israel has killed more than 18,400 people in Gaza, an enclave with half its population being children. So, we pose a question to some of our African Christian brethren who support Israel: What part of Israeli actions in Palestine are in line with Biblical teachings? #Africans #Uganda #Genocide #Palestine #Israel #Kenya #Colonialism #ProPalestine

Taken from - IG - afrcian_stream

[hellfirezine]

Hey everyone! I forgot to post this when I got it because I'm bad at email but:

Dear Stranger Things Queer Community,

On behalf of Rainbow Railroad, I am reaching out to give our sincerest thanks to the Hellfire Zine: Dungeons Dragons & Demobats Contributors and the Stranger Things queer community for their generous gift.

As a part of our community, your support is instrumental in moving forward Rainbow Railroad’s mission to help at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide. We are so grateful to count you in as a supporter and champion of our cause.

This year, we have a lot on our plate - we'll be moving 800 refugees to safety, including 600 Afghans, and we'll assist thousands more through cash assistance, our work with our partners on the ground, and our private sponsorship programs in the U.S. and Canada. We are also monitoring the situation in Uganda, where members of the LGBTQI+ are facing more violence and discrimination than ever after the Ugandan government passed an Anti-LGBTQI+ law a few weeks ago, further criminalizing the community. Requests for help from Uganda have already dramatically increased, as we've received over 1,000 requests for help in 2023, compared to around 300 in all of 2022.

Your donation will support this important work - empowering LGBTQI+ people to find safety and live authentically with integrity. We could only do our work with community members like yourselves.

Thank you again for your support. Our staff, board, volunteers, and the individuals Rainbow Railroad support are truly grateful. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about our work or are interested in continuing to partner with our organization.

Regards, Brittany Skerritt (she/they) Senior Development Officer, Community Giving Rainbow Railroad