Letter from Human Rights Watch to Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Regarding

Categories

• Homophobia
• Human Rights
• International
• Stigma

Resource Type

Letters/Other Advocacy Documents  

Description

In this letter, Human Rights Watch addresses the damage done by the current U.S. administrations insistent export of abstinence-until-marriage HIV programs in Uganda and the Uganda presidents view that, We don't have homosexuals in Uganda. The letter points out the unassailable evidence that these programs deny young people accurate information on HIV transmission and on sexual health and intrinsically discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. With a legal ban in place against gay or lesbian relationships, the programs promote only permanent abstinence and are uniformly silent about safer sexual practices. Promoting abstinence until heterosexual marriage evidences a continuous will on the part of your government to drive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people underground, or deny that they exist.  

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Published

2007-August-23