By Mbabazi Busingye | Programs Manager
Sexual Minority Rights are Human Rights and the tolerance of the LGBTI/Q comunity in the gret lakes region is a far fetched thought especially in the Rural Community.
Advocacy of these rights requires much effort and strategy especially from the civil society.
It is in this line that Human Rights First Rwanda Association took part in a sensitization drive where Civil Society and Local Government institutions.
This was in a bid to lay down the fundamental Human Rights that are enshrined in the Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that are relative to Sexual Minority Rights regarded as Human Rights in general.
There was positive outcome from this workshop where the local administrators gave assurances of protecting these rights especially where aggrieved and further still providing support to victims of stigma and discrimination.
By Mbabazi Busingye | Programs Coordinator
By Mbabazi Busingye | Programs Manager
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