The year comes to an end on a frightening note across the region. Kenya’s descent into fascism is not masked by its grand infrastructure plans. South Sudan’s erstwhile allies in government are back to the battlefield—mutually targeting not each others’ soldiers but ordinary citizens of ethnicities believed to be politically supportive of either side. Then there is Uganda.
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December 10, 2013 – the 65th annual Human Rights Day – is set to be observed with a huge wave of commemorations across the world. An amazing diversity of people are set to participate, highlighting everything from the needs of refugees, to the accumulation of global arms, to state-sanctioned torture and disappearances, to access to life saving medicines, to violence …
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A towering figure of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Mandela’s life is sure to be celebrated by generations of people, everywhere, who care about human rights, democracy and anti-imperialist struggle.
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Today, December 1, is the 26th annual World AIDS Day. The day is a crucial moment for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to raise public awareness of the global pandemic, to secure concrete gains from authorities, and to show solidarity with people living with HIV/AIDS today. The day has been observed annually, on December 1, since …
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International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is a moment for trans communities – as well as their allies, friends and loved ones – to come together to remember, memorialise and honour the lives of those killed in transphobic hate crimes, and at the hands of transphobia in all its forms, worldwide. It is widely regarded as the most significant annual …
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IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
