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This case summary lays out how in 2015, the High Court of Kenya found that the failure by a government agency to register a LGBT rights non-governmental organisation, on the basis that homosexuality is criminalised in the East African country, is unconstitutional.

The 2015 judgment of the High Court of Kenya finding that the failure by a government agency to register a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights non-governmental organisation is unconstitutional.

This note by the Human Dignity Trust outlines the Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisations Bill 2015 published in the Ugandan government gazette on 10 April 2015. If passed, the Bill is likely to severely restrict the activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and in particular those who work in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.

In 2014, a judgment of the High Court of Botswana overturned the Department of Labour and Home Affairs’ refusal to register a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organisation.

This briefing by the Human Dignity Trust highlights key issues in the Uganda Prohibition of Promotion of Unnatural Sexual Practices Bill 2014. This Bill expressly seeks to further criminalise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and those who provide services to them.

Judgment of the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Singapore dismissing, on 29 October 2014, the joint appeals of Tan Eng Hong and Lim Meng Suang, who had separately challenged the constitutionality of section 377A of the Penal Code criminalising same-sex activity between men in Singapore.