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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 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.

Human Dignity Trust's briefing note details how the new Criminal Code of the Gambia (2014) further criminalise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

On 24 February 2014, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed his assent to the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014 (AHA), passed by the Ugandan Parliament on 20 December 2013. This is the Human Dignity Trust's briefing on the Anti-Homosexuality Act.

A report produced by Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) debunking the myths that have led to the passing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill at the Parliament of Uganda in 2014, showing evidence that homophobia, not homosexuality, is the Western import to Uganda.