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  Uganda - Call to Action by FARUG on ban of sex worker conference

  Posted: November 23rd, 2010, 3:20am PST

  20 November 2010

  CALL TO ACTION:

  UGANDA: Government should break the chains of injustices against sexual minorities and lift decision to ban Sex Workers Human Rights workshop.

  On the 17th of November 2010 the State Minister for Ethics and Integrity Hon Nsaba Buturo called off a conference organized by Akina Mama wa Afrika a Pan African Women’s Non Governmental Organisation based in Kampala, Uganda. He did so by sending a strong worded letter to the Hotel General Manager giving “directives not to host a Prostitutes Conference run by Akina Mama wa Afrika and if they do so, will be abetting illegality in Uganda”. It should be noted that Akina Mama sent a letter to the Minister informing him about the details of the conference. He never responded to it, but instead, sent a threatening letter to the hotel management with the objective to suspend the meeting.

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  Amnesty International - Statement on Ugandan Government ban of sex worker workshop

  Posted: November 23rd, 2010, 3:10am PST

  re-published from Amnesty International website

  Uganda: Government should reverse decision to ban workshop intended to discuss human rights issues affecting sex workers

  Amnesty International today condemns the decision by the Ugandan government’s Ethics and Integrity Minister to ban a three-day civil society workshop that had been intended to discuss human rights issues of concern to sex workers in Uganda and other East African countries. The organization calls on the Ugandan government to reverse the Minister’s decision stopping this workshop. The government must also unequivocally state its commitment to supporting human rights work.

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  NSWP Statement in Support of Sex Workers in Uganda

  Posted: November 23rd, 2010, 2:06am PST

  The NSWP has published this statement of support on their website nswp.org

  NSWP Supports Sex Workers in Uganda and Their Right to Organise

  Last week, the Sex Workers Leadership Institute organized by Akina Mama Wa Afrika and set to take place in Kampala, Uganda from 18 to 20th November was shut down by Uganda’s Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Nsaba Buturo. In a letter to the hotel hosting the conference, Buturo states that “prostitution is a criminal offence in Uganda” and as a result “the hotel is an accomplice in an illegality.”

  Sex workers throughout Africa are vulnerable to violence from the police who criminalise and harass us, health institutions that refuse to treat us, and civil society members who deny us our humanity. By preventing sex workers from organising, the Ugandan government is complicit is perpetuating these grave injustices. Criminalising income generating activities that people engage in to survive, such as sex work, is not an effective way to reduce crime or protect safety.

  The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) stands in solidarity with sex workers in Africa who are reaching out to one another and building a grassroots network that stands up for sex workers’ rights. Uganda’s continued criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex workers is a violation of human rights, and we strongly oppose the harm it does to our communities.

  Read or download the statement on the NSWP site.