When the LGBTI activist David Kato was murdered last month, newspapers carried worldwide condemnation of the act. Advocacy organisations issued statements, as did President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Commentary
Not a Hope, Nor a Prayer
Ugandan LGBTI activist David Kato killed
We are deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of David Kato, a courageous activist at the forefront of the LGBTI campaign in Uganda, and contributor to Henrietta Moore’s Modern Lives research project.
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The new bill outlawing FGM in Kenya
On 7th September 2011 the Kenyan Government passed a bill outlawing female circumcision or FGM. In what ways and to what extent Kenya’s prohibition of FGM will be enforced is still to emerge. In the Marakwet community, where Henrietta L. Moore has been researching female initiation and social change, she has already observed the ways in which initiation ceremonies are sensitive to wider national and international political pressures.
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