Ugandan Human Rights Activist Awarded by Human Rights First

Today, Julius Kaggwa, a human rights activist in Uganda, received an award from Human Rights First for his work in opposing intolerance towards gay people.  In Uganda, intimate acts between people of the same sex are punishable with death, and being gay is punishable by life imprisonment.  Kaggwa commented that the anti-gay bill in Uganda's parliament "makes every person a potential criminal."  "Homophobia is in fact a death sentence," but "even if you remove the death sentence from the bill, it's still a death sentence," he said, because gay people "are cut off from social life, are denied health services, don't have access to treatments, and have no access to housing."  Kaggwa is sharing the Human Rights First award along with Viktoria Mohacsi, a Hungarian ex-European Parliament deputy of Roma ethnicity, who is being awarded for her defense of Roma Gypsies.Related Media Coverage:AFP - October 20, 2010"Homophobia in Uganda a 'death sentence:' activisthttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2gUfmUkepNYb--bFOJT5Zobw-UA?docId=CNG.be1430cf7ec438b63479d0e3742332c8.8b1

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