Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Investigating matters of human rights at home and abroad. Listen to the podcast by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, hosted by Executive Director Maggie Gates and a team of Harvard faculty members acting as co-hosts, including Mathias Risse, Aminta Ossom, Rob Wilkinson, Kathryn Sikkink, and Yanilda Gonzalez.
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Investigating matters of human rights at home and abroad. Listen to the podcast by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, hosted by Executive Director Maggie Gates and a team of Harvard faculty members acting as co-hosts, including Mathias Risse, Aminta Ossom, Rob Wilkinson, Kathryn Sikkink, and Yanilda Gonzalez.
The views expressed are those of each speaker individually and not necessarily those of others in this recording, the Carr-Ryan Center, or Harvard Kennedy School. We support free speech as the cornerstone of learning and democracy and share these perspectives to foster open debate.
On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse speaks with Kasha Nabagesera, Ugandan LGBTQ+ rights activist and Executive Director of Freedom & Roam Uganda (FARUG), about her decades of work. In today’s conversation, Mathias and Kasha discuss: Kasha’s origins as an activist standing up for LGBTQI+ rights, why Uganda is so hostile towards LGBTQI+ people, Bombastic magazine and Kasha’s other work in fighting for rights through digital and print media, Freedom & Roam Uganda’s current initiatives, the current legal situation for LGBTQI+ people in Uganda after the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act, threats to her life and other gender rights activists in Uganda, and her international work.
Justice Matters
Investigating matters of human rights at home and abroad. Listen to the podcast by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, hosted by Executive Director Maggie Gates and a team of Harvard faculty members acting as co-hosts, including Mathias Risse, Aminta Ossom, Rob Wilkinson, Kathryn Sikkink, and Yanilda Gonzalez.
The views expressed are those of each speaker individually and not necessarily those of others in this recording, the Carr-Ryan Center, or Harvard Kennedy School. We support free speech as the cornerstone of learning and democracy and share these perspectives to foster open debate.
