Join us for the opening night of "Art and Resistance," a group art show featuring artists from Uganda, Burkina Faso, and the U.S. Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Mor Mor Studio, and the Center for...
Updated: November 7, 2016
November 6, 2016A Massachusetts evangelist will ask a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that accuses him of waging a long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. ... Read the full piece here.
November 9, 2016Over the last several weeks, CCR has received 634 messages of support and solidarity with our clients from Sexual Minorities Uganda . As we head into court in Springfield this morning with SMUG, we...
November 9, 2016, Springfield, MA – Today, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, appeared in court to argue that a federal lawsuit...
November 7, 2016Anti-homosexuality Evangelist pastor Scott Lively has requested a judge toss out a "crimes against humanity" case against him before it can reach federal court. The lawsuit, which Lively has called "...
November 7, 2016Scott Lively, the US pastor accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ while preaching homophobia in Uganda, is trying in a last-ditch effort to stop the lawsuit. The minister has repeatedly attempted to...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will speak about LGBTQIA persecution and criminalization on a panel discussion presented in conjunction with the opening of an art exhibit. Exhibit artists...
Updated: December 1, 2016
December 1, 2016“Federal, state, and local officials’ lack of response to the AIDS epidemic, as well as calls for routine mandatory testing of various segments of the population and quarantining people with AIDS,...
December 6, 2016On November 9, under a grey sky with light rain, I drove to federal court in Springfield, MA, to hear summary arguments in Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) vs. Scott Lively , a civil lawsuit in which...
January 5, 2017Many of us bid 2016 goodbye with a toast of “good riddance” – what with the deaths of cultural icons like David Bowie and Prince, the Pulse massacre, the horror of Aleppo, and of course the rise of...
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