Its with sadness that I inform you of the cancellation  Akina Mama wa Afrika conference for the Commercial Sex Workers Leaderhip Institute that was to start on the 18 to 20th November at the Serena Hotel, Ranch on the Lake.This is because the Minister of Ethics and Integrity Hon Buturo directed the hotel to cancel their booking as they were hosting a conference for a certain group that is illegal. In his letter to the hotel the Minister states that prostitution is illgeal and so should the hotel go ahead and host this conference on their premises they would be complying with illegalities.

Background.
In 2008 again the same Minister stopped a sex workers confence which was scheduled to take place in Entebbe and the conference  had to relocate and have the confence in Mombasa, this time around the conference unlike in 2008 had started. It is a violation of human rights of the highest order and we need all the support available to condemn this abuse. Everybody has a right to work and this means that the Minister is undermining the work the sex workers are involved in. Its their bodies and they have the right to choice and bodily integrity. So for the Minister to dictate what they should or shouldn’t do with their bodies is a violation of the CSW rights.
Akina Mama wa Afrika has been very involved in fighting for sexual minorities rights in Uganda and needs all your support at this tying time.

We need ally our support to condemn this action and call for the decriminalization of CSW in Uganda.
You are not free until everyone is free.

For more details please contact
Solome Nakaweesi Kimbugwe on

snkimbugwe@gmail.com or +256772463154.

Regards

Kasha .N. Jacqueline
Executive Director
Freedom and Roam Uganda
Office:+256 (0) 31229 4863
Cell: UG-+256772463161
Email: kasha@faruganda.org
Alternative: jnkasha@gmail.com
Website: www.faruganda.org