By Mbabazi Busingye | Project leader
In our continued efforts to safeguard the rights of sexual minorities in accordance with the Yogyakarta Principles, Human Rights First Rwanda Association has been advocating for modest efforts to integrate sexual minorities into Rwandan society in the long run.
It is against this back ground that we identified a strong and timely opportunity for sexual minorities to be protected through the inclusion of relevant questions in the decennial national census in August 2022.
Meetings were held with various stakeholders with the purpose of engaging and lobbying them in recognizing the plight of LGBTIQ community inRwanda and also the inclusion of sexual minorities in the Census counting that was slated from 15th August to 31st 2022
The ultimate goal of including the proposed questions of sexual orientation and gender identity inquiry points in the national Census data collection was not attained however the plight of Transgender women and Gender-non conforming persons and the need of inclusion of sexual orientation and Gender identity in the upcoming Census counting in Rwanda was brought to the attention of the concerned government Departments which included the National Institute of statistics.
The positive opportunity that happened during the advocacy is that the National Institute of Statistics accepted to conduct Surveys in future on the LGBTIQ community, because the prepared Census questions had not been factored to include another gender other than the traditional male-female binary.
With your continued support we will strive to advocate for the rights and betterment of the lives of the LGBTIQ community in Rwanda and the Greatlakes region,
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By Mbaabazi Busingye | Project leader
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