Global News by Tag: violence
PRISHTINA, KOSOVO – While Kosovo's Constitution does not restrict its definition of marriage to the union between a man and a woman, same-sex couples are not recognized by law either. Article 24 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, but LGBTI advocates say social stigma is strong. Gay men and lesbians in Albania and Kosovo chose to hide their faces in these photos out of fear of violence and persecution.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Hundreds of women marched for justice and peace last week in a protest against rising food and fuel prices and recent brutality by police and other security operatives. Wearing white for peace, they carried empty saucepans with holes, mingling sticks and wooden spoons, which they banged as they walked from Kiira grounds to Yusuf Lule Road and then back to Kiira grounds in Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
KAKAMEGA, KENYA – Lucas Mbakaya, 22, has been in physical and emotional pain since the post-election violence swept over his country in 2007 and 2008. During the violence, a police officer shot him in the groin. After he was shot, his wife left him because of the nature of his injuries, Mbakaya says.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Badru Kiggundu, Uganda’s chairman of the electoral commission, announced Sunday that incumbent President Yoweri Museveni was the winner of the presidential contest that took place on Friday, Feb. 18.
Museveni received 68.38 percent of the vote, Kiggundu said. The victory gives Museveni another five years as president, a job he has held since 1986.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR – At 10, Roushan Illahi says he was too shy to recite his poems in front of his friends or in school. He shared them only with his mother.
When it came to music, he was shy too.
“I never thought I could sing, so I never did,” Illahi says.
But in 2007, Illahi debuted both his poetry and his music. He recorded his first rap song in a home studio, using only a microphone and his home computer.
BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE -- Locked in a filthy cell that was built for eight inmates, but filled with more than 25 women, Nyasha Maphosa, 32, a sex worker based in the town of Gokwe in the Midlands province, writhes in agony as the torture of the previous night takes its toll on her diminutive figure. She has endured 48 hours of detention after being picked up by the Zimbabwe Republic Police patrol team. The charge: loitering for the purposes of prostitution.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR – Restrictions, curfews and violent protests continue in Kashmir, as the conflict between the government, separatists and angry citizens rages on. The volatile situation that began in June has had a disastrous impact on daily life. The cost of basic goods is still on the rise and black markets are thriving. Many residents have been unable to get medical care and many employers are urging their workers to relocate or resign.