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pressure and the tireless work of the Coalition and
its partners.
Educating the wider public is to be well-planned
taking into account the prevalent religious and
cultural beliefs that are widely held. Promoting
LGBTI issues from a certain angle that is likely to find
the most receptiveness is vital to make an in-road
into people’s minds. Amnesty International in its
“Campaigning Manual” 62 devotes a chapter on how
to campaign on LGBTI rights. 63 A study conducted
by Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
entitled “LGBTI Organizing in East Africa: The True
Test for Human Rights Defenders” 64 provides lessons
learnt from LGBTI activism in Southern Africa and
gives recommendations on how to advance the
cause of LGBTI rights in the East African setting. In
2010 Protection International published a manual
for LGBTI activists entitled “Protection Manual for
LGBTI Defenders” 65 which helps to identify security
threats that are specific to LGBTI defenders, and
offers practical steps on how to improve personal
security. Also in 2010, G-Kenya Trust published “My
way, your way, or the RIGHT way” 66 , a handbook
describing the rights compiled in the Yogyakarta
principles as relevant in the Kenyan context.
In summary, LGBTI individuals face violations of
their basic human rights throughout the East and
Horn of Africa. For their advocates, defenders of
LGBTI rights, there are many challenges to achieving
general acceptance of LGBTI rights as human rights
though progress has been made in recent years.
As these challenges are met with cooperative
action by both mainstream and LGBTI human rights
defenders, the violations of LGBTI rights such as
discriminatory legislation and treatment can be
addressed much more effectively.
62 Amnesty International (2001) Campaigning Manual. Amnesty
International Publications. http://web.amnesty.org/
pages/campaigning-manual-eng
63 See also the article on campaigning in this publication.
64 Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights.
65 Available at: http://www.protectionline.org/Protection-
Manual-For-LGBTI.html
66 G-Kenya Trust (2010). My way, your way, or the RIGHT way.
Nairobi. Available at: www.gaykenya.com/GKTBOOK.pdf
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