Sunday 29 September 2013

Kasha Jacqueline Receives Nuremberg Award


Congratulations to LGBTI rights campaigner Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, who today received the 2013 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award:

On Sunday, 30 September, 2012, the jury of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, chaired by the Lord Mayor of the City of Nuremberg, Dr. Ulrich Maly, met in the Hirsvogel Hall of the Tucher Mansion Museum and made the following decision concerning the tenth award [pictured above].

The Award will be presented in Nuremberg Opera House on Sunday, 29 September, 2013.

You can read more about Kasha, and why she's up for the award, here.

In 2011, a fellow collague of Kasha's, Frank Mugisha, was awarded the Rafto Prize and, earlier this year, a doctorate by Ghent University for his work with SMUG.

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