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BRIEF BIO: VICTOR MUKASA

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Victor Mukasa
Victor Mukasa

Victor Mukasa is a human rights defender from Uganda with extensive experience advocating for LGBT rights in Africa. He is a founding member of several Ugandan and regional human rights organizations focused on sexual minorities, human rights defenders, and transgender support. Victor has also served in leadership roles for international LGBT organizations and worked to mentor activists and build advocacy capacity. He initiated the first Pan African transgender workshop and co-founded an exhibition celebrating transgender African human rights defenders. Currently, Victor works as an independent consultant on minority rights, advocacy campaigns, and movement building.

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Bio: Victor Mukasa Victor Mukasa is a human rights defender from Uganda with tremendous dedication and contribution to human rights struggles in Africa and globally. He is a founding member of several Ugandan and regional human rights groups, including Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), 2004, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (EHAHRDN), 2005, Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) , 2002, Trans Support Initiative, Uganda (TSI-Ug, formally TITs-Ug), 2007and the Pan African e-networks; African Solidarity (2006) and Trans Africa (2008). Victor has also served as a board member of many African and international LGBT groups, including Gender DynamiX (South Africa), Behind the Mask (South Africa), Coalition of African Lesbians (Pan African), and the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA). He has also worked at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) as Program Associate at the Africa Regional Program. Thereafter, in 2011, Victor joined the secretariat of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) as the Coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders Project and later Advocacy Advisor for East Africa. Through these organization, he has mentored individual activists and organizations in various tools needed for their struggles. Victor was the initiator of the Nairobi Trans* Declaration 2007 and the first Pan African Transgender workshop supported by IGLHRC, from which the project Proudly Transgender and African, a longtime dream by Victor himself and artist and human rights defender Gabrielle Le Roux, emerged. The duo hasa dream of having similar exhibitions focusing on human rights defenders in Africa. Victor is currently an independent consultant specializing in minority human rights, effective campaigning, defending human rights defenders as well as movement building.

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BRIEF BIO: VICTOR MUKASA

  • 1. Bio: Victor Mukasa Victor Mukasa is a human rights defender from Uganda with tremendous dedication and contribution to human rights struggles in Africa and globally. He is a founding member of several Ugandan and regional human rights groups, including Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), 2004, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (EHAHRDN), 2005, Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) , 2002, Trans Support Initiative, Uganda (TSI-Ug, formally TITs-Ug), 2007and the Pan African e-networks; African Solidarity (2006) and Trans Africa (2008). Victor has also served as a board member of many African and international LGBT groups, including Gender DynamiX (South Africa), Behind the Mask (South Africa), Coalition of African Lesbians (Pan African), and the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA). He has also worked at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) as Program Associate at the Africa Regional Program. Thereafter, in 2011, Victor joined the secretariat of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) as the Coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders Project and later Advocacy Advisor for East Africa. Through these organization, he has mentored individual activists and organizations in various tools needed for their struggles. Victor was the initiator of the Nairobi Trans* Declaration 2007 and the first Pan African Transgender workshop supported by IGLHRC, from which the project Proudly Transgender and African, a longtime dream by Victor himself and artist and human rights defender Gabrielle Le Roux, emerged. The duo hasa dream of having similar exhibitions focusing on human rights defenders in Africa. Victor is currently an independent consultant specializing in minority human rights, effective campaigning, defending human rights defenders as well as movement building.