The 2010/2011 publication timing is significant. Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act wasn’t passed until 2013, but the criminalization of same-sex conduct and the social hostility toward sexual minorities were already deeply entrenched. This work appears to document conditions before that legislation formally escalated state persecution.
The emphasis on ‘presumption of innocence and burden of proof’ in your description suggests the author is examining how legal frameworks systematically fail sexual minorities—how the burden of proof functions differently for populations already presumed guilty by virtue of their sexuality, how evidence gets interpreted through a lens of suspicion rather than protection.
The substantial bibliography (pages 51-54) indicates engagement with legal scholarship, human rights frameworks, epidemiological research on HIV transmission, and likely the intersecting literatures on gender, sexuality, and development in African contexts.
R. Kakungulu-Mayambala’s name suggests deep roots in Ugandan scholarship and community—potentially someone writing from within the affected context rather than as an external observer, which would give the work particular authority and specificity regarding local legal systems, social dynamics, and the lived realities of the populations examined.
The work addresses a gap that much global HIV scholarship overlooks: how young lesbian and bisexual women become hypervisible targets for both HIV vulnerability and legal persecution simultaneously. Not as separate problems, but as interconnected systems of marginalization where legal criminalization actively prevents access to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services.
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| ISBN: 9789970511402 |
| Subtitle: Presumption Of Innocence And The Public Parading Of Criminal Suspects In Uganda |
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| Subject(s): Burden Of Proof – Uganda; Human Rights – Uganda; Presumption Of Innocence – Uganda |
| Publication Date: 2012 |
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| Publisher: Human Rights and Peace Centre |
| Language: English |
| Format: print |
| Pages: 123 |
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| Book_ID: 106239 |