Season 2 Episode 1: Amnesty in Africa

Segment one - COP29: What does Africa want? With millions of people already displaced by climate change disasters in Africa, the richer countries most responsible for global warming must agree at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan to fully pay for the catastrophic loss of homes and damage to livelihoods taking place across the continent. Our panel of experts discusses COP29 and Africa’s expectations from the climate conference. Segment two – Uganda: “Everybody here is having two lives or phones”: The devastating impact of criminalization on digital spaces for LGBTQ people in Uganda Amnesty International Gender Researcher and Advisor Shreshtha Das and Uganda campaigner Juniper Muitha discuss this new report, which has documented how the threats and presence of various forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV) against Ugandan LGBTQ people, in a context of criminalization, and the passage of Anti Homosexuality Act 2023 in particular, has forced LGBTQ individuals and organizations to alter their digital presence and behaviour.