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Uganda, March 2015
Joseph Kawesi, a transgender woman, sits at home in the Ugandan capital of Kampala with her mother Mai, 65.

Kawesi still has nightmares about the night in December 2012 when she says police officers dragged her out of her home after a tip-off that she might be gay. She says the officers beat her, and then raped her with a club. Kawesi is now an activist working to support LGBT people affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Uganda's president signed an Anti-Homosexuality Act into law in Feb. 2014, that broadened the criminalization of same-sex relationships, adding to colonial-era laws that already prohibited sodomy. The law was overturned on a technicality in August, but Parliament could pass a new anti-homosexuality bill this year.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7a870c5086cd7d7/698852ba0b72e311f86e4493/lgb150306p_00526.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jun 4, 2015 ### [Chronicling the Struggles of LGBT People Around the World](https://time.com/3906450/lgbt-robin-hammond/) Robin Hammond shot the portraits of 65 survivors of discrimination [WORLD](/section/world/) *  May 29, 2015 ### [Hard Lessons](https://time.com/3901379/hard-lessons/) Improving education in the Middle East is as important as ending the region’s conflicts [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 30, 2015 ### [Scotland’s Nationalist Surge](https://time.com/3841697/scotlands-nationalist-surge/) Less than a year after rejecting independence, Scots may hold the balance of power in the U.K. elect... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 23, 2015 ### [Kerry and Hollande Call for Intensified Fight Against Terrorism](https://time.com/3680638/davos-world-economic-forum-john-kerry-francois-hollande/) "This fight will not be decided on the battlefield, but in the classrooms," Kerry says [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 22, 2015 ### [Thought Leaders at Davos See Opportunities in 2015](https://time.com/3677503/davos-thought-leaders/) Amid global crises thought leaders find reasons to be hopeful [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Oct 10, 2014 ### [Meeting Malala: Her Cause Clearly Comes First](https://time.com/3489694/malala-nobel-cause/) During a TIME photo shoot it became immediately clear to TIME's Matt McAllester that Malala Yousafza... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 17, 2014 ### [Matching a Mother’s Courage](https://time.com/3001433/matching-a-mothers-courage/) Israeli and Palestinian leaders should emulate the compassion of a grieving parent [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 10, 2014 ### [Into the Wild Blue Yonder](https://time.com/2972652/into-the-wild-blue-yonder/) Commercial air travel is 100 years old—and it’s only poised to keep growing in the future [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Apr 23, 2014 ### [TIME, VICE Journalists Detained in Eastern Ukraine](https://time.com/73522/time-vice-journalists-detained-ukraine/) TIME's Berlin Correspondent and three other journalists were freed an hour after being detained at a... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Nov 18, 2013 ### [Mexico's Narco Cultura: Glorifying Drug War Death and Destruction](https://time.com/3804417/mexicos-narco-cultura-glorifing-drug-war-death-and-destruction/) Shaul Schwarz's new feature-length documentary captures the discomforting co-existence in Mexican an... [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/matt-mcallester/","name":"Matt McAllester"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/matt-mcallester/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/matt-mcallester/"},"name":"Matt McAllester","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/matt-mcallester/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```