June 20 – Windy City Media Group
In addition to writing winning applications for funding and awards from the American Bar Association (ABA) for John Marshall’s Diversity Affairs Committee, as a student he founded and has led the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Network of the ABA’s Section of International Law. Issues presented include the systematic abuse of LGBT people under religious legal schemes as well as LGBT asylum under the system of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. His article, “Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill is a Threat to Human Rights and the Rule of Law,” appeared in the April 2010 issue of Africa Law Today.
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