I understand that you may have your mandate, but given that we know from witnesses on the ground and from media reports that gays and lesbians in Uganda are being targeted.... There is also a punitive law in the works that has generally wide support as well. It is a law that, if it were to go through, would provide the death penalty for anybody who has been caught doing any type of gay act. This is a life-and-death situation.
To get to the nearest place, which would be Nairobi, has its challenges as well. Also, as you will have been aware, the comments lately coming out of Kenya have not been very favourable to gays and lesbians. You're going from one country that has a serious problem--possibly arresting, charging, and hanging people and putting the death penalty on them—to another country that doesn't have a very stellar record.
What is it that you can do in maybe working with UNHCR or some NGOs?
You're obviously aware of the issue. You can't not be aware of what's happening on the ground. What are we prepared to do to facilitate and help out? Are the forms that complicated? Is it access to get them, to get to people, to know what's happening?
I don't know. It seems like a very frustrating situation, and for us to say there's nothing we can do about it is even more depressing.