Japan grants refugee status to gay woman facing persecution in Uganda

And it only takes 3 years to produce a result?

In detention for 3 years?

Well, that’s the total quota for THIS year.

United States which recently raised its yearly cap to 125,000.

Again, whenever someone says things like America is a racist country or how oppressed they are while living in the US I die inside

How generous of Japan,meanwhile many European countries and Canada are helping thousands of these people everyday. I don’t even know why this article is in the mainline.

The Japanese immigration system dragged kicking and screaming into the 1990s.

Good for Japan. What would have happened to this woman if she'd been returned home is unthinkable.

Uganda sure is a sick and despicable third world nation. Japan must ensure no foreign aid goes there.

Did they had this girl in the same immigration center as Wishma Sandamali for 3 years?

That's like winning the lottery.

She is alive and got her papers.

Hope she can renew the VISA without being detained again and again every 6 months.

I AM TOTALLY CONFUSED!!! Japan grants refugee status to gay woman facing persecution in Uganda BUT Japan does not recognize gay marriages! In other words kick me when I am not looking and when I turn around smile as if you didn't do it but you were the only person around. I just don't get it. Ok I do, its a political gesture because being gay in Japan is not going to give he/her she/him any more rights than they had in their own home land except for a right to live!

kaimycahlToday 08:35 pm JST

being gay in Japan is not going to give he/her she/him any more rights than they had in their own home land except for a right to live!

Did you read what you wrote?

"Except for a right to live" - and not be brutally raped and murdered like many many other lesbian women in Uganda.

In other words, her life was saved by coming here.

So….what happens in 5 years? Does she reapply again?

If she is recognised as a refugee now why isn’t she granted a permanent residency?

Girl in Tokyo

The most persecuted in Uganda are gay men, no that what I say matters as you like to refer to me as “Mr 'Man” who is unable to emphasise with women as I am male.

Nobody should be in fear because of their sexuality, any rational person would consider that to be a fact .

Hard to believe, getting a refugee status is difficult enough in Japan to make it into the national news...

GAYS in Uganda now face life in prison.