The global telecomms company Orange has just been caught advertising on the website of a major Ugandan tabloid leading an anti-gay witch-hunt.

Shock: Orange is putting advertising dollars into a tabloid that promotes anti-gay hate in Uganda.  Will you ask Orange and other corporations working in Uganda to speak out against the anti-gay law and pull their ads? Dear Luc, BREAKING: The global telecomms company Orange has just been caught advertising on the website of a major Ugandan tabloid leading an anti-gay witch-hunt. Ugandans fighting the notorious ‘Anti-Homosexuality Act’ are calling on companies working in the country to speak out against the new law. Instead, Orange is silent and their advertising dollars are putting lesbian, gay, bi and trans Ugandans into harm’s way. Orange would never act this way at home in France. If we act quickly, thousands of us could put this two-faced behaviour front and center in the global media, threatening to damage their business around the world, unless they stand up for what’s right. Will you sign the petition now?http://www.allout.org/uganda-corps Red Pepper is one of Uganda’s most widely-read tabloids. It thrives on scandal and shock, so now it’s trying to increase their circulation by denouncing gay people with names and pictures across the country, no matter who gets arrested or hurt.   After every news story like this, mobs can form and take the law into their own hands. In 2011, David Kato was murdered two days after another tabloid published his face under the headline “Hang Them”. Corporations like Orange pour advertising money into the radio shows, papers or news sites like Red Pepper that provide ammunition to anti-gay mobs -- and they haven’t yet been called to account. Orange says they’re the #1 internet service provider in Uganda. Will you help get them Orange on the record now? http://www.allout.org/uganda-corps Together, we’ve got the power to move major global corporations to do the right thing. We got Apple to drop a gay ‘cure’ app from their online store, and helped get key national Olympic sponsors to speak out against Russia’s anti-gay law.  And, over 312,338 of us have already come together to stand against the the anti-gay law in Uganda since it passed, so we know this crisis is one so many of us are ready to keep fighting. If we can now get corporations in Uganda to start speaking out and pulling their money from the media profiting from hate, it could signal to the tabloids that the witch-hunt no longer sells and to the government that the law is bad for business. But it takes all of us, signing and sharing this petition to make it a reality. Will you sign now?http://www.allout.org/uganda-corps Thanks for going All Out, Andre, Guillaume, Hayley, Jeremy, Marie, Sara, Tile and the rest of the All Out team.   PS: Orange is the largest international telecommunications company in Uganda. They provide services to individuals, and to businesses around the world. If they speak out and pull their advertising from anti-gay news sites, they could trigger a global domino effect of global corporations in Uganda doing the same. Will you ask Orange to speak out now? www.allout.org/uganda-corps   SOURCES: Ugandan newspaper Red Pepper publishes 'top 200' homosexuals list, The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ugandan-newspaper-publishes-200-top-homosexuals-list-9152442.html Uganda anti-gay laws: 'They can beat you up and kill you', BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26375116 Orange's statement: "A firm commitment to human rights" http://www.orange.com/en/commitments/responsibility/vision/Folder/old_arbo/human-rights