Tag: Uganda
Funding Crisis: Uganda’s Education Overhaul Stalled by Anti-Homosexuality Law
Examine the education crisis in Uganda resulting from funding cuts due to the government’s anti-homosexuality law.
Urgent Call for International Pressure on Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law
Gay rights activists in Uganda are calling for increased international pressure on the government to repeal the anti-gay law.
Uganda: Upheld Anti-Homosexuality Act Sparks Outrage and Concern
Learn about the impact on LGBTQ+ rights, defiance of international law, continued discrimination and violence, legal challenges, and the way forward. Find out what human rights organisations are calling for and the government’s legal obligation to protect all citizens.
EU’s continued funding to Uganda has sparked criticism from LGBTQ+ campaigners
The European Union (EU) announced in June that it would continue to fund Uganda, despite the country’s recent enactment of a highly contentious anti-LGBTQ+ law in May, which has drawn major worldwide attention due to its provision for the death sentence for particular same-sex acts. This move has ignited a massive outcry and backlash from the global LGBTQ+ community.
The first Ugandan has been charged with «aggravated homosexuality», punishable by death
In May, the government passed one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, mandating life in prison for same-sex intercourse and the death penalty in some cases.
Uganda’s Non-Discrimination Assurances Won’t Protect Queer People from Prosecution
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), enacted on 30 May by President Yoweri Museveni, enshrines discrimination in Ugandan law. The AHA includes the death sentence for some consensual same-sex acts, prohibits organisation’s from «normalising» sexual diversity through inclusive programming, and requires everyone in Uganda, including health workers, to report people who might be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) to the police.