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Funding Crisis: Uganda’s Education Overhaul Stalled by Anti-Homosexuality Law

Jungle TelegraphEducationOctober 9, 2024October 10, 2024

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

Jungle TelegraphEducation LGBTQ+ RightsApril 7, 2024May 5, 2024

Gay rights activists in Uganda are calling for increased international pressure on the government to repeal the anti-gay law.

Human Rights

Uganda: Upheld Anti-Homosexuality Act Sparks Outrage and Concern

Jungle TelegraphHuman RightsApril 6, 2024April 14, 2024

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.

Europe - LGBTQ National Europe - LGBTQ Rights

EU’s continued funding to Uganda has sparked criticism from LGBTQ+ campaigners

NewsdeskEurope - LGBTQ National Europe - LGBTQ RightsSeptember 9, 2023

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.

World - LGBTQ Rights

The first Ugandan has been charged with «aggravated homosexuality», punishable by death

NewsdeskWorld - LGBTQ RightsAugust 28, 2023

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.

Opinion

Uganda’s Non-Discrimination Assurances Won’t Protect Queer People from Prosecution

Neela GhoshalOpinionJuly 22, 2023July 22, 2023

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.

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