“This shameful Act is the latest development in an alarming trend of human rights abuses and corruption in Uganda.” “The enactment of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act is a tragic violation of universal human rights - one that is not worthy of the Ugandan people,” President Joe Biden announced last month. Advocates for the rights of LGBTQ+ people, including human rights campaigners or those funding advocacy organizations, could face up to 20 years’ imprisonment for the “ promotion of homosexuality.” Anyone attempting to have same-sex relations could be sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Homosexuality has been illegal in Uganda, a conservative East African nation, since 1950, but Ugandans now face life imprisonment for gay sex. Last month, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed off on one of the most draconian pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the world.
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