The latest bill takes Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ policies much further, punishing LGBTQ advocacy with up to 20 years in prison and proposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality ...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but ... relations are already illegal in Uganda, as they are in more than 30 ...
Uganda this week passed a bill ... the LGBTQ community were already prevalent in Uganda, Budoo-Scholtz explained. In 2013, the government, led by Museveni, passed the initial Anti-Homosexuality ...
(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill prescribing ... rights and stop targeting LGBT people for political capital." Anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has grown in recent weeks ...
The bill is one of the toughest pieces of anti-gay legislation ... In 2014, Uganda's constitutional court nullified another act which had toughened laws against the LGBT community.
Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill prescribing jail terms ... rights and stop targeting LGBT people for political capital." Anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has grown in recent weeks amid alleged reports ...
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Under the previous bill people who identified as gay in Uganda risked life in prison Last month the Ugandan parliament passed an anti-homosexuality bill that meant anyone who identifies as LGBT ...
Countries in Africa have some of the harshest and most discriminatory LGBTQ policies in the world. Last year, Uganda passed an anti-LGBTQ law that sparked sanctions from the United States. And now, ...
The bill, which awaits being signed into law, is one of the harshest in Africa. LONDON -- Ghana’s parliament has passed a controversial new anti-LGBTQ bill ... s bill follows Uganda’s passage ...
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said that his government will await a Supreme Court ruling before taking action on a bill aimed at further criminalizing LGBTQ ... Uganda after it enacted anti ...
Ghana's parliament voted to pass a controversial bill to severely restrict LGBTQ rights. Gay sex is already illegal ... Commonly referred to as the anti-gay bill, the legislation received sponsorship ...