“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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