Uganda

LGBTI Rights in Uganda


ADDED ON: 05/09/2023

Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill threatens HIV progress

Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, if signed into law, could lead to the withdrawal of foreign aid and threaten goals to end HIV/AIDS by 2030, advocates warn. Uganda's parliament passed the revised Anti-Homosexuality Act…

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ADDED ON: 05/07/2023

Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill threatens HIV progress

Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill, if signed into law, could lead to the withdrawal of foreign aid and threaten goals to end HIV/AIDS by 2030, advocates warn. Uganda’s parliament passed the revised Anti-Homosexuality Act…

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ADDED ON: 05/03/2023

Uganda parliament passes harsh anti-LGBTQ bill mostly unchanged

Uganda's parliament on Tuesday passed one of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including provision for long jail terms and the death penalty, after the president requested some parts of the…

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ADDED ON: 05/01/2023

Anti-LGBT Bill: Withdrawal of investment threats will not deter Africa – Speaker Bagbin

Africa is not deterred by the veiled threats of withdrawal of investments and international aid, Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has said. He noted that those threats and other stringent economic measures had…

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ADDED ON: 04/30/2023

Inside the Ugandan church offering sanctuary to the LGBTQ+ community

In a quiet pocket of Kampala, Uganda, the sound of singing cuts through the Sunday morning silence. The harmonising voices are part of the Adonai Inclusive Christian Ministries – but this is…

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ADDED ON: 04/27/2023

Uganda’s president asks for changes to LGBT bill so identity is not criminalised

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has asked lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, as part of an attempt to tone…

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ADDED ON: 04/27/2023

UK government funded anti-LGBTQ+ organisation in Uganda, says report

The UK government has been helping to fund the work of a virulently homophobic religious organisation in Uganda, whose leaders have backed a proposed law that would make identifying as gay a…

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ADDED ON: 04/25/2023

Ugandans flee as Kill the Gays gains momentum across Africa

Gay Ugandans are fleeing the country as the government’s Anti-Homosexuality Act moves closer to becoming law. “The government and the people of Uganda are against our existence,” said Mbajjwe Nimiro Wilson, a…

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ADDED ON: 04/21/2023

Uganda’s president sends anti-LGBTQ bill back to parliament for ‘strengthening’

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will send it back to parliament for "strengthening", the ruling party's chief whip said. A group…

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ADDED ON: 04/20/2023

Japan grants refugee status to woman from Uganda fearing LGBTQ persecution

A Ugandan woman was granted refugee status Wednesday following a district court ruling last month ordering the government to do so over fears she could be persecuted for being a lesbian if…

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ADDED ON: 04/20/2023

Global scientists urge Uganda’s president to veto anti-LGBTQ bill

A group of leading global scientists and academics have signed an open letter urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to veto a hardline bill criminalizing homosexuality in the country. The bill outlaws identifying…

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ADDED ON: 04/18/2023

Full Interview: Frank Mugisha on New Anti-LGBTQ Bill in Uganda That Could Impose Death Penalty

Full interview with Ugandan LGBTQ activist Frank Mugisha about a draconian new anti-gay bill the country is on the verge of imposing, which makes it a crime to identify as queer, considers…

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