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The majority found that 'the prohibition against homosexuality is entrenched in the laws of Uganda and our cherished and shared cultural norms and values.' [41] It found that the media had 'recently been awash with reports of sodomy and lesbianism in Ugandan schools' and that 'grooming and recruitment of school children into homosexuality has ...
In February of 2014, despite the rejection of the previous bill 5 years earlier, President Yoweri Museveni passed the ‘Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act’. The act made it so that it was illegal for two people of the same sex to have sexual relations. Under this new law, anyone caught partaking in such acts would be punished by life imprisonment.
On 21 April, President Museveni sent the bill back to Parliament, which passed it again on 2 May with minor amendments by a vote of 348 to 1. Museveni signed it into law on 26 May. [A] [2] [35] The Act, as passed, did not include the earlier proposed provision contained in the bill, that would have criminalised merely identifying as gay or non ...
The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was passed by parliament in Kampala in April, was signed into law on Monday by President Yoweri Museveni despite widespread opposition from world leaders and ...
A gay Ugandan couple cover themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay ...
The bill was signed into law by the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni on 24 February 2014. [6] [7] On 1 August 2014, however, the Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled the act invalid on procedural grounds. [8] [9] [10] The act would have broadened the criminalisation of same-sex relations in Uganda domestically.
The government is defending the case brought by rights groups who say the law violates basic freedoms. Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act challenged in Constitutional Court Skip to main content
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) is an umbrella non-governmental organization based in Kampala, Uganda. It has been described as the country's leading gay rights advocacy group. [1] One of their achievements include director Pepe Julian Onziema leading a coalition of 55 civil society organizations to overturn the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. [2]