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On 21 March 2023, the bill was read a third time, and was then sent to President Yoweri Museveni for assent. [1] On 21 April 2023, Museveni returned it to Parliament, [2] which passed it again with minor amendments on 2 May. On 26 May, Museveni signed it into law. [3] [4]
The draft law prescribed the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuals" (definition includes those who are convicted of homosexuality more than once and those who engage in homosexual sex with a person older than 75 or with a disabled person) and up to 20 years in prison for "promoters" of homosexuality. [35] On 21 April, President Museveni ...
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.
Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad, it was ...
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 ...
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
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.
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]