Anti-Homosexuality Bill: Uganda passes updated version of brutal law
Uganda’s parliament has passed one of the world’s cruellest anti-LGBTQ+ laws, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, for a second time. The legislation was originally passed on 21 March and would have made identifying as LGBTQ+ a criminal offence. However, President Yoweri Museveni refused to sign it and instead returned it to parliament with recommended changes, including adding a differentiation between engaging in homosexual acts and identifying as LGBTQ+. The updated version of the law would no longer criminalise people for identifying as a member of the community, though it does propose jail…
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