In Uganda, a bill published in parliament last week aiming to introduce new restrictions on non-governmental organisations has LGBT advocates fearing it could have an adverse effect on the country’s queer community. The new Non-Governmental Organisations bill would grant the internal affairs minister and the National Board for Non-Governmental Organisations broad powers to supervise, inspect, […]
President Yoweri Museveni arrived in the UK on May 6th for the UK-Uganda Business Forum with Uganda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sam Kutesa. The forum was hosted by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. On Wednesday evening President Museveni gave a speech at a venue in Buckingham Gate, Westminster. The President was met with a […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the country’s controversial ‘jail the gays’ bill into law only this week, and already a number of nations are withdrawing aid from Uganda in protest to the legislation. The law dictates that life sentences be implicated in some circumstances, including repeated gay sex between consenting adults as well as making […]
President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a controversial bill which legislates against same sex relationships, in some cases punishing homosexuality with life sentences in a country where homosexuality is already criminalised. The law has garnered widespread criticism from around the world since it was first passed by the Ugandan parliament in December 2013. President Museveni […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced at his national party retreat that he will sign a bill that enables sentences including life imprisonment for those accused of having sex with people of their own gender, failing to report LGBT people to the authorities or supporting LGBT people. President Museveni in January halted the bill, stating that […]
