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Content Type(s): Press Release
Topic(s): Law & Policy
… Act , 2023, while leaving the rest intact. The Court categorically declined to nullify the Act in its entirety or issue a permanent injunction. This decision falls short of the necessary action to protect the rights and lives of LGBTQ individuals in Uganda. The court’s decision comes after the petitioners, including individuals and human rights organizations, argued that the law was enacted without sufficient public involvement and …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Law & Policy
Region(s): Uganda
… Six Ways to Get Arrested Through the Work of an Internationally Financed Development Project in Uganda Submitted by outrightcomms on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 17:56 Law & Policy Uganda The recently … or gender identity. After the passage of the 2014 AHA, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported on LGBT people who told them “their employers had fired them since the … family by protecting the culture of the people of Uganda against the acts of same sex rights activists.” Five days after the previous Anti-Homosexuality Bill was introduced in 2014, …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Law & Policy
Region(s): Uganda
… Minority Defenders Forum, Organization, Uganda and Kenya Minority Womyn in Action, Kenya Miss Star International, Global Mosaic MENA, Lebanon Most at Risk Young Mothers and Teenage Girls …
Content Type(s): Press Release
Topic(s): Law & Policy
Region(s): Uganda
… 2023 - New World Bank President Ajay Banga should lead specific, concrete and timely actions in response to Uganda’s abhorrent Anti-Homosexuality Act, said 170 civic groups in a letter addressed to him today. The groups come from around the world including Africa, … the crime of “promotion of homosexuality.” Potentially, anyone who affirms the inherent human rights of LGBTIQ+ people could face a 20-year prison sentence for “promotion.” World Bank staff …
Content Type(s): Press Release
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism, Law & Policy
Region(s): Uganda
… have asked the World Bank to stop current and future loan payments to the Ugandan government in the wake of the adoption of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 , a piece of legislation … The new law undermines these programs by mandating discrimination against LGBTQ people in all sectors of Uganda’s economy. Under the Anti-Homosexuality Act, LGBTQ people in Uganda risk … LGBTQ people. “The World Bank should be a source of dignity, not danger,” said Ugandan human rights defender Kasha Nabagesera. “Queer people are going into hiding and fleeing Uganda to avoid …