How America’s decision to remove Uganda from AGOA over the AHA hurts homosexuals more than homophobes THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Two months ago, President Joe Biden removed Uganda from the preferential trading arrangement with the USA, the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA). I suspect the main reason was …
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How Western threats of sanctions are bad for the struggle for the rights of homosexuals in Uganda THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Last month, Uganda passed the most draconian and barbaric anti-homosexual law in the world. The law has a death sentence for some acts of homosexuality but does not …
Read More »Kasese municipality never recognized homosexuals as minorities – Mayor
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kasese Municipality Mayor Chance Kahindo has disregarded information circulating on social media that his council passed a bylaw recognising homosexuals and transgender people as minority groups. Kasese municipal council early last year was engaged by a Human Rights Awareness Promotion Forum-HRAPF, an NGO promoting …
Read More »Deputy Speaker calls for inquiry into Kasese Municipality by-law
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Internal Affairs and Local Government ministers have been directed to investigate a by-law passed by the Kasese Municipal Council, which seeks to recognise homosexuals and transgender people as minorities. While issuing the directive during the plenary sitting on Wednesday, 25 January 2023, the Deputy Speaker, …
Read More »Police uneasy placing homosexuals in normal detention
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kayunga have raised concern about locking up self-proclaimed homosexuals with other suspects. Kayunga District Police Community Liaison Officer, Paul Ssali, says that they often find it challenging locking up other suspects with self-proclaimed homosexuals. Without giving figures, Ssali noted that homosexuality is …
Read More »Will Homosexuals bring down Museveni?
By Joseph Were Uganda is to pay high price for hate In April 2013, the global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, published a report entitled: “Making love a crime: Criminalisation of same sex conduct in Sub-Saharan Africa” in which Ugandan gay rights activist Frank Mugisha gave very emotional testimony. One …
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