Uganda’s parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 for a second time after the president asked for it to be 'strengthened'. It's one of the world’s ‘harshest’ anti-LGBTQ+ bills, with punishments including the death penalty for just being LGBTQ+.
MPs once again passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill after the president recommended some changes
MPs ignored Museveni’s request to amend the death penalty punishment for so-called ‘aggravated homosexuality’, a term used by the government for gay sex that includes children or someone living with HIV. The Chairperson of the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, which scrutinised the president’s reccomendations, agreed.
One MP from the ruling National Resistance Movement party, Fox Odoi-Oywelowo, voted against the revised bill. ‘What is difficult is accepting that a house full of morally bankrupt individuals who have abused power was congratulating itself on criminalising LGBTQ+ persons and equating us to a murderous cult.’
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