After Uganda passed the law, the World Bank began halting all loans to Uganda. Last August, a 20-year-old Uganda who had sex with a 41-year-old man was the first to be arrested under the new law.

Ugandan authorities have perpetrated widespread discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, their families, and their supporters in the two years ...

Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the country's Constitutional Court refused to ...

More than 60 countries — mostly in Africa and the Mideast — have criminalized homosexuality, according to Human Rights Watch, but Uganda’s anti-gay law is considered one of the harshest.

Uganda's Constitutional Court has upheld a controversial anti-gay law, allowing the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality." The measure was signed last year.

Uganda’s Constitutional Court on April 3, 2024 upheld the abusive and radical provisions of the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling further entrenches ...

He faces life in prison if convicted. See all articles by Greg Owen. See more: Law & Policy, Africa, Anti-Homosexuality Act, Kill the Gays, President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda ...

A gay Ugandan couple covers themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. (AP Photo, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — The United States is still reviewing its foreign ...

The new surgeries bring the total number of patients who have benefited from the free transplants at Mulago Hospital to nine ...

The law, which includes the death penalty as a punishment in some cases, has been strongly condemned, including by the United States. By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya Uganda’s ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan gay rights activists have asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law that the country’s ...

As Uganda prepares to present its progress report on the implementation of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2022 recommendations, the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has called on civil ...