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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Uganda’s brutal Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) reportedly cost the country as much as $1.6 billion in the year since it became law. The law, signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in May 2023 ...

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.

Pope Francis on Tuesday met with African gay rights advocates and denounced the country’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), also called the Kill the Gays law. In a video posted to X ...

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 ...

Two years after halting funding, the World Bank is lifting its loan freeze on Uganda, imposed after the country passed a 2023 anti-LGBTQ law allowing the death penalty for certain same-sex acts.

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 ...

Uganda accused the U.S. of pushing an “LGBT agenda” in the wake of pushback to an anti-gay law. “There’s a coup at the State Department in the U.S. It is being taken over b… ...

Kerry likens Uganda anti-gay law to anti-Semitism and apartheid By Reuters February 26, 20145:31 PM PSTUpdated February 26, 2014 ...