Gay rights activists are calling for more pressure on the Ugandan government over a law that carries the death penalty for so-called "aggravated homosexuality." The law, which the African nation's ...

Uganda’s most prominent LGBTQ activist condemned a constitutional court’s decision Wednesday to uphold an anti-gay law that permits the death penalty in certain cases. Speaking with NBC News from New ...

Ugandan authorities have perpetrated widespread discrimination and violence against LGBT people in the two years since the Anti-Homosexuality Act became law. The Ugandan authorities have spread ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — 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 ...

Uganda's Constitutional Court has upheld an anti-gay law allowing the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality." The law, supported by many in Uganda but condemned abroad, was challenged by ...

(Nairobi) – 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. Last week, Open for Business, a coalition of global companies ...

In this April 4, 2023, file photo, activists hold placards during their picket against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa. Uganda's president ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday likened new anti-gay legislation in Uganda that imposes harsh penalties for homosexuality to anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany or ...