The Economic Freedom Fighters EFF have joined the chorus of condemnation against Uganda’s anti-homosexual bill.🏳️🌈
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk also urged Museveni not to promulgate the bill into law.
“If signed into law by the president, it will render lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Uganda criminals simply for existing, for being who they are. “This ambiguous, vaguely worded law even criminalises those who ‘promote’ homosexuality,” said Amnesty’s east and southern Africa director, Tigere Chagutah.
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