The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has slammed the Ugandan anti-homosexuality Bill, passed on Tuesday, which imposes severe punishment for same-sex acts, including labelling some acts as crimes punishable by death.
The top UN Human Rights Official, Volker Türk has called on President Yoweri Museveni to reject the bill, warning that the legislation runs counter to Uganda’s own constitutional provisions stipulating equality and non-discrimination for all. This comes as the United States and Canada joined the chorus of condemnation.
“The passing of this discriminatory bill – probably among the worst of its kind in the world is a deeply troubling development. If signed into law, it will render lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Uganda criminals simply for existing, for being who they are. It could provide carte blanche for the systematic violation of nearly all of their human rights and serve to incite people against each other. The bill confuses consensual and non-consensual relations.
“Let us be clear: this is not about ‘values’ – promoting violence and discrimination against people for who they are and who they love is wrong and any disingenuous attempts to justify this on the basis of ‘values’ should be called out and condemned. The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke about how pernicious and ghastly it is that people are penalised and killed simply and solely on the basis of their sexual orientation, and he has called for us all to oppose this injustice,” Türk added.
“The bill is one of the most extreme anti-LGBTQI+ laws in the world. Human rights are universal. No one should be attacked, imprisoned, or killed simply because of whom they are or whom they love,” Trudeau explains.
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