The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) has slammed the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill passed on Tuesday which imposes severe punishment for same-sex acts,
He went further; calling the bill a massive distraction from taking the necessary action to end sexual violence, arguing it ran counter to the country’s legal obligations on human rights, while invoking the words of a late South African Nobel Peace Laureate.
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke about how pernicious and ghastly it is that people are penalized and killed simply and solely on the basis of their sexual orientation, and called for all to oppose this injustice.
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