Rights groups have said Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act has unleashed a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ people, mostly by private individuals.
MARRAKECH, Morocco — The World Bank will aim to ensure gay and transgender Ugandans are not discriminated against in its programs before resuming new funding, which was halted in August over an anti-LGBTQ law, a bank executive said. World Bank project documents will make it clear that LGBTQ Ugandans should not face discrimination and that staff will not be arrested for including them, Victoria Kwakwa, the bank’s head for eastern and southern Africa, told Reuters.
“We’re doing all this to clarify this is not what you should be doing in World Bank-financed projects and to say you are allowed to do it the right way and you will be not be arrested,” Kwakwa said, on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. She declined to give a timeline for assessing the measures’ efficacy and moving to a decision on whether to resume new funding for Uganda. “We have discussed this at length with government.
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