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U.S. suspends some aid to Uganda health ministry over anti-gay law
KAMPALA, Uganda — The U.S. has suspended some aid to Uganda’s ministry of health, officials said on Thursday, the first such response by the U.S. since the passage of Uganda’s harsh anti-homosexuality law passed last December and signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni February 24.
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UN human rights official: Nigeria’s anti-gay law may harm public health
ABUJA, Nigeria — The U.N. human rights chief says Nigeria’s new anti-gay law may have “negative consequences” for public health.
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Gay Ethiopian faces persecution, prison if deported from the U.S.
BOSTON, Mass. — Federal immigration officials in Boston are seeking to deport a 19-year-old gay Ethiopian man, where he is likely to be persecuted and imprisoned.
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Uganda human rights activists challenge anti-gay law in court
KAMPALA, Uganda — Human rights activists on Tuesday petitioned Uganda’s Constitutional Court to challenge the validity of an anti-gay measure that allows severe penalties against homosexuality. The activists – under a group called Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law – hope the court will agree the new law violates Uganda’s constitution by […]
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Telecom giant pulls ads from Uganda paper over publishing names of ‘suspected’ gays
KAMPALA, Uganda — An LGBT advocacy group says the global telecom company Orange has withdrawn advertising from a Ugandan tabloid newspaper that printed the names of 200 suspected homosexuals after a severe anti-gay law was enacted last month.
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The PR campaign to whitewash the right’s anti-gay Uganda history
As a communications person myself, I can really appreciate a good PR campaign, and the best I’ve seen in a long time is the new effort by U.S. right-wing evangelicals to completely whitewash their own history of involvement with Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality law. For the last five years, human rights advocates around the world been discussing how U.S. conservative figures were integrally involved in the creation of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (originally called the “Kill the Gays Bill”).
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Sweden is fourth European nation to freeze aid to Uganda over anti-gay law
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The government of Sweden announced Wednesday that it would stop development aid payments to Uganda because of the anti-homosexuality law passed last December and signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni February 24.
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Four men convicted of gay sex whipped in north Nigerian court
LAGOS, Nigeria — Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment Thursday in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.
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Vatican official criticizes Uganda’s anti-gay law, calls for its repeal
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — A Vatican cardinal has criticized Uganda’s anti-gay law and called for the repeal of its severe penalties. Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said Tuesday that “homosexuals are not criminals” and shouldn’t be sentenced for up to life in prison.
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Kerry speaks with Uganda president, says anti-gay law complicates U.S. ties
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has told Uganda’s president that the African nation’s new anti-gay law will complicate its relationship with America.