Shorter Version Of The Anti Homosexuality Act 2023 Uganda

The speaker discusses the anti-homosexuality bill passed by the Ugandan parliament. The bill criminalizes homosexuality and imposes punishments ranging from life imprisonment to death penalty and fines. The United Nations Human Rights has condemned the bill, and other countries threaten to impose sanctions. The bill has yet to be signed into law by the president. So, welcome to this new episode of the Diary of a Lawyer. Today I just want to briefly touch on a subject that has been in the news all over the world in the recent days. That's the so-called anti-homosexuality bill passed by the England Parliament, I think around the 23rd of March this year. And it was first published in February 2023. And the bill, in a nutshell, criminalises homosexuality and it also raises other offences of so-called aggravated defects, and normalisation and promotion of homosexuality. It also sets out the punishments which range from life imprisonment, death penalty and various fines, monetary fines, among other punishments, depending of course on the alleged violation. A bit of a history is that there was something similar that was passed in 2014, which then quashed the country's constitution on various grounds. And so this is, if you like, almost ten years later, take two of a slightly more tough law regarding criminalisation of homosexuality. Obviously there have been condemnations from the United Nations Human Rights saying this constitutes the targeting and discrimination of sexual minorities, but also apparently allegedly against the Italian constitution itself. And other countries have said that if the situation is not reversed, they will impose sanctions among other measures. Of course the country says it's entitled to pass laws that are consistent with their values and culture and so on, but we focus on what the law actually says rather than the debates on other sides. There were around 387 for and two against the bill, but it has yet to be signed into law, which is a requirement by the country's constitution where the executive, the president, can either sign or veto the law. So that's it in a nutshell, in brief, and there we shall leave it on this episode of the Diary of a Lawyer, and we shall speak again, but obviously we shall be watching development on this anti-homosexuality bill 2023 passed by the Ugandan parliament. Thank you. Bye. Speak again.