{"id":215578,"date":"2023-03-23T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=215578"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T02:51:39","slug":"united-nations-amnesty-international-react-against-uganda-anti-lgbtq-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=215578","title":{"rendered":"United Nations, Amnesty International react against Uganda anti-LGBTQ + Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/47\/95\/38\/400x225_cmsv2_f2b50883-61ed-53e6-a2ac-b34870c84fc1-7479538.jpg\" alt=\"UN and Amnesty international urge Ugandan president to reject anti-LGBTQ law \"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">UNITED NATIONS, March 23 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; The United Nations and the NGO Amnesty International have described the anti-LGBTQ law which was passed by the Uganda parliament as appalling.<br><br>UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to reject the anti-homosexuality law.<br><br>Uganda&#8217;s parliament has passed its anti-gay legislation which places tough sanctions on same-sex relationships in the country.<br><br>On Tuesday, the Speaker in Parliament ruled that the &#8216;Ayes have it&#8217; after the house had its final vote on the bill despite its chaotic session.<br><br>Even though homosexuality is already illegal in the country, the anti-gay legislation proposes that anyone in the conservative East African nation who engages in same-sex activity or who identifies publicly as LGBTQ could face up to 10 years in prison.<br><br>In a report by Africanews.com, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, called on Museveni on Wednesday not to enact the law.<br><br>&#8220;The passage of this discriminatory text -probably the worst of its kind in the world&#8211; is a deeply troubling development,&#8221; he said in a statement.<br><br>&#8220;If signed into law by the president, (this law) will make lesbians, gays and bisexuals criminals in Uganda simply by existing (&#8230;). It could give carte blanche to the systematic violation of almost all their human rights,&#8221; he added.<br><br>Amnesty&#8217;s director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, in a statement said &#8220;this ambiguous, vaguely worded law criminalizes even those who promote &#8220;homosexuality&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, March 23 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; The United Nations and the NGO Amnesty International have described the anti-LGBTQ law which was passed by the Uganda parliament as appalling. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to reject the anti-homosexuality law. Uganda&#8217;s parliament has passed its anti-gay legislation which places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215586,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215578\/revisions\/215586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}