Uganda

Map of the 67 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known efforts to remove them. 
Legal challenges to anti-LGBTQ laws are under way in at least 10 nations
A report from Ugandan human rights groups Convening for Equality and its Strategic Response Team highlight a “horrific breadth and depth of abuses” that have occurred as a result of the nation’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act. To read the report, click the image. (Image courtesy of Kuchu Times)
Reeling from over 500 anti-LGBT abuses, Ugandan activists plead for help from West
UgandaUganda President Yoweri Museveni signs the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023. (Photo courtesy of State House Uganda) President Yoweri Museveni signs Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2022, turning it into the Homosexuality Act Law 2023. (Photo courtesy of State House Uganda)
Violence against LGBTQ Ugandans surges after Anti-Homosexuality Act
Roger Ross Williams, director of "God Loves Uganda"
Homosexuality has always been African, but the term LGBT is new and divisive
Office of TranzNetwork after the attack. (Photo courtesy of Chapter Four Uganda/X (Twitter)
Arson destroys offices of Ugandan trans organization
Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships. (Photo courtesy of Parliament Magazine)
United front against homophobic Ugandan law? Europe says no.
Uganda Constitutional Court sets date for Anti-Homosexuality Act hearing
A member of the LGBTQ community prays during an evangelical church service in April 2023 in Kampala, Uganda. (Luke Dray photo courtesy of CNN/Getty Images)
Uganda begins arresting men for ‘aggravated homosexuality’, a crime punishable by death
Rights defenders support World Bank suspending loans to Uganda
Dr. Henry Mwebesa, director general of health services, Ugandan Ministry of Health. (Photo courtesy of X/Twitter)
Do not discriminate against gay patients, Ugandan authorities tell health workers
World Bank President Ajay Banga (Photo courtesy of AP)
World Bank suspends loans to Uganda
The Rev. Gideon B. Byamugisha
Homophobia is neither Christian nor African, says Ugandan reverend
The U.N. human rights office in Gulu, Uganda, was closed in June. (Photo courtesy of Business Insider Africa)
U.N. forced to close its Ugandan human rights offices
Iran President Ebrahim Raisi (left) shakes hands with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, center-right, at the State House in Entebbe, Uganda on July 12, 2023. (Photo courtesy of VOA)
Iranian President praises anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments in Uganda
U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (Photo courtesy of House Television)
U.S. legislators to World Bank: Halt loans to Uganda until anti-gay law is repealed
Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, Uganda's minister of health.
Uganda health ministry says ‘Don’t discriminate’, but the law says otherwise