Uganda: Constitutional Court rejects appeal against controversial anti-LGBT+ law. The text provides for heavy penalties for people having homosexual relations and “promoting’ homosexuality.
An offense of “aggravated homosexuality ” is even punishable by the death penalty. The five judges ruled, however, that certain sections of the law violate the right to health and an adequate standard of living, as enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, for her part, hailed to AFP a “ great success for Uganda ”