Uganda’s parliament this week approved the country’s harsh anti-gay bill, threatening LGBTIQ people with the death sentence or life imprisonment in some cases.
Lawmakers agreed a handful of revisions that were requested by president Yoweri Museveni two weeks ago, but the bill retains its strictest provisions.
Rights campaigners in the country say the law is the culmination of more than a decade of collaboration between Ugandan elite interest groups and US ultra-conservatives, and call for any international responses to its passing to target not just Uganda but these US actors too.
