Opinion By Fabrice Houdart: In 2014, the World Bank played an important role in pressuring Uganda to walk back a draconian anti-gay law. Ten years later, it needs to do so again.
for not taking human rights violations seriously as it decided how to apportion funding for projects., the bank indefinitely postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda intended to boost its health sector, citing the anti-gay law as pretext.
The law, which expanded the criminalization of sexual relations between people of the same sex to include the maximum penalty of life imprisonment,Ten years later, we are back to square one. After the militant Islamist group al-Shababin Somalia last week, Museveni, in dire need of a distraction, once again signed a bill in clear violation of international human rights standards, instrumentalizing an already marginalized community for political gain.
The new law not only calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of having homosexual sex. It calls for the death penalty in cases of “aggravated homosexuality,” which includes same-sex relations between HIV-positive people, children or other vulnerable individuals. It even criminalizes the “promotion of homosexuality,” punishable by up to 20 years in prison.The impact of the law goes beyond the harshest provisions that have dominated headlines.
Worse, the law might well be copied by other African countries, as attitudes towards homosexuality on the continent have regressed. This is a self-inflicted economic wound for a country whose economic and social progress depends on grants from international partners. Uganda
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