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UGANDA: ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL REINTRODUCED TO PARLIAMENT
October 25, 2011: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality bill was reintroduced to parliament.
The bill includes the death penalty for some offences, requires that all people in Uganda report homosexuals and would ban advocacy by anyone for LGBT human rights.
The bill is the same one which ran out of time in the last parliament.
Chief proponent of the bill, David Bahati MP, is now the Chair of the ruling NRM party.
That version came out of a parliamentary committee in May with the death penalty clauses ‘hidden.’ This led to reports that capital punishment had been removed as a sop to international reaction. (Sources: care2.com, 25/10/2011)
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