Following in the footsteps of the US, UK, and UN, the European Parliament is getting ready to seek the repeal of Uganda’s law criminalizing homosexuality in a resolution that will be discussed this Wednesday in a plenary session. If the bill is put into effect, Parliament would demand sanctions against Ugandan officials.
The resolution requests President Yoweri Museveni not to publish the law that the Ugandan Parliament enacted in the strongest words possible. The text makes having gay interactions a crime in and of itself. This statute violates all international agreements for the protection of human rights, according to Renew MEP Pierre Karleskind, who is arguing in favor of the motion before the Strasbourg Parliament.
“It means that merely being gay can result in a prison term, even a lengthy one, and the legislation even allows for the death penalty in cases of extreme homosexuality. What the heck does that even imply, thinks the MEP”.
The proposed resolution asks European diplomats to take up the issue and use every legal means at their disposal to have the law revoked. If President Yoweri Museveni nevertheless promulgates the law, it also makes provisions for sanctions against Uganda, which would be intended for the political and religious leaders of the nation who backed the law’s wording.