Commentary: The U.S. government should use Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ law to be a louder voice for these rights across the globe.
a year. This raised expectations that Washington has leverage to wield in pressing Kampala to change course., imposing sanctions
, freezing some aid and canceling a joint military exercise. Uganda’s Constitutional Court soon annulled the law on a technicality. Some credited American pressure for the law’s demise, though it proved only a temporary reprieve. The U.S. today faces the same question it did then: How should it react when a close partner obstructs human rights?condemning the law and said the U.S. would evaluate its implications on “all aspects of U.S. engagement with Uganda” as a result.
Why does this law merit White House attention when similarly draconian laws against homosexuality in other countries garner little attention at all? Many of the countries with the harshest laws against LGBTQ communities are some of America’s close “friends.”in much of the world. About 70 countries outlaw gay acts, and laws in 12 countries apply the death penalty in some cases, though several thankfully don’t enforce it.
Where laws are changing, the trend has generally been toward more acceptance rather than less. Botswana, Gabon, Angola, Barbados and Singapore have all rolled back laws criminalizing gay sex or discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in recent years.
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