Parliament Speaker promises to enact a revised & harsher Anti-Homosexulity Bill

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Speaker of Parliament Uganda Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga. Photo by Edward Echwalu. Check out his Photo blog http://echwaluphotography.wordpress.com/
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The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 Timeline

When it happened

Thursday, 1 November 2012

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The speaker of the Parliament of Uganda promised to enact a revised anti-homosexuality bill, providing for harsher penalties against suspected LGBT people and anyone who fails to report them to authorities, including long-term imprisonment and the death penalty for what the law terms "repeat offenders".