'I'm scared': What it's like to be LGBTQ+ in a country where you could be killed
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The new anti-homosexuality law now makes "aggravated homosexuality" - which is defined as sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with those under 18, and other categories of vulnerable people - punishable with prison sentences of up to 14 years.
On the Sky News Daily, Kamali Melbourne speaks to Jay Mulucha, a human rights activist and executive director of Fem Alliance Uganda, who tells us what it's like to be LGBTQ+ in Uganda and to Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz, Deputy Director of the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch, about the history of these laws.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Junior Producer: Amy Lakin
Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:02.0 | And know that from that single drop, |
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| 0:20.0 | to change their own lives for generations |
| 0:22.4 | to come. Add water aid to your will. Search WaterAid legacy to find out how. You know, when Helen |
| 0:31.0 | used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't. After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found |
| 0:42.3 | this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.8 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in. |
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| 1:04.3 | That's the sound of 348 Ugandan MPs celebrating. |
| 1:11.6 | They've just overwhelmingly passed a new law. |
| 1:15.6 | Only one person voted against it. |
| 1:18.6 | And the law that these MPs are cheering for? |
| 1:21.6 | It's one that makes it illegal for lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans-Ugandans |
| 1:26.6 | to have a relationship with someone of the same sex. |
| 1:30.3 | We will have our morals, we will protect our children and we are making this law, we are making this law for ourselves, |
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