Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law with life imprisonment and death penalty.

Uganda has passed one of the world's toughest anti-gay laws that calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality. The new law levies harsher penalties for LGBTQ people and calls for the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality." The law has drawn swift condemnation from human rights organizations and LGBTQ rights groups in Uganda and throughout the world. The United Nations' Human Rights office called the law "a recipe for systematic violations of the rights of LGBT people & the wider population."