Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law.

Uganda has passed a new law that criminalizes being LGBTQ, with life imprisonment for being LGBTQ and the death penalty for gay sex with a minor. The law also prohibits advocacy for LGBTQ rights and mandates people to report the community to law enforcement. Same-sex intercourse is already criminalized in the country, and rights groups say the latest law expanding restrictions would violate fundamental rights of expression, privacy, and nondiscrimination. The law needs the assent of President Yoweri Museveni before it comes into effect but is likely to run into trouble with Uganda’s Western donors who have previously cut aid over the issue.