In January, Ugandan LGBTQ activist Steven Kabuye was stabbed multiple times by two men travelling on a motorbike and left for dead on the outskirts of Kampala, the country’s capital city.
The 25-year-old, who had received several death threats after Uganda’s Parliament passed its Anti-Homosexuality Act last May, criminalising LGBTQ people, said that the attackers made no effort to rob him but were intent on stabbing him in the neck.
Uganda’s new law is one of several global examples of growing repression against sexual minorities. Earlier, Indonesia outlawed extramarital sex – effectively also criminalising same-sex sexual relationships. Last year, Russia banned the “international LGBT movement,” and some US states have introduced anti-transgender laws.
A multitude of countries are making it increasingly hard for women and girls to participate in everyday life as autonomous citizens. Many don’t allow harm reduction strategies for people who inject drugs, such as offering them less harmful substitutes. Numerous others are making it harder for civil society organisations to get foreign grants.
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