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�Donors want gay rights� - New Vision 6/11/2003
By Nasur Wambedde
Donors are currently pressurising Uganda to legalise homosexuality, the executive director of Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Livingstone Ssewanyana, has said.
Ssewanyana said this during a recent paralegal workshop at Sunrise Inn in Mbale.
He said the pressure was directed at civil society organisations and government bodies advocating human rights in Uganda.
Recently, The New Vision reported that Ugandan homosexuals had submitted to donors a $1m-proposal for mass mobilisation.
Ssewanyana said legalising homosexuality in Uganda was still a controversial issue as it was highly contested by religious leaders and the public.
He said gay rights activists argued that there was no reason why the practice should not be legalised.
Ssewanyana said boarding schools were one area where homosexuality had been practised for long.
Participants, who included teachers, law enforcement officers, reli
gious
and local leaders, opposed the proposal saying it was a foreign culture being imposed on Africans by Western donors.
Published on: Thursday, 6th November, 2003 |
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