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"Mr President, Commissioner, exactly one year ago, we adopted a resolution in this House concerning gays and lesbians and the Bahati Bill in Uganda.
Why return, one year later, with an almost identical resolution?
Because the problem is far from solved. Firstly, the evangelist movement ‘The Family’, which was behind this Bahati Bill, has not given up, and we can still see this bill reappearing in Uganda.
The second reason is that, last October and November, Uganda’s
newspaper carried out a name and shame campaign and published a list of Ugandan homosexuals, who were immediately tracked down and attacked and are still in hiding as outcasts today. The Ugandan Constitutional Court has stopped the publication of this newspaper but it is clear that the atmosphere has deteriorated. This is a manhunt.
Thirdly, only 13 African countries recognise homosexuals’ rights. The remaining countries have very different laws, but some of them – Sudan, northern Nigeria, Mauritania – still punish homosexuals with death.
Yet, and I shall end with this, very recently, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries made a statement – a somewhat one-sided one in my view – to the effect that they were aware that this issue regarding homosexuals bothered us slightly, but that these aspects were part of their culture. No, they are human rights, they are universal values, and we really do want these universal values to be strongly defended by the Commission and by the entire European Union."@en1
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