On Tuesday Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, has pleaded with Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, to repeal or revise the law that puts harsh penalties on homosexuals, as well as people who are associated with them and does report them.
Spokesman for Ban Ki-moon, Martin Nesirky, said that, "The Secretary-General urges the Government to protect all persons from violence and discrimination, and hopes that the law can be revised or repealed at the earliest opportunity,” according to Reuters. He continued to say that the Secretary-General offers his support and the support of the United Nations to help to create a dialogue on the matter at hand to find a solution to changing the law.
According to the Independent, Secretary John Kerry also said that because of the law, the United States is concerned whether the bill “set back public health in Uganda” and if when addressing HIV/Aids can be “conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner.”
President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill into a law on Monday against protesters wishes. In the law, people associated with homosexuals must report them or be subjected to the same punishment. It is all banned to promote homosexuality.
Homosexuals in Uganda are afraid for their lives, in the event of what happed three years ago, when a newspaper published a list of homosexual people, and a homosexual activist was killed.