Monday 26 November 2012

U.S. Envoy to Uganda


Today's main news:


The top U.S. diplomat in Africa met over the weekend with leaders in Uganda to express concerns about an anti-gay bill pending before the country’s parliament that could be headed for a vote as soon as this week, according to the State Department...

“As we have regularly said, we call on the parliament of Uganda to look very carefully at this because Uganda’s own Human Rights Council has made clear that if this were to pass, it would put the country out of compliance with its own international human rights obligations,” Nuland said. “And so, Assistant Secretary Carson had a chance to make that point again and our strong opposition to this, to the president, to the parliament and to key decision makers in Uganda.”

There's another article here:


Which makes the important point: “Uganda’s own human rights council has made clear that if this were to pass, it would put the country out of compliance with its own international human rights obligations."

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