Aid donors including the United States and United Kingdom gave at least $40 million since 2014 to organizations that advocated against LGBTQ+ rights in Uganda, according to a new report.
The money was handed over, as part of development programs worth $75 million in total, to anti-LGBTQ+ religious organizations including the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, which previously lost U.S. aid funding due to its anti-LGBTQ+ activities.
The report comes as the country looks set to pass a draconian anti-LGBTQ+ law that would prescribe the death penalty for “serial offenders” of homosexuality.
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