This year’s U.S. State Department “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” looked at LGBT life in nearly every nation on the planet and did an excellent job of documenting anti-LGBT abuse across the globe, the Council for Global Equality said March 11. The council further applauded State for urging “the use of diplomacy to counter this trend” of anti-gay hostility.
Introducing the report, which covered 2009, Michael Posner, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, singled out the situation in Uganda, where a draconian anti-gay bill has resulted in a seriously deteriorating atmosphere for LGBT people.
Among much else, the bill punishes “aggravated homosexuality” and a second conviction for “the offense of homosexuality” with the death penalty.
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