Two years ago, the World Bank said it was removing a ban on Uganda’s issuance of a strict new law against the LGBCCU people.
In 2023, Uganda voted in some of the toughest late anti -late inscriptions in the world, which means someone is involved Some gay-sexual actions Death may be punished.
Since then, according to the Ugandan Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, hundreds of people have been expelled from their homes, due to their sexuality or being tied to violence.
But the World Bank states that new “mitigation measures” allow LGBTTU to bring out money in a way that is not harmful or discriminatory against people.
The BBC has asked the Ugandan government and the World Bank for greater response.
“The World Bank cannot be aimed at ending poverty and increasing the abundance of allocation on a living planet unless we participate in financial providing projects,” a spokesman told the AFP news agency on Thursday.
“Social protection, education, and forced relocation and refugee” new projects have also been approved, a World Bank spokesman told Reuters News.
Analysts say that the world bank is one of the largest sources of external financing in Uganda, playing an important role in infrastructure development. Road updates and wide power access The agency is supporting the projects In the country of East Africa.
However, some economists have often criticized the funding model used by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which perpetuates dependence and destroys debt conditions that restrict sustainable growth in the poorest countries of the world.
Uganda belongs to several African countries – including Jubilee And Kenya – In recent years, LGBITTUCU has witnessed actions to curtail the rights of people.
In 2023, the news of the Uganda Draconian Uniform Act prompted international condemnation.
It costs the country somewhere in the later year between 70 470m and 70 1.7 billion (£ 347m and b 1.2 billion), mainly due to frozen financial, mainly due to frozen financial According to the estimated of the UK -based Charity Open Business.
The Ugandan government states that its anti -gay law reflects the conservative values of its people, but its critics say that the law is far from high unemployment and real matters Ongoing attack on opposition parties.
“This is a low-to-do fruit,” a researcher Orem Nico working at Uganda’s Human Rights Watch, Told to CBC at the time.
“It is being formed to be a threat to foreign and children’s children.”
Shots, victims of elimination And it is worse that the new law of Ugandan is so bad that people are dared to attack them on the basis of their perceived sex.
The fact that the law assigns a 20 -year prison sentence to “promote” homosexuality is found to be attacked by someone who protects LGBCCUI rights, but the government denies this.
The Uganda Information Minister told the AFP news agency on Thursday that it was “private but not promoting it”.
Chris Baryomunsi said the World Bank was banned from lending to Uganda two years ago, but welcomed the organization’s heart change.
