Uganda's Apartheid-Style Atrocity Deserves Sanctions

The leaders who spoke of an African renaissance and who brought about the African Union ignored gay rights. We are seeing the consequences of their omission today.

The Constitutive Act of the African Union mentions gender equality, human rights and social justice. But in contrast to the South African Constitution, sexual orientation was left out. That probably wasn't an unintentional omission and it was a sign of things to come.

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