On Thursday 20 April during the plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament condemned the anti-LGBTIQ bill in Uganda in a resolution adopted by 416 votes in favour, 62 against and 36 abstentions.
The text contains diplomatic, legal and financial proposals to discourage the enactment of the law. It suggests, for example, that Uganda should be removed from the ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) scheme, which exempts imported goods, except for arms, from tariffs.
More broadly, it...