Norway cuts Uganda aid in gay law protest

[The Straight Story]

Norway cuts Uganda aid in gay law protest

Norway has announced it is holding back 50 million kroner ($8m) of aid to Uganda in protest at its new draconian law against homosexuality on the grounds that the law violates "fundamental human rights".

"Norway deeply regrets that Uganda's president today signed a new and stricter law against homosexuality," Norway's foreign minister, Børge Brende, said in a statement on Monday. "It will worsen the situation of an already vulnerable group, and criminalize individuals and organizations working for the rights of sexual minorities."

The new law strengthens the existing penalties for homosexual acts, with gay men now facing life imprisonment if arrested and found guilty.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni accused his Western critics of social imperialism as he signed the law into force on Monday in a ceremony on the lawn at the presidential residence in Entebbe.

http://www.thelocal.no/20140225/norway-cuts-aid-to-uganda-after-gay-law

[William769]

1. What needs to be done is cut the head off the snake.

But starting with money works also.

[Cha]

2. Bueno Bueno Bueno! It's a start..

thanks TSS.

"Norway deeply regrets that Uganda's president today signed a new and stricter law against homosexuality," Norway's foreign minister, Børge Brende, said in a statement on Monday. "It will worsen the situation of an already vulnerable group, and criminalize individuals and organizations working for the rights of sexual minorities."

[The Straight Story]

6. A couple others joined in as well:

The Dutch government said in a statement Thursday that it is suspending aid to Uganda's government but will continue supporting nongovernmental groups, joining the governments of Norway and Denmark in taking such action.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/27/uganda-hit-with-foreignaidcutsoverantigaylaw.html

[Cha]

7. Excellent!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. Hey Museveni. Fuck you. The money will dry up.

You and your regime will feel the wrath you stupid motherfucker.

[KitSileya]

4. Norway's foreign minister belongs to the conservative goverment.

He's a member of the Right party, who formed a cabinet with the Progress party after the elections in September. The Progress party is even more conservative (so blue that they're almost black is what we say about them, the conservative color in Norway being blue.) Now, the PP is against foreign aid entirely, but the Right party? Their previous finance minister was openly gay (and the first openly gay pro tem prime minister in the world, when the then prime minister was sick.)

Sometimes, after reading a lot of Norwegian political news, it is really jarring to realize how right-wing the entire political landscape in the US is.

As for Uganda, I hope many other nations follow suit. It's not like the aid reaches alot of ordinary Ugandans when they have goverments like these.

[Spacedog1973]

5. I guess

Gay people don't need aid.

[1awake]

8. Gay people need basic human rights

which are denied to them over and over again all over the damn world and specifically in the United States. It's disgusting how they are treated and how little is ever done for them. Do they need aid? yes, but helping to prop up a crap government isn't going to help.