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HRAPF IDAHOT MESSAGE ON LAWS AND POLICIES IN EAST AFRICA

HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AND PROMOTION FORUM (HRAPF) IDAHOT 2016 Laws and policies affecting SOGI rights in Uganda, Kenya and Burundi Sex between people of the same sex is criminalized in Uganda, Kenya as well as Burundi. In Uganda and Kenya, this criminalization has been inherited from British colonial rule and retained on the law books. The Ugandan Penal Code Act criminalizes the having of ‘carnal knowledge against the order...