Ms Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera:

There is a lot of condemnation from the international community, but also in Uganda there is a lot of condemnation from civil society. Human rights organisations, health service providers and women's rights organisations have come together and are standing in solidarity with us and have condemned the Bill. The Uganda Human Rights Commission has also come out openly and condemned the Bill. At the same time, the donor countries have come out and threatened to cut aid, but we have made it clear that is not going down well in our community because we are being scapegoated on account of that. We have made it very clear that we do not want aid to Uganda to be cut because even the LGBT community benefits from the aid. We have been advising our donor countries and partners there should be clear guidelines on policies between donor countries and Uganda so that if there is discrimination against certain groups and they are not getting the services they should be getting, some of the aid will be channelled to civil societies dealing directly with these issues.