Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Ugandan President signed a law last February that imposes very tough and unacceptable penalties on homosexual acts. This legislation threatens to usher in an era of very harsh treatment of offenders and could lead to widespread oppression of gay men and lesbians, which should be totally unacceptable to the international community. The denial of basic human rights is not tolerable. Has the Minister conveyed our concerns to the Ugandan authorities in respect of this very repressive legislation?

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