Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise were taken into custody under laws that have outraged LGBTQ+ community and rights activists

Two women have been arrested and detained in Uganda after allegedly kissing in public, an act of “same-sex activity” which can lead to a life sentence in the east African country.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Lemme guess the word “family” or “values” appears in the name or is the whole name. Nothing says wholesome family values like state sanctioned murder.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    29·
    12 hours ago

    Personal opinion: boycott Uganda as long as their president keeps opressing minorities.

    It’s a short step from opressing sexual minorities to opressing religious minorities. From there to ethnic minorities: just a small step. From there to repressing policical opposition: another small step. From there to something incredibly harmful to the whole people: just a small step.

    • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Honest question - what does boycotting Uganda look like? As an American who doesn’t dabble in international trade, are there even ways I could be doing business with Uganda?

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        4 hours ago

        Some of their major exports are coffee, cocoa, gold, oil, sugar, beans, vanilla, tea and fish products.

        Other than maybe some brands of coffee, you won’t be able to source any of this stuff, when talking international exports like this, these are goods going directly to manufactures all over the world for packaging and processing and reselling. It’s just something that sounds good on paper, but in reality I doubt there are any vanilla extract factory CEO’s in China reading Lemmy right now and suddenly standing up in their chair in shock and calling their purchasing managers.

      • perestroika@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        One of Uganda’s main sources of foreign revenue would be coffee.

        Companies might also want to check where their cobalt, gold, tungsten and copper comes from, since some part could be coming from Uganda. Remembering the name “Kilembe mines” and avoiding any dealing with them would put a dent in Uganda’s budget.