UNHCR boss Volker Turk criticises Uganda anti-LGBTQ law

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. PHOTO | RICHARD PIERRIN | AFP

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Head Volker Turk said Uganda's anti-LGBTQ bill appears to violate the Constitution and urged the country's Judiciary to review it.

The proposal signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni is considered one of the harshest in the world and carries the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality". The government says the Constitution has been followed.