May 11th, 2011
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Author: Uganda’s parliament appears to have dropped plans to debate a controversial anti-gay bill after global condemnation.
The anti-gay bill was first proposed in late 2009 but it wasn’t debated until last Friday. The bill had been scheduled to be debated again on Wednesday but was dropped from parliament’s updated schedule.
Here's the Ugandan parliament's order paper for Wednesday, which does not list the bill.
However, Warren Throckmorton writes:
(UPDATE: 12:50pm Kampala, 5/11) I just spoke with Ranny Ismail, spokeswoman for Parliament, who told me that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is still in committee. The report on the bill is indeed complete but in their procedure, the bill is still considered in committee and is not on the agenda for business today. However, she said that Parliament could carry forward all unfinished business in all committees if a member makes a motion to do so and it passes. She says this has happened before. This information is in contrast to what committee chair Stephen Tashobya told me on several occasions, although I assume now that he was addressing the fate of the AHB specifically if a motion to continue is not made. Because she was unsure about the fate of such a motion, she said she would not know the final outcome until about 7pm in Kampala.
Hopefully the AP hasn't jumped the gun on this news before we're out of the woods.
We'll see.
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