Goal: No more money for Ugandan homophobes from UK, US, Ikea, UN and EU

British, American and other international funding for anti-LGBTQ organizations in Uganda has come in for scrutiny and condemnation in the wake of a new report about how much foreign aid supports Ugandan homophobia.

Prominent among those anti-LGBTQ organizations is the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU), which contributed to the nation’s current anti-gay panic by promoting fears of “the growing spread of homosexuality” and the effect of “the LGBTQ agenda” on children.

The council lost US aid funding in 2014 during the Obama administration after it came out in support of Uganda’s anti-gay law, and was extremely influential in getting the bill retabled in February 2023. [which is when the U.K. cut off funding]. …

Other countries highlighted for their grants to Ugandan anti-LGBTQ religious groups since 2014 include the US, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Norway and Ireland, as well as the EU.

The report also explores funding from the UN organisations UNDP and UNFPA as well as from private foundations, including the IKEA Foundation. It discusses the IKEA Foundation’s donations amounting around $70,000 in the last decade to a funding project that included the Pentecostal Assemblies of God in Uganda as an implementing part

Goal: No more money for Ugandan homophobes from UK, US, Ikea, UN and EU