Uganda defends anti-gay law at main U.N. rights forum

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Uganda defends anti-gay law at main U.N. rights forum

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Uganda, under fire from Western nations, defended its toughened law on gays on Thursday as being aimed at "protecting" youth from homosexuality and discouraging public displays of gay love. Ambassador Christopher Onyanga Aparr told the United Nations Human Rights Council that sexual orientation was "not a fundamental human right" as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a landmark 1948 treaty. "It is important to underscore the fact that the law is not intended to discriminate, persecute or punish homosexuals by the sheer fact of their sexual orientation. Onyanga Aparr said that he was reacting to speeches this week by senior officials from Sweden and the United States.

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