Judge Stephen Kavuma reads the verdict dismissing Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie Uganda’s Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, has struck down the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Law, ruling that Parliament passed it illegally. House Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, a proponent of the policy, ignored a quorum call before holding a vote last December with less than a third of lawmakers present.

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