But the new law still prescribes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Uganda's anti-LGBTQ bill appears to violate the constitution and urged the country's judiciary to review it.

LONDON -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ bills into law on Monday.

Here’s a look at how politicians across the world have reacted to Uganda’s anti-gay law: In a statement posted to Twitter after President Museveni signed the bill into law, Ugandan Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among encouraged the “duty bearers under the law to execute the mandate bestowed upon them in the Anti-Homosexuality Act.”

STORY: Alex Kofi Donkor was "disappointed" but "not surprised" as he watched Uganda enact one of Africa's harshest anti-LGBTQ laws to date.He's the founder of civil rights group 'LGBT Rights Ghana' - in a country that has its own proposed anti-LGBTQ bill.

Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, as in more than 30 African countries, but the new law goes further.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed a controversial anti-LGBTQ bill that punishes "gay sexual conduct" with life sentences and related offense with the death penalty.