Anti-Pornography Act of 2014

The Anti-Pornography Act (“APA”) bans creation, publication, distribution, and abetting of pornography and child pornography. It also creates a nine-member council to handle pornography issues, including public education, maintaining a registry of offenders, and destruction of seized materials. Human rights groups have expressed concerns that the language defining pornography as “any representation through publication, exhibition, cinematography, indecent show, information technology or by whatever means, of a person engaged in real or stimulated [sic] explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual excitement” is overly broad and could lead to confusion. For example, some organizations have nicknamed it Uganda’s “mini-skirt ban” because “any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual excitement” could be interpreted as applicable to revealing clothing.