Fri Sep 8, 2023 – 9:16 pm EDT
ENTEBBE, Uganda (LifeSiteNews) — An African pro-family, inter-parliamentary forum issued a declaration calling on African nations to combat pornography as a “driver of exploitation of women and children.”
The first-ever African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty, held this year by Uganda’s Parliamentary Forum on Family in partnership with the African Bar Association and the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage, released an “Entebbe Declaration” shared with LifeSiteNews by Tobias Nauruki, who works with pro-life and pro-family legislatures, professionals, religious leaders, and organizations in Africa.
The document’s main purpose is twofold: to urge African nations to ban and restrict access to porn (in the Entebbe Declaration on Pornography), as well as to urge the countries to refrain from signing the Post-Cotonou ACP-EU Treaty between over 100 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Union (EU), unless certain conditions are met (in the Entebbe Declaration on the Post-Cotonou ACP-EU Treaty).
The parliamentarians behind the declaration warn that this newest iteration of the ACP-EU Treaty undermines national sovereignty and African values, including by hindering the ability of African nations to stop the “sexualization of the African child” through
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