The anti-LGBTQ law enacted by Ugandan parliament has been considered deplorable by the UN and the NGO Amnesty International.

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda was urged by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to veto the anti-homosexuality law.

The anti-gay legislation that Uganda's parliament passed imposes severe penalties on same-sex partnerships there.

Despite a hectic session, the House of Representatives conducted its last vote on the bill on Tuesday, and the Speaker of the House determined that the "Ayes have it," according to AFP news.

Even though homosexuality is already illegal in the country, the anti-gay legislation proposes that anyone in the conservative East African nation who engages in same-sex activity or who identifies publicly as LGBTQ could face up to 10 years in prison.

In a report by Africanews.com, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on Museveni on Wednesday not to enact the law.

"The passage of this discriminatory text -probably the worst of its kind in the world-- is a deeply troubling development," he said in a statement.

"If signed into law by the president, (this law) will make lesbians, gays and bisexuals criminals in Uganda simply by existing (...). It could give carte blanche to the systematic violation of almost all their human rights," he added.

Amnesty's director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, in a statement said "this ambiguous, vaguely worded law criminalizes even those who promote "homosexuality".