The fourth EU-Africa Summit is taking place in Brussels since yesterday, and although not officially on the agenda, extremely harsh new anti-LGBT laws are on leaders’ minds.

The summit brings together the heads of state and government from the European Union and the African continent, as well as EU and African Union leaders. They will discuss political and economic ties, as well as human rights.

However, discussions are overshadowed by anti-LGBT laws recently adopted in Ugandaand Nigeria, and currently discussed in the Ethiopian Parliament. National politicians are pushing to follow suit in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya.

Anti-LGBT laws were also at the heart of the Pan-African-European Parliamentary Summit, on Monday and Tuesday. Speaking to the Parliamentary Summit, European Parliament President Martin Schulz called the new laws “a disgrace” and “an unacceptable violation of the basic rights of individuals.”

Read more at the European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT rights official website