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Planned Fossil Fuel Project Threatens Human Rights, Drives Climate Change COMMENT |  Hellen Huang | “We are now drilling.” Uganda’s energy minister recently confirmed at COP29 that the government was pressing ahead with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). The 1,443-kilometer pipeline will connect oilfields in western Uganda with the port of Tanga in …

Kampala, Uganda | ORYEM NYEKO | Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the arrest of ant-corruption protesters in Kampala, and demanded they be released. On July 23 and 24, police in Uganda’s capital Kampala detained at least 60 people protesting widespread corruption in the government. “This latest crackdown on protesters …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The international rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has described the new digital number plates that were recently rolled out by the Ministry of Works and Transport and the Ministry of Security as another intrusive measure by the government against its citizens. In a …

New Human Rights Watch report documents outcry from Ugandan ‘environmental defenders’ Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Environmental defenders and anti-fossil fuel activists in Uganda continue to face arbitrary arrests, harassment, and threats for raising concerns over a planned oil pipeline popularly known as EACOP, according to a new report published …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda should quickly adopt and put into effect a new law to protect everyone from violence and harassment, including sexual harassment, at work, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. In a positive move, Uganda formally ratified the landmark global treaty to end violence and harassment …

Human Rights Watch issues ‘biased’ report on oil pipeline Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU), the government agency that regulates the oil and gas sector, has accused Human Rights Watch of ‘bias’ following a new report the New York-based non-profit published on July 10. “The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The M23 rebels are feuding with an international human rights NGO, Human Rights Watch over the killing of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo eastern territory of Rutshuru. M23 rebels have been battling with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said he will not take lessons from anybody about human rights in Uganda. Addressing a delegation from Human Rights Watch led by the Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Roth, which had gone to present to him a report on human rights …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday accused Kenyan police of killing at least six people and beating and extorting others while enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Kenya imposed the 7pm-5am lockdown from March 27. The rights watchdog said police …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Gay Tanzanian activist Tee, 34, recalls with nostalgia a time when Tanzania was like “paradise” for LGBT people — before the 2015 election of President John Magufuli ushered in fear and persecution. It’s all relative. Tanzania has long criminalised same-sex relations, and social stigma has always …