Tag Archives: human rights

Beijing, China | THE INDEPENDENT | The global community has been challenged to practice mutual respect, and uphold harmonious co-existence between communities with diverse social systems, ideologies, cultures, histories and development levels. Crispin Kaheru, a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), made this call in remarks he made at …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  DGF Development Partner Statement on the Lifting of the Suspension ****** The development partners supporting the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) – Austria, Denmark, the European Union, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden – welcome the lifting of the suspension announced by H.E President Yoweri Kaguta …

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 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of the High Court has dismissed an application filed by jailed MPs Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Sewanyana in which they were seeking a compensation of 300 million shillings and a declaration that their rearrest shortly after being granted bail was a …

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Commanders of the Anti Stock Theft Unit-ASTU have been hailed by the UN human rights country representative, Robert Kotchani for respecting human rights while carrying out disarmament operations in Karamoja. Kotchani, who last week officially closed a one-day Karamoja regional human rights protection meeting held …

ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | The 24th annual report on the state of human rights and freedoms in Uganda 2021 compiled by the Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC has come under scrutiny from the experts and rights activists for paying little attention to human rights issues witnessed during the 2021 general …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC has decried funding as a major obstacle in fulfilling its mandate to monitor and advance human rights in the country. This was revealed by Mariam Wangadya, the Chairperson of the Commission while delivering the 2021 Human Rights Report to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has petitioned the Judicial Service Commission over what he has termed the unprofessional conduct of Justice Dr. Douglas Singiza. Dr. Singiza, who was recently appointed by President Museveni as acting Justice of the High Court was the judicial officer presiding over Kakwenza’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | France has not shied away from the human rights abuses in Uganda, the French Ambassador to Uganda, Jules-Armand Aniambossou has told Opposition Members of Parliament. He disclosed this while meeting the Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga and a section of opposition legislators at parliament …

New York, U.S. | Xinhua | The terms used by U.S. and European journalists to describe non-European refugees reflect a racist European and American policy that only extends human rights protections to certain groups of people to the exclusion of others, making the death and suffering of Middle-Eastern, African and Asian …