Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of human rights campaigners have renewed demands for the gazettement of National Memorial Day on which victims of Uganda’s post-independence violence are remembered. The call for National Memorial Day was first mooted in 2008 during the nationwide consultations for drafting the National …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is discussing a proposal to restructure the Amnesty Commission to oversee the implementation of the National Transitional Justice Policy for addressing the justice, accountability and reconciliation needs of conflict-affected communities. The proposal emerged in June this year after Cabinet rejected an earlier …
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