Uganda’s NGO Bureau, the country’s regulatory authority for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), should immediately rescind the decision to suspend 54 organizations that they have classified as NGOs, which comes in the context of intensifying intimidation and harassment of civil society organizations. The suspension is intended to...
This article was first published on the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders' Uganda website (Kampala / February 18, 2021) The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Uganda (NCHRD-U) expresses deep and grave concern over the continued targeting of journalists while they undertake their legitimate...
Source: National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders- Uganda Uganda: Urgent call to fully constitute the NHRI by the appointing of a substantive Chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission in face of worrying attacks to fundamental human rights and freedoms of Human Rights Defenders. (Kampala / November...
On 12 September 2019, DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project), in collaboration with AfricanDefenders (the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network), convened the second interactive dialogue between protection service providers (PSPs) and human rights defenders (HRDs) in exile in Uganda....
