East African Business Week: Uganda ratifies protocol on African women rights, by Joseph Olanyo: Kampala – Uganda has ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.The protocol, also known as
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William Schabas blogs the ICC Review Conference
Along with many of our readers, Professor William Schabas (NUI-Galway) is attending the Review Conference of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda. He is posting his observations from the Conference, along with great "slice of life" details of the day-in,…
NY Times Feature on Global AIDS Crisis
NY Times: At Front Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart, by Donald G. McNeil Jr.: KAMPALA, Uganda. . . Uganda is the first and most obvious example of how the war on global AIDS is falling apart. The last…
U.S. Senate Action on International Issues
On Tuesday March 23, 2010, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will mark up several bills, including these:
- S. 1382 (to improve and expand the Peace Corps);
- S. 2839 (to amend the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize
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U.S. State Department Report Includes Human Rights Abuses Against LGBT People
The Council for Global Equality issued a press release today in which it applauded the 2010 State Department human rights report to Congress for underscoring the clear and growing crisis in human rights abuse directed against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…
UN Expert Says Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” Legislation Will Endanger Public Health
The so-called ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament not only violates the fundamental human rights of Ugandans, but will also impede efforts to combat HIV, a United Nations independent expert warned. “Uganda is in great danger of taking…
Video Explains the “Kill the Gays” Legislation Now Pending in Uganda
Legislation introduced in Uganda (and condemned by human rights activists around the world) would impose the death penalty on gay people. Here is a link to the legislation and here is a video that explains how the bill would also…
Uganda Bans Female Genital Mutilation
Time Magazine: Uganda Outlaws Female Circumcision: (KAMPALA, Uganda) — Uganda’s parliament has approved a bill banning female genital mutilation.Ministerof Ethics and Integrity James Nsaba Buturo said that the new law,passed without opposition late Thursday, could give offenders a lifesentence.…
Freedom of Expression in Uganda
Musede Denis Jude has published “Limitations to the Enjoyment of Freedom of Expression in Uganda.” Here is the abstract.
Freedom of expression in Uganda has been subject to a number of restrictions since colonial period to date. However in 1986…