Uganda

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

Uganda: Incommunicado detention/ Torture and other ill-treatment ...
27 April 2009

Congolese refugee Nganizi Jean-Baptist has been held in Uganda without charge or trial since his arrest on 24 April 2008. Over the course of the year, he has been ...

Urgent Action       AFR 59/002/2009

African Human Rights Defenders acknowledge gains but concerns ...
27 April 2009

Human rights defenders from across Africa say they remain deeplyconcerned by the threats, harassment, intimidation and physicalviolence they continue to face in ...

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International Criminal Court "working to protect African victims" ...
5 March 2009

The International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, discusses the ICC's work in the wake of the court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's ...

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United Nations should not aid fugitives from international justice ...
18 February 2009

Amnesty International is demanding that the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) co-operates with the International Criminal Court (ICC) by providing the whereabouts ...

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Uganda: International organization must not help fugitive evade ...
30 January 2009

Amnesty International today severely criticized the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for agreeing to facilitate the transfer of a senior leader of ...

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Mandatory death penalty ruled unconstitutional in Uganda | Amnesty ...
22 January 2009

The Supreme Court of Uganda has ruled however, that the death penalty per se remainsconstitutional.

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Uganda: Amnesty International calls on the Ugandan government to ...
22 January 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AFR 59/001/2009. 22 January 2009. Uganda: Amnesty International calls on the Ugandan ...

Document       AFR 59/001/2009

Uganda: Left to their own devices: The continued suffering of ...
17 November 2008

The conflict in northern Uganda between Government of Uganda’s armed forces and the Lord’s Resistance Army lasted nearly twenty years. Since 2006, with the cessation ...

Report       AFR 59/009/2008

Uganda: Government miserably failing in care of victims of ...
17 November 2008

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who suffered abuses during the 20-year conflict in Northern Uganda remain destitute and physically and mentally ...

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Ugandan government must establish reparations programme for war ...
17 November 2008

Widespread human rights violations were committed during northern Uganda's 20-year conflict between the Government of Uganda's armed forces and the Lord's Resistance ...

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