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How Uganda tried to silence #March2Parliament protests
“I expected to be killed. I expected to be raped,” said Aloikin Praise Opoloje, a few days after she was released from detention on bail in August this year. The 25-year-old law student had been arrested, along with dozens of others, after taking part in an anti-corruption protest in Kampala…
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Poor fishing communities targeted and discriminated against on L.Victoria
A year after his arrest by the Fish Protection Unit of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Moses Musitwa was still paying off debts he…
‘Worse than business as usual’: EU overlooks Uganda’s attack on human rights
The European Union claims to stand up for human rights, the rule of law, transparency in government and peaceful, democratic elections. Yet in recent years…
How Makerere erased our freedoms
It is 7:00pm July 14, 2022. Despite the onset of darkness, hundreds of students are moving on all university roads, chanting their candidates’ names. On…
Karimojong women and children face tough choices home and away
Former President Apollo Milton Obote is famously quoted in the Uganda Gazette of 1963 to have said that “we shall not wait for Karamoja to…
Fresh details on digital number plates
Government pushes ahead with project despite concerns over Russian contractor and potential human rights violation As July 01 which is the new launch deadline for digital…