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UHRC attends a validation workshop on the election study report by the Human Rights Center

The Uganda Human Rights Commission actively participated in a workshop organized by the Human Rights Centre Uganda which took place on Thursday 19th August 2010 at Protea Hotel, Kampala.
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UHRC Members attend Workshop

The Uganda Human Rights Commission was represented by Commissioner Agaba Maguru and Commissioner Katebalirwe Amooti at a two-day East and Southern African regional workshop on the Continental Human rights systems in Africa.
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UHRC staff sensitized on rights of people with HIV /AIDS

The Chairperson UHRC, Mr. Med Kaggwa has urged the UHRC staff to fully participate and concentrate in the training workshop so as to achieve its objectives.
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Enact the Anti-Torture Bill

The Chairperson UHRC, Mr. Med Kaggwa has called upon the government to enact the anti-torture Bill as a measure to strengthen the legal framework to curb acts of torture.
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Press Realeses

Press Release on the two-day Conference under the theme ‘Prevention of conflict during 2011 elections and beyond’.


The President of Uganda H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni  told the conference on prevention of conflicts in the 2011 elections, that government has put in place all measures necessary to avert violence that had characterised some elections in the past.

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Press Statement On The Bomb Attacks In Kampala On Sunday 11Tth July 2010
As a national human rights organisation with the constitutional mandate to monitor issues of human rights in Uganda, the Uganda Human Rights Commission is gravely saddened by the bomb attacks that rocked Kampala at the Kyaddondo Rugby Club and Ethiopian Village Restaurant in Kabalagala on Sunday 11th July 2010.
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African Union Press Statement on International Day in Support Of Victims of Torture
On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and its Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA) jointly call upon States Parties to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter) to take concrete measures to respect their commitments with regard to the right of victims to an effective remedy for the human rights violations suffered  as a result of torture and other ill-treatment, as well as the right to full redress, including compensation and rehabilitation.
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Press Statement by the Uganda Human Rights Commission and the Coalition Against Torture with support from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights


As we join the rest of the world on June 26th to commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a day adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1997, Uganda is yet to domesticate the International Convention against Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, ratified in 1996.
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