The then-UN Commission on Human Rights established the UN human rights office with government backing in Uganda in 2005 to focus on human rights in conflict-affected northern and northeastern Uganda.

This creates serious human rights and security risks, Human Rights Watch said. Several other countries use technology that allows for vehicles to be tracked when authorities can scan them.

Human Rights Watch research found that after the 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act was passed, LGBTI people in Uganda faced reduced access to health services and HIV prevention information, faced ...

A 2024 joint report by Human Rights Watch and the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights, based on interviews with over 100 children, parents, teachers, and education officials, found that the ...

Uganda’s Constitutional Court on April 3, 2024 upheld the abusive and radical provisions of the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling further entrenches ...

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Human Rights Watch found that in the lead-up to, and since the enactment of, the Anti-Homosexuality Act, the government has deliberately negatively shaped the public discourse about LGBT people in ...

The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has petitioned the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) over the government's continued defiance of a Supreme Court order halting the trial of civilians in military ...

Ahead of a soon-to-be-released Human Rights Watch report examining the impact of Uganda’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people ...

With only a few months to Uganda's 2026 general elections, the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) and its partners have called on the Electoral Commission and security agencies to strictly abide by ...

The World Bank says it is lifting a ban on loans to Uganda that it had put in place two years ago when the country passed a ...

Uganda's Yoweri Museveni is eyeing a seventh term after 39 years in power, raising fears of lifetime rule and no return to ...