By: Eric Kabeera Almost 12 months since the publication of a report directing Tanzania’s Government to compensate Rwandans who were evicted from that country in August 2013, nothing has been done. The report compiled by top local government officials in […]
The demand by the Maragoli to win cultural rights and identity in Uganda is in order By Editorial The demand by the Maragoli to win cultural rights and identity in Uganda is in order. But the demand must give us […]
Constitutional Petition 50 of 2011 (interim judgment) The Petition herein dated 19th August 2011 is presented by the organization MUSLIMS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (MUHURI) on behalf of MOHAMMED ADEN MOHAMMED & 39 OTHERS who the organization alleges to ‘belong to […]
The National Council of State rose from its emergency meeting on Thursday to condemn policies by some state governments to register citizens, as it set up a six-man committee with a mandate to fish out discriminatory practices across the country […]
By Gianluca Iazzolino Key points There are growing numbers of Somali migrants in Uganda, where a Somali community has existed since colonial times. Changes in the wider pattern of migration among Somalis in East Africa are driven by pressure on […]
By Halima Athumani Internal Affairs Minister Aronda Nayakairima has noted that the National ID registration exercise has been delayed by exhortation, delay in provision of kits, unreliable power supply, malfunctioned kits and others. He cited cases of exhortation in Kampala, […]
By Tobias Chanji KWALE COUNTY: A meeting convened by the Mozambican ambassador Floriano Maneno to quell the growing dissent among Makonde community of Kwale and his Government turned chaotic at Jomo Kenyatta Primary School on Sunday after they split in […]
Elders and leaders of the Maragoli, a tribe which originated from Kenya and settled in parts of Bunyoro and Busoga are in Kampala to petition parliament seeking recognition as an indigenous Ugandan tribe. Tribes which were in the country by […]
On Thursday 24th July 2014, the House directed the Minister of Internal Affairs to brief Parliament on the on-going mass registration of citizens’ exercise under the National Security Information System (NSIS) Project. I am pleased to present the brief. [Section […]
Petition for Maragoli Community to be listed in 3rd schedule to the constitution (originally dated 29 July 2014, response 14 May 2015). Maragoli petition to Uganda parliament
1. The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Secretariat), received a complaint on 18 December 2012 from Eyob B. Asemie (the Complainant) against the Kingdom of Lesotho (the Respondent State), State Party to the African […]
CEDAW/C/SWZ/CO/1-2 Concluding observations on the combined initial and second periodic reports of Swaziland Nationality 28.While noting the efforts of the State party to tackle challenges relating to its nationality legislation, the Committee is concerned that both the Constitution and the […]