http://humanrightshouse.orgenHuman Rights House Foundationniels.jacob@humanrightshouse.org (Niels Jacob Harbitz)Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:49:19 GMTTue, 07 Sep 2010 20:03:14 GMTNoop 2.360http://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14880http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14880.htmlThreats and intimidation against journalists in Uganda are commonplace. A proposed new media law as well as next year’s presidential elections could mean more bad news for reporters and whole media outlets in the country. The proposed new laws are ‘draconian,’ says Andrew Mwenda, right, editor of the Independent magazine.Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:49:19 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14201http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14201.htmlA group of Ugandan human rights organizations called on the Ugandan authorities to commit to improvements to protect human rights as part of their campaign for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. In a letter sent to the Ugandan government yesterday, the organizations, as part of a wider international coalition working around the Council elections, called for national legislation to comply with core human rights treaties.Fri, 21 May 2010 07:40:34 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/14145http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14145.htmlIn a statement released today, HURINET Uganda expresses concern that the government of Uganda has systematically moved to oppress and muzzle media freedom and freedom of speech using draconian laws and institutions. -We are disturbed by the proposed legislation, says HURINET, who speaks on behalf of 35 Ugandan human rights organisations from across the country. read the full statement below.Tue, 11 May 2010 07:02:14 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13605http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13605.htmlMore than 450,000 people have signed an online petition urging Uganda's parliament to drop a bill that would impose the death sentence for the crime of "aggravated homosexuality" - when an HIV-positive person has sex with anyone who is disabled or under the age of 18.Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:10:29 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13444http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13444.htmlThe bishops of the so-called 'Province of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa' has issued a strong statement raising concerns about the dire human rights consequences of Uganda's proposed new law, which will ban homosexuality, and even make it punishable with the death penalty. Read the full statement below.Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:15:43 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13393http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13393.htmlEight months after the end of joint military operations by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, many parts of Orientale Province, in northeastern DRC, are still in turmoil, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Attacks on civilians by Ugandan rebels and local militias have left 340,000 people displaced, and 30,000 refugees have fled to Sudan.Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:02:16 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13389http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13389.htmlIf the African Peer Review Mechanism is not to degenerate into meaninglessness, writes L. Muthoni Wanyeki, Africa's governments, regional councils and citizens will need to revitalise its progress. The coverage of the recent African Union (AU) summit focused, unsurprisingly, on whether Libya’s Muammar al-Gaddafi would retain the chair.Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:05:49 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13327http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13327.htmlThe UN Special Rapporteur on health, Anand Grover, warned Friday that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill being considered by the Ugandan Parliament is “not only a violation of the fundamental human rights of Ugandans, but will also undermine efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.”Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:49:47 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13313http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13313.htmlIn Uganda, a ruling this week in a landmark case of two journalists seeking to compel their government’s disclosure of multinationals oil deals highlighted the challenges to public transparency just before media leaders, press freedom advocates, officials, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gather in Ghana next week at the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information.Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:19:52 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/13109http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/13109.htmlThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, right, urged the Ugandan government today to shelve a “draconian” draft bill on homosexuality that is due to be put before the Ugandan parliament later in January, saying it would bring the country into a direct collision with established international human rights standards aimed at preventing discrimination.Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:26:18 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12974http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12974.htmlUnited Nations human rights teams are warning of increased weapon trafficking in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as armed villagers form units in response to killings, rapes and kidnappings carried out by the Lord’s Resistance Army.Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:34:30 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12967http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12967.htmlA new report released Monday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and MONUC (the UN Mission in DR Congo) outlines a rolling series of attacks carried out over a ten-month period by the renegade armed group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), during which they killed at least 1,200 people, abducted 1,400 – including some 600 children and 400 women – and displaced a total of around 230,000 people. Right, LRA child soldiers in South Sudan.Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:22:49 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12710http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12710.htmlBoth Britain and Canada's prime ministers have told Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni that a proposed law that would result in homosexuals being imprisoned for life or even executed needs to be withdrawn. The proposed legislation has created a furore in Western countries with protesters saying it contravenes international human rights legislation.Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:19:06 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12700http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12700.html-Uganda's government should reform the country's election laws to improve accountability for election-related crimes and reduce the risk of violence in the upcoming 2011 elections, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Politically motivated violence, intimidation, and bribery of voters have marred previous national elections in Uganda, but accountability for such crimes has been very weak.Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:08:59 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12279http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12279.htmlThe media was locked out yesterday of a torture court case involving Uganda’s Chief of Military Intelligence, Brigadier James Mugira. The order barring the media was issued by Justice Yorakamu Bamwine, who was presiding over a case where the secretary for trade and industry in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)- the biggest opposition party Uganda, has sued Mugira for allegedly being tortured when he was detained by the Joint Anti Terrorism Task force.Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:57 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12254http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12254.htmlIn an unprecedented move in Uganda for the issue of sexual minorities' rights, 20 human rights and civil society organisations have come together to protest the anti-homosexuality bill that was tabled in parliament last week. The statement raises the bill's broader constitutional and human rights implications. If turned into law, Uganda further undermines its own constitution, and brings itself directly at odds with its own obligations, as laid down for instance in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Read the full statement below.Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:19:24 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12252http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12252.htmlThe Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), denounces the submission of a bill to the Ugandan Parliament that would, if approved, considerably restrict the activities of human rights defenders and NGOs in Uganda, and punish the so-called “promotion” of homosexuality with imprisonment.Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:22:56 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12182http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12182.htmlThe Eastern Africa Journalists Association strongly supports calls and initiatives in Uganda aimed at repealing or amending outdated laws currently being used to suppress freedom of expression and freedom of media in that country.Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:41:15 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/12147http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/12147.htmlVideo footage collected from YouTube leaves little doubt that the riots in Kampala last month were met with excessive use of force by the Ugandan police and military forces. An unestablished number of demonstrators and ordinary civilians, most likely in excess of 20, were killed, and many more injured by stray bullets and through heavy baton beatings.Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:56:30 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/11723http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/11723.htmlAt least 8 people have been killed in riots in Kampala’s central business district, Uganda, on Thursday, as Buganda monarchists protested what they say is government mistreatment of their King, Ronald Mutebi, right.Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:58:56 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/11738http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/11738.htmlUgandan journalist and radio talk show host Kalundi Robert Serumaga was arrested by police outside the CBS studios in Kampala on Friday evening. Serumaga was bundled into an unmarked car. Nobody, including his family, has heard from him since. If still alive, he is most likely being confined in an unknown police station or a secret detention / interrogation centre, a so-called safe house. Torture is known to take place in such places.Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:58:46 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/11767http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/11767.htmlUganda's Radio One talk show host Robert Kalundi Serumaga was on Tuesday afternoon released on bail after being charged with sedition in a court in Kampala. Serumaga who spent four days in police custody was accused by the state of “attacking the person of the president during a television show on September 11”.Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:56:21 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/11762http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/11762.htmlThe East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) is deeply concerned by continued restrictions on freedom of expression and the media, including attacks on individual journalists, following last week’s violence in Kampala. The Ugandan government’s decision to shut down four radio stations and to suspend live public debates should be immediately revoked and those found responsible for violations against individual journalists held to account.Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:56:12 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/11823http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/11823.htmlA recent spate of media arrests has provoked widespread condemnation, and raised fears that President Yoweri Museveni might be planning a clamp-down on press freedom ahead of next year's national election.Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:56:01 GMThttp://humanrightshouse.org/noop/page.php?p=Articles/11837http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/11837.htmlAfter nearly two years of trial the Tweraneho Listeners Club trial has today finally been dismissed marking a positive step for freedom of expression and the media in Uganda in what many have described as a politicised case.Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:55:50 GMT