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March 14, 2022 News

Submission to the Committee on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on Uganda

39th Ordinary Session, 2022

This submission relates to the review of Uganda under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. It focuses on barriers to realizing the right to education for pregnant girls and adolescent mothers, child labor and the impact of Covid-19…

February 1, 2021 News

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Uganda

80th pre-session

Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls by Soldiers (article 2) Ugandan soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic have sexually exploited or abused at least 13 women and girls between 2015 and 2017, including at least one rape,…

March 13, 2018 News

Global Unions, International Human Rights and Workers’ Rights Organizations Call for End to Politically Motivated Prosecution of Tola Moeun

We, the undersigned global unions and international human rights and workers’ rights organizations, call for the charges against Cambodian human rights defender Moeun Tola to be immediately dropped. As reported on January 18, 2018, in the Phnom…

February 1, 2013 News

Global: HRW Submission to the CEDAW Committee

General Recommendation on Access to Justice

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) for its General Recommendation on access to justice. Human Rights Watch has done extensive research on this…

March 16, 2012 News

Statement at the Human Rights Council on the adoption of the Universal Periodic Review report of Uganda

Oral statement under Item 6

Human Rights Watch welcomes the Human Rights Council’s review of Uganda in October 2011 and its March 2012 adoption of the Universal Periodic Review report. The Uganda delegation committed to adopt a National Action Plan on human rights, establish a human…

September 29, 2010 News

Statement to the Human Rights Council on Cambodia

Oral statement on restriction of freedom of expression

Over the years, Human Rights Watch has documented a tightening of space for civil society, freedom of speech, and peaceful political opposition; that trend has accelerated in recent months. The decision four days ago, on September 24, to sentence in…

November 24, 2006 News

Human Rights Watch Statement at the Fifth Session of the Assembly of States Parties

On November 24, 2006, Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, addressed the ICC Assembly of States Parties during its general debate. We believe this session of the ASP has the potential to be an important…

May 11, 2005 News

Call for Action against the Use of Diplomatic Assurances in Transfers to Risk of Torture and Ill-Treatment

Governments in Europe and North America are increasingly sending alleged terrorism suspects and others to abusive states based on so-called “diplomatic assurances” of humane treatment that expose these individuals to serious risk of torture or cruel,…

March 30, 2005 News

Accounts from “The Less They Know, the Better: Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda”

At the teacher training, we were told not to show [pupils] how to use condoms and not to talk about them at our school. In the past, we used to show them to our upper primary classes. Now we can’t do that. —Primary school teacher in Kasese…

January 28, 2004 News

Torture and Non-Refoulement

Briefing to the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

In its annual resolution on torture, the Commission on Human Rights should reaffirm the absolute obligation of states not to return (“refouler”) a person to a country where he or she is at risk of being subjected to torture or other cruel or inhuman…

November 21, 2002 News

Testimonies from Hidden in Plain View: Refugees Living Without Protection in Nairobi and Kenya

Abuses in Nairobi, Kenya Abuses in Kampala, Uganda Abuses in Nairobi, Kenya Women Refugees Amina P., a girl who had fled the fighting in Somalia in 1994 when she was twelve years old, had been raped repeatedly in the refugee camps. She…

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