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Uganda continues to experience difficulty in advancing respect for human rights. The country retains the death penalty as a punishment in law. Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ...
Conflict in the North The conflict in the north of the country between the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has decimated the economy, retarded the development of affected areas and led to numerous gross human rights violations. An estimated 20,000 children have been kidnapped by the LRA for use as child soldiers since 1987. In the bloodiest incident in the history of the conflict, more than 330 civilians were killed by the LRA in Barlonyo internally displaced person's camp in February 2004. The Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF), previously the National Resistance Army, constitutes the armed forces of Uganda. ...
Labuje IDP camp near Kitgum Town The Lords Resistance Army (LRA), formed in 1987, is a rebel paramilitary group operating mainly in northern Uganda. ...
The military use of children refers to children being placed in harms way in military actions, the desire being to protect a location or provide propaganda. ...
Tailor in Labuje IDP camp in Uganda An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who has been forced to leave their home for reasons such as natural or man-made disasters, including religious or political persecution or war, but has not crossed an international border. ...
Abuses by Ugandan security forces Ugandan security agencies have been implicated in torture and illegal detention of suspects, including suspected LRA rebels and their sympathisers. Methods of torture include suspending suspects tied 'kandoya' (tying hands and feet behind the victim) from the ceiling, severe beating and kicking, and attaching electric wires to the male genitals. The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg was a famous torture device, though misconceptions about it do exist. ...
- On 14 June [2003] [Violent Crime Crack Unit] officers arrested Nsangi Murisidi, aged 29, on suspicion that he had facilitated friends to commit robbery and for alleged possession of a gun. Relatives tried in vain to visit him in detention. On 18 June the lawyer representing the family received confirmation of his death in custody while at the VCCU headquarters at Kireka, a suburb of Kampala. The death certificate established the cause of death as extensive loss of fluid and blood, severe bleeding in the brain and extensive deep burns on the buttocks. The body also bore 14 deep wounds. In October the Minister of Internal Affairs informed AI that an inquiry had been ordered, but no progress was subsequently reported. Source: Amnesty International Annual Report 2004
Government agencies accused of torture include the UPDF's Chieftancy of Military Intelligence (CMI), the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), the Violent Crime Crack Unit (VCCU) and ad hoc agencies such as the Joint Anti-Terrorist Task Force (JATF.) In October the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) found that torture continued to be a widespread practice amongst security organizations in Uganda. The Internal Security Organisation is a security agency of the government of Uganda. ...
The Violent Crime Crack Unit (VCCU) is a security agency of the government of Uganda. ...
The Joint Anti-Terrorist Task Force (JATF) is a security agency of the government of Uganda. ...
The Uganda Human Rights Commission serves to monitor and advance human rights in Uganda. ...
Political freedom In April 2005, two opposition Member of Pariament were arrested on what are believed to be politically motivated charges.[1] Ronald Reagan Okumu and Michael Nyeko Ocula are from the Forum for Democratic Change, the movement believed to pose the greatest threat to the reelection of President Museveni in 2006. The Forum for Democratic Change is a political party in Uganda. ...
In the 1990s, Museveni was fêted by the west as part of a new generation of African leaders. ...
Freedom of the press Government agencies continues to impinge on the freedom of the press in Uganda. Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public speech for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ...
In late 2002, the independent Monitor newspaper was temporarily closed by the army and police. Journalists from the paper continued to come under attack in 2004, two of whom were publicly denounced as "rebel collaborators" by a spokesman for the UPDF. The Monitor and Sunday Monitor are national newspapers in Uganda. ...
In February 2004, the Supreme Court ruled the offence of "publication of false news" to be void and unconstitutional.[2]
Uganda's press is rated as 'partly free' by Freedom House, an independent monitor of press freedom worldwide. In the Press Freedom Survey 2005, Uganda is rated as the 13th most free press of 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.[3] Freedom House is a partly government-funded American pressure group in the Wilsonian tradition, which advocates the global spread of democracy, and sees it as the historical task of the United States to further this goal. ...
A satellite composite image of Africa showing the ecological break between North and Sub-Saharan regions Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa south of the Sahara Desert, is the term used to describe those countries of Africa that are not part of North Africa. ...
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