BY ISAIAH NGABIRANO Insecurity has become the talk of the town in Uganda that not a day passes without hearing a kidnap or a killing knowing that the people who are committing these atrocities walk free on the streets and are possibly planning to commit more of the same crimes. The main question remains, are […]
Category Archives: Human Rights
Does getting a passport in Uganda have to be a nightmare?
Processing my passport has been on every “To-Do” list I have made for the last 7 months. I kept putting it off, largely because it wasn’t urgent and from what I’d heard, the process was quite cumbersome. I eventually picked the application forms from Internal Affairs and soon, I realized why a large number of […]
From Teacher to Frustrated Beggar
My Mother’s Journey to Secure Pension Payment in Uganda
The Politics of Oil by Oil firms and government on influencing Climate change Policies
On August 3, 2016, The Daily Monitor reported that the Petroleum Directorate from the Ministry of Energy hailed the coming of four new international oil firms into the Ugandan oil world. These included “Australia’s Armour Energy Limited, WalterSmithPetroman Oil Limited, Oranto Petroleum International Ltd and Niger Delta Petroleum Resources Ltd from Nigeria.” These firms were […]
What the heck is Empowerment?
It was one of those mundane conferences I have become accustomed to attending; the speakers raved on about the importance of empowerment and because I have heard the talking points so many times, I was hoping for something new, a new angle to present to the news audience, otherwise I foresaw my story going along […]
Frontline Men for Women
Eerste River, Cape Town, South Africa – Valencia Farmer, a 14-year-old girl is gang raped by four men before she is stabbed fifty-three times; her throat slit and she is left for dead. The young girl is unable to grow into an adult because four rapists have snuffed out her opportunity to grow old. More […]
Uganda: Sound bites will not end practice of torture in detention
Gory images from Uganda’s torture chambers have gripped the nation. Many are still struggling to fathom why cold-blooded torturers would descend on human beings and unleash such untold horror on them. In response, President Museveni penned a tepid open missive advising police and other law enforcement agencies to cease the use of torture. It has […]
Social Media: Uganda’s chance at an Indigenous Civil Society
A simple definition of ‘Civil Society’ is enabled by truncating the term into two words Civil and Society. When we say something is Civil, we mean that it is non-Military or non-Government, we mean that it relates to ordinary citizens. A Society is a group of people linked by common interests and activities. When we say […]
My Day Job
I am used now. I have been at it for years and I’m still counting, the way I count the number of lashes as I rain a hurricane of them on my patients’ buttocks, on their legs, arms, ankles, at their back. I love it at their back because they can’t shield their backs. They […]
Thoughts of an Alira Primary School Teacher
“How are we to buy sanitary pads from UPE Money?”