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Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Recent Wave of Office Break-ins- Civil Society Organizations Demand Government Action.

This statement was originally issued on hrnj-uganda.org on May 23, 2016. Civil Society Organizations have called upon the Ugandan Government to conduct swift and transparent...
Uganda  Free Expression and The Law

HRNJ-Uganda’s National Coordinator, Robert Ssempala wins EU HRDS Award 2016.

 The National Coordinator of Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda), Robert Ssempala has won the European Union Human Rights Defenders Award for the year...
Somalia  Attacks

Somalia: “Utter Dismay” Over Continuous Violation of Trade Union Rights- NUSOJ

This statement was originally published on nusoj.org on May 16, 2016 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today expressed utter dismay and frustration by...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda Government Bans Media Coverage of Opposition Protest

This Alert was Issued by the HRNJ-Uganda on May 6. 2016. In a surprise twist of events, just two days after officiating as chief walker...
Uganda  Free Expression and The Law

Uganda: HRNJ-Uganda, Journalists win Prestigious Commonwealth Press Union Award

This article was originally posted on hrnjuganda.org on May 5, 2016. Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) on May 5, 2016 has been awarded the...
Somalia  Attacks

Somalia: UN Rights Experts Raise Alarm at Growing Persecution against Trade Unionists

GENEVA (4 May 2016) – A group of four United Nations human rights experts today urged the Government of Somalia to halt the continuous...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Premises of HRNJ Attacked by Assailants

This statement was issued by HRNJ-Uganda on April 14, 2016 On April 10, 2016, the premises of HRNJ-Uganda were broken into by unknown assailants. The...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Government minister punches female TV journalist, dragged to police

Originally issued by the hrnj-uganda on March 24, 2016 Member of Parliament for Katikamu North Constituency and currently a Minister without Portfolio  in the Ugandan...
Uganda  Access To Information

Uganda: Seven Journalists Attacked as Police and Army look on.

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on March 7, 2016. Rowdy supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters on March 04, 2016...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Female journalist covering opposition leader arrested by police

Remmy Bahati a journalist with NBS Television was arrested on March 1, 2016,  by the Uganda Police Force as she relayed live events that...
Uganda  Access To Information

Media clamp down as Police Arrest Six Journalists in Ugandan suburbs

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on February 29,  2016. Uganda Police has on Monday February 29, 2016, arrested a total of eight (8)...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Police arrests journalists covering meeting of opposition leaders

Six journalists were on Saturday February 27, 2016 arrested by Ugandan police, for attempting to cover the visit of opposition leader Amama Mbabazi to...
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