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HRAPF’s Press Statement on the commemoration of the International Human Rights day 2021
Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) joins the rest of the world to commemorate the International Human Rights Day. This year marks the 73rd year since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on 10th December 1948, and this is cause for celebration as this document continues to guide and inspire the protection of human rights globally. To read the entire statement, click the link below: HRAPF’s... -
Documentary on the Implications of Petty Offences in Uganda
Criminal laws, particularly those providing for petty offences such as vagrancy laws, have consistently been used to arrest, detain, evict, or exploit the labour of persons who are deemed unfit to occupy public spaces. The continued enforcement of these laws often shows no regard for the individual right to dignity, fair trial, and freedom of movement and hence provides a basis for gross violation of the human rights of poor... -
Botswana Court of Appeal decriminalises consensual same sex between same-sex partners
On 29th November 2021, The Botswana Court of Appeal through the Judge President Ian Kirby issues a monumental judgement to decriminalise consensual sex between same-sex partners. The unanimous decision found that the Penal Code provisions (Sections 164 (a) and (c) ) violated the right to privacy (section 9 of the Constitution), the right to liberty, security of person and equal protection under the law (Section 3 of the Constitution)... -
69th Ordinary Session of African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
HRAPF’s statement on the Human Rights situation for criminalised minorities in Uganda at the 69th Ordinary session of African Commission on Human and People’s Rights HRAPF presented a statement to the 69th Ordinary session of The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights on the Human Rights situation form criminalised minorities in Uganda Read the full statement here
