Uganda
Uganda Impunity
Statement by HRNJ-Uganda on the International Day to End Crimes of Impunity against Journalists
The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists is a significant occasion that underscores the importance of press freedom, the safety of...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Journalists assaulted and arrested for covering opposition politician Bobi Wine
More than a dozen journalists were arrested with several of them assaulted and their equipment confiscated by Ugandan security personnel during the coverage of...
Uganda Digital Rights
Technology and Health Data Governance in Africa: The Case of Uganda
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the potential of technology to enhance health outcomes. The WHO’s Global strategy on digital health 2020-2025 aims...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Transport manager assaults journalist
A journalist Gerald Niyirinda working for Voice of Muhabura Radio based in Kisoro district, in Western Uganda has been allegedly assaulted by the Gateway...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
HRNJ condemns attacks on journalists covering local council elections
We highly condemn the brutal actions that were meted out against journalists who covered the by-elections of the Bukedea District Local Council (LC5) and...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Uncertain future for the media in Uganda
The state of press freedom in Uganda keeps deteriorating with each passing day.
Uganda is currently ranked number 132 out of 180 countries under the...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Court dismisses frivolous case against journalists
Kampala, 17th/January/2023; Court at Makindye dismissed a case against two Digitalk Online TV staff Norman Tumuhimbise (Executive Director) and Faridah Bikobere –a TV host...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Court dismisses frivolous case against journalists
Kampala, 17th/January/2023; Court at Makindye dismissed a case against two Digitalk Online TV staff Norman Tumuhimbise (Executive Director) and Faridah Bikobere –a TV host...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Uganda: Two Journalists Remanded Over Murder
Court in Jinja, Uganda on July 6, 2022, remanded two journalists to wit Mutyaba Ivan of Busoga One and Isabirye Denis Baba FM to...
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Press Freedom Situation in Africa- April- June 2021
Journalists killed, respectively in DRC, Somalia and Nigeria, Burkina Faso, including a social media activist in Ghana during the period of April-June 2021. This...
Uganda Digital Rights
Uganda Abandons Social Media Tax But Slaps New Levy on Internet Data
By Daniel Mwesigwa |
Uganda has ditched the Over-The-Top (OTT) tax that it introduced three years ago on the use of social media services after...
Uganda
Reflecting on the State of Access to Information in Uganda and COVID-19
Since its inception, the right to information, even during crises, has always implicitly existed under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...