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HRCU WEEKLY UPDATE: ISSUE NO.15 OF 2021 April 26, 2021     THE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE UGANDA (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEY EMERGING ISSUES WITHIN THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS' WORKING ENVIRONMENT ISSUE NO.15 of 2021 |The Week of April 19- April 25, 2021 As we approach the World Press Freedom Day that is commemorated every year 3rd May, HRCU would like to remind us all to come together using our different platforms and commemorate this day. The theme of this year’s World Press Freedom Day Commemoration is: “ Information as a Public Good .” The theme serves as a call to renew the global commitment to freedom of expression, press freedom, and freedom of information, while acknowledging the new economic challenges faced by the media sector, the gatekeeping role of internet companies and their need for greater transparency, as well as the strong need for Media and Information Literacy capacities to be strengthened worldwide.  3 May acts as a reminder to governments

H RCU WEEKLY UPDATE: ISSUE NO.14 OF 2021 April 12, 2021 THE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE UGANDA (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEY EMERGING ISSUES WITHIN THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS' WORKING ENVIRONMENT ISSUE NO.14 of 2021 |The Week of April 12- April 18, 2021   THE COVID-19 SITUATION IN UGANDA Results of COVID-19 tests done on 17 April 2021 confirm 18 new cases. The cumulative confirmed cases are 41,396. Total vaccinated persons against COVID-19: 232,514. https://twitter.com/MinofHealthUG/status/1384096195207786502/photo/1        NUP LEADERS TAKE OATH TO DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS Elected leaders in the National Unity Platform-NUP party have taken an oath to defend their electorate against human rights violations and fight corruption that they claim fosters poor service delivery in the country. While closing their two-day retreat at the Jinja based Nile Resort Hotel on Saturday, the NUP leaders resolved to adopt the oath as a working document for all leaders throughout their

                                                                                                                                                                                        HRCU WEEKLY UPDATE: ISSUE NO.13 OF 2021 April 12, 2021   THE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE UGANDA (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEY EMERGING ISSUES WITHIN THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS' WORKING ENVIRONMENT ISSUE NO.13 of 2021 |The Week of April 5- April 11, 2021     The week came to climax with the signing of the oil pipeline agreement that will run from Hoima-Uganda to Tanga in Tanzania. The agreement is a milestone for Uganda, East Africa and Human Rights defenders in the country and to be specific those in the Albertine region. HRDs   should take keen interest in the agreements signed so that section by section, article by article are well studied so that issues relating to human rights within the agreement are picked, internalized as a mitigating factor to human rights violations and abu