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THE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE UGANDA (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEY EMERGING ISSUES WITHIN THE WORKING ENVIROMENT OF HRDS IN UGANDA THE WEEK OF TO 22 nd to 28 th NOVEMBER, 2021 As we end the month of November, we would like to thank you for the work well done in promoting and protecting human rights from all angles, at all levels.   As you may have noted, last week had a running   story of the   outbreak of a   new Omicron COVID-19 Variant in south Africa that forced several countries like Israel to close their boarders  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59448547 and others like the United States to impose travel bans on passengers from Southern Africa. Below are some of the highlights. We request that you please click on the links as provided in case you wish to read more details. COVID19 UPDATES Results of COVID-19 tests done on 27 November 2021 confirm 34 new cases. The cumulative confirmed cases are now 127,485 . The breakdow...

  THE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE UGANDA (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEY EMERGING ISSUES WITHIN THE WORKING ENVIROMENT OF HRDS IN UGANDA WEEK OF THE 15 TH TO 21 ST NOVEMBER 2021 Welcome to the fourth week of November 2021! We are grateful that you have walked the year’s journey with us and as we look forward to the last month next week, we are here to assure you that your work of human rights defending is not in vain. You have a reward, already. In that past week, Uganda   experienced a hard situation and occurrence on Tuesday 16 th November 2021 at around 10:00 am when two bombs exploded in the capital Kampala   that claimed lives of six people and injured33 https://observer.ug/news/headlines/71871-6-killed-33-others-injured-in-kampala-twin-bombings The authorities such as Uganda Police Force have since shared information with the Public to the effect that the situation was under control and that in case of any information and reporting of suspicious e...

THE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE UGANDA (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEY EMERGING ISSUES WITHIN THE WORKING ENVIROMENT OF HRDS IN UGANDA THE WEEK OF 8 TH  TO 14 TH  NOVEMBER 2021 We get into the middle of the month of November! Well done in all. Last week ended with some key updates that HRCU wishes to share with you. For instance, we learnt of the passing of the Head teacher of Kings College Budo, Patrick Bakka Male  https://www.independent.co.ug/kings-college-budo-headteacher-patrick-bakka-has-died/   who was a key HRD working on promoting the right to education, the President’s open warning to Members of Parliament intending to investigate Dr. Musenero the Science and Technology Minister on allegations of   corruption and embezzlement of Shs. 31billion Covid-19 funds https://observer.ug/news/headlines/71827-covid-funds-museveni-warns-mps-to-back-off-dr-musenero ; 39 passengers ho survived the deadly bus fire in Mpigi https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/...