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  THE HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE UGANDA (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN UGANDA AMIDST PREVALENCE OF COVID-19 ISSUE NO.8 OF 2021 | THE WEEK OF MARCH 1 ST – 7 TH MARCH, 2021 INTRODUCTION Welcome to the second week of March, 2021. Today March 8, 2021, Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate and celebrate International Women’s Day under the theme “Choose to Challenge” that reminds women to be responsible for their thoughts and actions every day and challenge gender bias and inequality in the world. In Uganda and other parts of the world, the adopted theme was “Women in Leadership: Achieving and Equal Future in a COVID-19 World.” HRCU’s Executive Director, Board and staff share warm thoughts and wish all women in Uganda and around the world a joyous commemoration. Special thanks to women human rights defenders (WHRDs) who have championed the fight for human rights promotion and protection especially for the vulnerable populat...

                                                    The Human Rights Centre Uganda (HRCU) WEEKLY UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND KEY EMERGING ISSUES WITHIN THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS’ WORKING ENVIRONMENT ISSUE NO.7/2021 | THE WEEK OF 22 ND – 28 TH FEBRUARY, 2021 INTRODUCTION Dear Reader, Welcome to the month of March, 2021! We thank God for this far He has brought us. With so much happening in the operating context of human rights defenders in Uganda and world over, HRCU continues to document some of the human rights and key emerging issues that it believes are worth sharing with you. As much as possible, we believe that there is light at the end of each dark tunnel and that all challenges, including human rights challenges have solutions which can only be reached at...