Category : Human Rights

By Shira Natenda We didn’t see it coming, a novel virus that has put the world on its knees. For some months we thought we

By Evelyn Lirri  Simon Bukenya has become a household name among people living with HIV/Aids. He is the reason they can continue taking their Anti-retroviral

Lawyer Immaculate Owomugisha together with Sylvia Kyomuhangi at court in Gulu after the sentence was overturned. (Courtesy photo) BY FLAVIA NASSAKA For eight months, Mary

By Vicky Wandawa She had often shrugged them off. The nasty messages; often abusive and sometimes pornographic. However, the thick skin only held until one

BY VIVIAN AGABA It started out as a normal working day for photojournalist Alex Esagala. He had been assigned to cover a demonstration at Makerere

BY SHANINE AHIMBISIBWE Two women that I know died this week on the birthing table. One was a friend’s sister and the other a stranger

BY JOHN AGABA When Uganda’s Constitutional Court annulled the Anti Homosexuality Act 2014, many gay people —who had been living under fear and contemplating fleeing

BY FLAVIA NASSAKA Dr Kizza Besigye, the former president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party watched the events of October 22, as

BY GILLIAN NANTUME Wednesday October 23, 2019 was Stella Chepkemoi’s second last day on earth. Several days before her death, Chepkemoi, who was 34 weeks