CSOs

CSOs ask Government to facilitate child right law

CSOs ask Government to facilitate child right law

As Uganda joins the rest of African countries to commemorate the day of African child tomorrow 16th, Civil society organizations advocating for children‘s rights have asked Government to facilitate the implementation of the just amended child right law as way to promote the rights of children in the country. Addressing the media at Bravod hotel in Masaka, the child […]

CSOs call for transparency in taxation

CSOs call for transparency in taxation

Civil Society Organizations have asked Uganda Revenue Authority to exercise total transparency and equity when taxing them. Speaking at a dialogue between URA and Civil Society, the executive director Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda Cissy Kagaba said URA is being used to restrain organizations that are critical of government. She said that some of the taxes levied on these […]

CSO petition for salary cuts for all MPs dodging parliamentary sittings

CSO petition for salary cuts for all MPs dodging parliamentary sittings

Civil society organizations under the Anti corruption coalition Uganda have petitioned the parliamentary commission headed by speaker Kadaga calling it to cut the salaries of all those MPs who dodge parliamentary sittings. In a petition they handed over to one of the parliamentary commissioners also Bukedea women MP Rose Akol by executive director of the […]

Apply for UN.GIFT Small Grants

UN.GIFT Small Grants: UN.GIFT has established a Small Grants Facility with the overall objective to increase and improve support structures for victims of human trafficking around the world. Through a Call for Proposals, relevant organizations will be identified and the most promising projects will be selected. Civil society organizations will receive grants either to sustain […]

Uganda civil society appeal against public order management bill

Civil society organizations have asked parliament to clean the proposed public order management bill which was tabled before parliament because in its present form is intended to violate people’s rights. The civil society organizations made the demand a head of parliament public hearing on the public order management by the legal and parliamentary affairs committee […]