About 430 Police Officers have today started sitting for the United Nations Assistance Mission serviced (AMS) interviews at Mandela National Stadium Namboole an exercise that will run for a week . “The interviews are prepared by the department of Peace Keeping Operation in New York in collaboration with the countries that requested .” said the […]
The first lady Janet Museveni yesterday launched the “National Campaign on Adolescent Girls” as Uganda marked the international day of the girl child in Mukono. The first lady Janet Museveni lauded the government in celebrating the day of the girl child and this campaign will mobilise Ugandan families to talk about the children they bear […]
Uganda National action for people with disabilities (UNADP) has partnered with the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) and organized a camp where people with cleft lip and or palate received free surgery. The camp, where 22 were people operated on and treated, took place at Kampala International University (KIU) Hospital in Ishaka, Bushenyi district. […]
Members of parliament have expressed concern on the United Nations report of experts accusing Uganda of arming the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Addressing journalists at parliament members who include Theodore Ssekikubo, Medard Ssegoona and Patrick Nsanja said that giving support to rebels would be disastrous to the country. They have urged […]
The UN is asking the Ugandan government and all the other East African Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization member countries to send police experts to South Sudan and help strengthen security in the young nation. The call was made by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Hilder Johnson while addressing regional police chiefs meeting […]
Uganda has beaten nine other African countries to send a representative on the UN committee of experts for rights of persons with disabilities. According to the state minister for Disability Affairs Sulaiman Madada, Uganda’s candidature garnered 66 votes out of the 117 states parties that voted and was declared a committee member effective 1st January 2013 […]
The workers at the United Nations (UN) base at Entebbe in East Africa have threatened to stage a sit down strike soon over what they term as ‘serious’ exploitation by their employees. The UN staff members attached to the cleaning department wants to protest UN’s recent decision to tender out the cleaning services at […]
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 […]
Due to local and international pressure, the government in Kampala has allocated Buganda riot suspects a judge to hear their case. The suspects were arrested in September 2009 and since that time they have not been tried. The development has come at a time when opposition parties mainly FDC and DP, Buganda kingdom and human […]
Due to local and international pressure, the government in Kampala has allocated Buganda riot suspects a judge to hear their case. The suspects were arrested in September 2009 and since that time they have not been tried. The development has come at a time when opposition parties mainly FDC and DP,Bugandakingdom and human rights organisations […]