What are Human Rights?
We are all alive, and since we are human, we have some rights known as human rights. These are not granted by any state and these universal rights are inherent to all. These rights range from the most fundamental rights such as the right to life, the right to food, education, work, health and liberty. These rights are needed simply because we exist as human beings.
Human Rights in Uganda
Human rights in Uganda relates to the difficulties in the achievement of international rights standards for all citizens residing in Uganda. These difficulties centre upon the provision of proper sanitation facilities, internal displacement, development of adequate infrastructure, as well as the mistreatment of the LGBT community, women, and children. Freedom House in their Freedom in the World 2020 report identified Uganda as a country considered to be “not free.” This classification of “not free” is because of both low political rights and civil liberties ranking.
Uganda has made significant advancement in eliminating the worst forms of child labor in 2013. However, underage children continue to engage in strenuous activities mostly in the agricultural sector and in commercial sexual exploitation. As in many African countries, government agencies continue to impinge on the LGBT rights in Uganda.In 2020, a number of dozens of people were killed by security forces like police and other security organs in the country in different parts in circumstances and context of electoral campaigns ahead of 2021 general elections. Since various rebel groups started fighting the government of President Yoweri Museveni, beginning in August 1986, about 2 million Ugandans have been displaced and tens of thousands have been killed.
WRITER: SHARANYA GAWDE
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