“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept, there can be no end save victory.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Overall objective:
To undertake research, monitoring, documentation and lobbying of human rights practices in order to influence policy and practice change through evidence-based human rights advocacy.
Over twenty-nine years ago, FHRI embarked on a continual process to advocate for an end to human rights abuses in Uganda. In 1998, FHRI began its Human Rights Research, Monitoring and Documentation Project. The project, which has evolved into a Research and Advocacy Division aims to enhance the flow of credible information and strengthen the knowledge base on human rights practices and violations. This is rounded off with advocacy and lobbying for observance of critical human rights issues as well as demanding for accountability for public undertakings.
The Research and Advocacy division collaborates closely with all other programme actions of FHRI in collecting, storing, analysing, and sharing information on human rights practices and violations, and contributes expertise to advocacy activities within the other programme areas.