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FHRI addressing the Human Rights Committee of Uganda’s Parliament on the country’s human rights situation particularly torture in the last two years of 2020 and 2021.

Objective:

Pro-active engagement of state institutions to effect practice change.

FHRI and other actors uses her research reports as tools for lobbying for improvement and engagement between state institutions in their human rights practices. The gaps are identified by FHRI and stakeholders are pro-actively lobbied to effect practical change. These include, but are not limited to:

Parliament, parliamentary committees like the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Parliamentary Committee on Social Services, Defence and Internal Affairs, the Equal Opportunities Committee, the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources, Uganda Parliamentary Forum on food security, population, and development, the Electoral Commission, Uganda Human Rights Commission, the Justice Law and Order Sector institutions, political parties, the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC), the Citizens Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU), the media and Development partners. Follow-up of recommendations from previous reports is also a key component.