by Daniella Khanani In 2018, a six-year-old girl’s limb was amputated as a result of a medical error. The medical personnel injected the wrong drug in the child’s arm, causing complications. The amputation had to happen in order...
By | Moses Mulumba - Executive Director Center for Health Human Rights and Development. On August 19, 2020, the Constitutional Court of Uganda passed a landmark judgment in which it pronounced that the Government of Uganda’s...
PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEDNESDAY 19TH AUGUST 2020 JUDICIAL ENDORSEMENT OF MATERNAL HEALTH RIGHTS IN UGANDA Kampala – Uganda. Today, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), Prof. Ben Twino...
We are pleased to announce that the problem for the 7th Annual CEHURD moot court competition 2020 is out! Good luck to the participants. CEHURD-Moot-problem-2020-1Download...
The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) convenes the Annual National Inter-University Constitutional Law Moot Court Competitions. Since 2014, the moot court competition has seen more than ten (10) law schools in Ug...
Rose (not real name), a 15-year -old girl of school going age, is now eightmonths pregnant and about to deliver after being allegedly defiled by apaternal uncle. Being an orphan with no immediate family to turn to, shestruggles daily t...
By Faith Nabunya “My wife was left unattended in the postnatal ward for close to five hours until I paid Shs205,000 to have blood brought to Kibuli Musilm Hospital for her diffusion. Without any medical records, they told me to ta...
By Jacqueline Twemanye On 24th June 2020, CEHURD received a letter from Mayuge Central Police Station - Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) desk, appreciating CEHURD for the support rendered to them in handling SGBV cases. This to u...