PRESS RELEASE -Seclusion case Judgment
PRESS RELEASE -Seclusion case Judgment
Ugandan Civil Society Condemns The Growing Trend of the Ministry of Health Disowning and Staying Urgently needed policies, guidelines and Standards on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
On the International Day of the Girl Child, a network of Ugandan Civil Society groups, health workers, young people, and other concerned citizens harshly criticize a decision by Ministry of Health executive leadership to halt the release of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Guidelines...
CEHURD - Press Release 7th June 2017
CEHURD calls on Uganda Police and Mulago Hospital to comply with Court as Decision on Missing Baby wins Judge an International Award.
CEHURD Official Press Statement IDM 2017
CEHURD Official Press Statement IDM 2017
Press Release: International Women's Day 2017
Today, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) and other Civil Society Organisations through the advocacy for better health program joined hands on the eve of the International Women’s day 2017 to emphasize the importance improving maternal health in empowering women in the chang...
Release Obiga Patrick from IHK jail today
Today the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) and Ms. Rose Obiga filed a case with Uganda’s High court in Kampala seeking for a court order for the release of Mr. Patrick Obiga who has been illegally imprisoned and detained at International Hospital Kampala (IHK)
in Namuwongo.
Civil Society Coalition Calls for Swift Access to Justice From Uganda’s Constitutional Court to Stop Crisis of Preventable Maternal Deaths in Uganda
Today a landmark case re-opened in Uganda's Constitutional Court, Petition 16 of 2011, filed on behalf of two women who died in childbirth, Sylvia Nalubowa and Jennifer Anguko, by the health rights organization Center for Health Human Rights and Development (CEHURD).
Protect health workers’ rights while on duty: IMC clinics in the spotlight
Protect health workers’ rights while on duty:
IMC clinics in the spotlight
Press Release: 30th October, 2015
Today the undersigned coalition of civil society groups hailed a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court on preventable maternal mortality as a decisive victory for access to justice and health rights for women in Uganda. The ruling struck down a judgment in 2012 by Constitutional Court that it had ...
Press Brief: High Court declared the right to health justiciable in Uganda
The High Court decision arose out of a case filed by the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), Mugerwa David and his children against Nakaseke District Local Administration following the preventable maternal death of Irene Nanteza in Nakaseke Hospital on the 5th of May, 2012. ...
High Court declares the right to health Justiciable in Uganda
The High Court of Uganda has today declared that the right to health can be justiciable in Uganda. While delivering a judgment in which The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) and others sued Nakaseke District Local Administration (Civil Suit No.111 of 2012), Justice Kabiito ...
Press Release on Seclussion- CEHURD
The Center for health has today the 27th March 2015.....
Constitutional amendement
Civil society Organisations (CSOs) working on the right to health in Uganda have today 5th December 2014 made submission to the Uganda Law reform Commission (ULRC) appealing to government to consider amending the constitution and include the right to the highest attainable standard of physical an...
Health Committees as vehicles for community participation: Release from a Regional Consultation 28th September 2014
The Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, in conjunction with the Network on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa (EQUINET) held a 2-day regional consultation on the Role of Health Committees in Equitable, People-centred Health Systems in the Southern and East African region just ...
Court to pronounce itself on human rights violation by communication company
Today July 4, 2014, the High court of Uganda will give its ruling in the miscellaneous application filed by the Center for Health Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) against C.C.C.C, NEMA and Mukono District Local Government for violation of rights to health and right to clean and healthy envir...
Press Statement of the Tobacco Control Forum on World No Tobacco Day 2014
Today Uganda joins the rest of the world in recognizing the devastating effects of Tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke on human lives. This year’s world no Tobacco Day (WNTD) is being commemorated at a time when the Tobacco Control Bill has been tabled before parliament for debate.
HIV Bill Should not Criminalize HIV Transmission
Kampala, Uganda – Civil Society Organizations working on the HIV Prevention and Control Bill of 2010 Today take a stand to ask parliamentarians to affirm and support the Health committee’s report on proposed deletion of Mandatory Testing for HIV, Mandatory Disclosure of HIV status from The HIV Bi...
Poorest Countries and Civil Society Secure Progress in Extending
(Washington, D.C. and Kampala, Uganda) AIDS and human rights activists
today applauded the coalition of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) who
stood together to win a partial victory at the World Trade
Organization that will help extend affordable access to health,
education, and climate techno...
Press Release
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working on issues of trade, intellectual property, access to medicines, food & Seed in Uganda have issued a letter to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Council Chair as well as Developed country Missions in Uganda to express their disapproval of the manne...
Activist calls for balance of rights in promoting IP
The World IP Day, is a very important one. It helps to create awareness within the community and at policy level on IP rights on the country’s social welfare. While IP affects daily lives, it is not a well appreciated subject in Uganda. The day is also very important for us to reflect on the achi...
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