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🇺🇳🇺🇬 UN human rights office shuts in Uganda
After 18 years of operating in Kampala, the UN's human rights mission will close on Saturday because the Ugandan government has ended its mandate.
Sub-offices in Gulu and Moroto, in northern Uganda, have already closed.
It comes after Uganda passed anti-LGBT laws against the advice of local and international rights groups, including the UN.
In a statement on Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern about the run-up to elections in 2026, saying human rights defenders, civil society actors and journalists in Uganda were operating in an increasingly hostile environment.
He also was urging the government to ensure Uganda's national human rights body can function effectively and independently, as the main body tasked with human rights oversight in the country.
#UN #Uganda
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After 18 years of operating in Kampala, the UN's human rights mission will close on Saturday because the Ugandan government has ended its mandate.
Sub-offices in Gulu and Moroto, in northern Uganda, have already closed.
It comes after Uganda passed anti-LGBT laws against the advice of local and international rights groups, including the UN.
In a statement on Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern about the run-up to elections in 2026, saying human rights defenders, civil society actors and journalists in Uganda were operating in an increasingly hostile environment.
He also was urging the government to ensure Uganda's national human rights body can function effectively and independently, as the main body tasked with human rights oversight in the country.
#UN #Uganda
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🇺🇬 Uganda bans imports of used clothing from "dead people"
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has banned the importation of used clothing into Uganda, saying it stifles the development of local textile industries and that the clothes belonged to dead Westerners.
Like most African countries, Uganda has traditionally imported large quantities of used clothing, which some consumers prefer because it is low-cost.
But local manufacturers complain the dumping of second-hand apparel swamps the market, undermining Uganda's ability to climb the value chain of the cotton and textile industry.
"They are for dead people. When a White person dies, they gather their clothes and send them to Africa," Museveni said on Friday.
Museveni said the ban would also extend to electricity meters and electric cables, saying they should be bought from factories in Uganda.
#Uganda
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has banned the importation of used clothing into Uganda, saying it stifles the development of local textile industries and that the clothes belonged to dead Westerners.
Like most African countries, Uganda has traditionally imported large quantities of used clothing, which some consumers prefer because it is low-cost.
But local manufacturers complain the dumping of second-hand apparel swamps the market, undermining Uganda's ability to climb the value chain of the cotton and textile industry.
"They are for dead people. When a White person dies, they gather their clothes and send them to Africa," Museveni said on Friday.
Museveni said the ban would also extend to electricity meters and electric cables, saying they should be bought from factories in Uganda.
#Uganda
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