Uganda - Protecting Civil Society Helps Preserve Basic Freedoms

DIRITTI UMANI

(...) The government has increasingly come down harshly on NGOs over the last few years. Projects or programs that could highlight government failings are increasingly under surveillance,

at risk of obstruction, and in some cases, threatened with closure. Officials have warned that groups doing “political” work – in other words focused on good governance, land rights, the rights of LGBT people, or oil transparency – could face deregistration. Playing on paranoia of international interference, the government has gone so far as to say that groups that get any foreign funding are trying to subvert Ugandan sovereignty. (...)

The article:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/25/uganda-protecting-civil-society-helps-preserve-basic-freedoms

 

Appello per fermare la legge anti-gay:

http://www.avaaz.org/it/uganda_stop_gay_death_law/?bkHHFab&v=19431

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Non basta Kony - Sul neutro di Kampala, Cina batte USA 1-0:

http://geopoliticamente.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/cina-vs-stati-uniti-il-grande-gioco-dellenergia/

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Informazione di base:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda

Human rights in Uganda:
http://rapportoannuale.amnesty.it/sites/default/files/Uganda.pdf
http://www.hrw.org/africa/uganda

Passato...prossimo:
https://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2621:uganda-torture-extortion-killings-by-police-unit&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105