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The Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC), a semi-autonomous department under the School of Law was set up by Makerere University in 1993, as the first human rights centre of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although several human rights-related subjects were already being taught at the Faculty of Law, HURIPEC was established solely to foster on teaching, research and activism on human rights and peace issues at the University.
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Call for LLD Scholarship under the (Re)Reconstituting Uganda Project
The Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC), School of Law,...
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LLD Scholarship in Climate Policies and Law within a DANIDA Funded Project on Charcoal Conflicts in Uganda and Tanzania
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Report: Open Tap: Institutional Oversight in Crisis – the Management of Uganda’s COVID 19 Funds
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TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF COVID - 19 RESOURCES IN UGANDA (TACOR)
The Human Rights and Peace Center, (HURIPEC) of the School of Law, Makerere University, under a research initiative ‘Transparency and Accountability of COVID Resources (TACOR)’, is exploring how resources including money mobilized for the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic has been utilized and what lessons can be drawn to address any future emerging crises like the resurging Ebola and landslides that the country continues to grapple with.
As part of data collection, HURIPEC has held a launch of the TACOR project, 2 Budget Review Platform meetings, and 4 regional meetings in Gulu, Soroti, Mbarara and Masaka to assess how COVID – 19 funds were applied.
Our recent publications on TACOR
Report: Open Tap: Institutional Oversight in Crisis – the Management of Uganda’s COVID 19 Funds
The Human Rights and Peace Center (HURIPEC) has launched the Transparency and Accountability of COVID – 19 Resources – (TACOR) report. The launch was officiated by the Deputy Speaker of Parliament. The launch took place at Imperial Royale Hotel. A digital copy of the report is available via this link.
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The Unresolved COVID – 19 Issues
“We have never been in a better position to end COVID-19 as a global health emergency…The number of weekly reported deaths is near the lowest since the pandemic began; And two-thirds of the world’s population is vaccinated, including 75% of health workers and older people,” World Health Organization Director-General, Dr...
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