Rule of Law

Politics & Policy

Uganda stagnates in bottom quarter of anti-corruption rankings

Uganda ranks in the bottom quarter of a global barometer of public sector corruption released Tuesday
An anti-corruption billboard in rural Zambia
Politics & Policy

US response to Uganda’s anti-gay law and persistent human rights violations

US government, at the direction of President Biden, published an account of all the actions it has taken in response to the Anti-Homosexuality Act and other human rights concerns
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosts an honour guard to welcome Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to the Pentagon for a meeting 27 September 2013
Politics & Policy

US sanctions prison chief over human rights abuses

Johnson Byabashaija heads an organisation that has tortured government critics and LGBTQI+ people
Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons. The US has imposed financial sanctions on Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons, in a review and expansion of its visa restriction policy targeting Ugandan officials it says are complicit in human rights abuses.
Politics & Policy

ULS rule of law report: tame, cowardly

The Uganda Law Society avoids confronting powerful institutions that undermine the rule of law, opting instead for easier targets
Politics & Policy

Another reason to reform the World Bank: its private sector arm funds projects that fuel violent conflict

Study of International Finance Corporation projects between 1994 and 2022 shows that they lead to a significant increase in armed conflict events one year later
International Finance Corporation (IFC) headquarters in Washington DC., 2013. IFC is part of the World Bank Group. © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank
Politics & Policy

Rule of Law: the same old story in Uganda and continuing erosion worldwide

Report highlights the continuing decline in rule of law around the world as governments loosen constraints on their power and weaken fundamental rights – and little change in Uganda
Sculpture of Lady Justice at Dublin Castle