Press Statement on the Alleged Sexual Abuse of a 14-Year-Old Girl by a Step Father
Uganda continues to wrestle with alarmingly high rates of sexual abuse, particularly against young girls. Recent statistics indicate a sharp rise in reported cases, with countless more going unreported due to fear, stigma, and lack of access to justice. The case of a 14-year-old girl allegedly ab...
Landmark Anti-HIV Stigma and Discrimination Case Advances In Uganda’s Equal Opportunities Commission
Here is the Judgement on HIV/AIDS Stigma in the case of CEHURD V PASTOR SSEMPA - HIV STIGMA CASE from the Equal Opportunities Commission Tribunal vide...
PRESS STATEMENT: CSOs Call for an End to the Persistent Stockouts of Essential Medicines and Health Supplies (EMHS)
The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) with partners Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development (HEPS-Uganda), The Uganda Medical Association (UMA), Action Group for Health, Human Rights, and HIV/AIDS (AGHA), Family salvation, held a CSOs Press conference to highl...
STATEMENT; Women's Health Matters Campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, June 10th, 2022
In commemoration of the International Day of Action for Women's Health
KAMPALA. Today the Civil Society Organizations in Uganda led by CEHURD join the world to commemorate the International Day of Action for ...
CSMMUA Public Statement on Roe V. Wade Ruling
While US Supreme Court Ruling Infringes on Women's Rights and Freedoms, Uganda's Drive to Increase Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Will Not Be BrokenThe Coalition to Stop Maternal Mortality Due to Unsafe Abortion in Uganda (CSMMUA) passionately believes that no...
Press Statement: Medical Interns Issue Notice to Sue Over Ministry of Health Directive
Kampala – Uganda. Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) on behalf of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) and the Federation for Uganda Medical lnterns (FUMI), has issued a notice of the intention to ...
Press Statement: Judiciary Endorses the Need for a Sexuality Education Policy in Uganda
Kampala – Uganda. Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) with joy welcomes the long-awaited ruling from the High Court of Uganda at Kampala in the case of CEHURD vs. Attorney General & Family Life Network [Miscellaneous Cause No. 309 of 2016]. The H...
Government Must Prioritise Safety of Health Workers to Protect Patients During Covid-19 and Beyond
PRESS STATEMENT
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Kampala-Uganda. Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) and partners join the world to mark World Patient Safety Day. At a time when the healthcare system is receiving more pat...
PRESS STATEMENT: Civil Society Raise Concern Over Access To Oxygen During The Second Wave Of The COVID-19 Pandemic In Uganda
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
WEDNESDAY, 16TH JUNE 2021
Kampala – Uganda. Today, the undersigned civil society organisations have convened the press to express concerns over access to Oxygen therapy in the country.
Government Defies Court Order To Increase Funding To Maternal Health In The National Budget
PRESS STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday 27th April 2021
GOVERNMENT DEFIES COURT ORDER TO INCREASE FUNDING TO MATERNAL HEALTH IN THE NATIONAL BUDGET
Kampala – Uganda. ...
Teenage Pregnancies: We Are Not Doing Enough To Keep Girls In Schools
PRESS STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Friday 26th March 2021
Kampala, Uganda. Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) recognises the government’s efforts to ensure that pregnant girls ...
PRESS STATEMENT: MULAGO HOSPITAL HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE LOSS AND DISAPPEARANCE OF BABIES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday 22nd March 2021
MULAGO HOSPITAL HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE LOSS AND DISAPPEARANCE OF BABIES
Kampala – Uganda. Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) will today fi...
PRESS STATEMENT; THE ETHICS CASE
28th November, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Infants put in Harm’s way in a bid to prove a scientific belief!
Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) and Partners have today filed a case in the High Court of Uganda chal...
Judicial Endorsement Of Maternal Health Rights In Uganda
PRESS STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
WEDNESDAY 19TH AUGUST 2020
JUDICIAL ENDORSEMENT OF MATERNAL HEALTH RIGHTS IN UGANDA
Kampala – Uganda. Today, Center for Health, Human Rights an...
Press Release: Petition 16 Landmark Hearing on Maternal Deaths Proceeds in Uganda’s Constitutional Court
(KAMPALA) Today a civil society coalition of more than 40 health rights organizations welcomed the start of Constitutional Court’s hearing of Petition 16 of 2011. This health rights case, filed on March 4, 2011 by the Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development (CE...
Press Statement: Mulago must be for people NOT for profit!
Maternal Health Rights Are Not for Sale
Government of Uganda: Mulago Must be for People, not for Profit
(Kampala, Uganda) Maternal health right activists today have confronted Uganda’s extremely poor record on delivering essential maternal health care services by filing an application in Ugan...
Press Statement: Challenging the Venereal Diseases Act Cap 284
Kampala-Uganda, CEHURD is a not for profit, research and advocacy organization pioneering the justiciability of the right to health in Uganda. For long Uganda has maintained on its statute books obsolete laws which are not acceptable in a free and democratic society. One of such laws is the Vener...
Sexual and Gender Based Violence Press Release 20 August 2018
Men charged with rape are liable to suffer a maximum penalty of death whereas the law provides for the offense of ‘defilement’ for persons between the ages of 14-17 and sexual offenders against girls of that category are only given a few years of a jail term. This difference in penalties towards ...