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| Title: | Recommendations by the Uganda Commission of Inquiry into the Violation of Human Rights |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights (ISSN 1021-8858) |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 140-170 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Uganda East Africa |
| Subjects: | human rights offences against human rights Law, Human Rights and Violence law Uganda Human Rights Commission constitutional law Penal sanctions Legal protection Justice, Administration of |
| Abstract: | The Uganda Commission of Inquiry into the violation of human rights discovered that many reasons underlie Uganda's violent and bloody postindependence history. Accordingly, the Commission made recommendations to prevent the repetition or continuation of a similar history. The Commission concluded that it is impossible to prescribe a permanent solution for preventing abuses of human rights in Uganda. The recommendations made in its report are therefore to be taken as a contribution towards eradication of the problems identified. The major recommendations are set out in the present article. They refer to the commitment by and duty of all people to observe, respect and promote human rights; law enforcement agents and State security agents; arbitrary arrests, detention and imprisonment; the right to fair trial by independent and impartial courts of law; murders and arbitrary deprivation of life; subjection of persons to discriminatory treatment; mass expulsion and displacement of persons; subjection of persons to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment; long-running ethnic conflicts; and violations of the past. Notes. |