Human Rights Network Uganda

Overview

Function

Vision, mission and objectives

• Promote and protect human rights as provided for in the regional and international instruments that Uganda is party to and as provided in the constitution of Uganda;
• Encourage close collaboration and networking among human rights organizations in Uganda;
• Encourage optimum sharing of information and resources both human and material among human rights organizations in Uganda;
• Continually assess a collective impact in the Ugandan society occasioned by several programs of human rights organizations in Uganda;
• Build the professional capacity of human rights organizations through training, research and technical skills acquisition;
• Adopt strategies necessary for an effective and coordinated human rights advocacy in the country;
• Develop policy guidelines for the effective, proper, transparent and accountable conduct of human rights organizations in Uganda; and
• Provide a frame work for regional collaboration and exchange- for the sharing of experiences and strategies and the analysis of specific needed advocacy skills thus making human rights organizations more effective in the ongoing human rights education and information.

  Key program areas

1. Advocacy, Research and Information Exchange Program: Under this program area, HURINET aims to facilitate collective advocacy and action of human rights defenders and pro-democracy activists in influencing and shaping the human rights agenda in Uganda.
2. Capacity Building and Network Development Program: Under this program area, HURINET aims to grow and strengthen a fellowship of human rights defenders in Uganda that are well grounded in the norms and best practices in human rights protection and promotion, rule of law and good governance and ensure integration in the regional and international human rights movement.
3. International Criminal & Transitional Justice Program: Under this program area, the human rights body aims to engage the state and other supranational bodies on the ratification, domestication, and implementation of international treaties and other instruments especially those relating to promoting accountability and ending impunity after conflict.
4. Human Rights Fund Program: The Fund was established in 2001 by Human Rights Network-Uganda in collaboration with the Swedish International Development Agency and the Royal Netherlands Embassy as an initiative to support the promotion and defense of human rights in Uganda. It is a re-granting initiative that enhances the work and capacity of CSOs and groups involved in the promotion of human rights in Uganda through providing them with financial and skills support. Member CSOs of the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders-Uganda have benefited greatly from this program.
5. Monitoring, Documentation and Reporting Under Regional & International Mechanisms : Under this program area, HURINET aims to equip civil society organizations in Uganda with skills on how to hold the state accountable to international instruments Uganda has ratified.
6. Institutional Strengthening and Development: This area of focus involves: strengthening the operational and policy base of HURINET with the view of enhancing effectiveness; and enhancing mutuality of understanding between HURINET and her relevant publics - as well as projecting her image as the leading human rights network in Uganda.

   Membership

1. Karambi Action for Life Improvement
2. Democracy and Human Rights Link Africa
3. Disabled Women's Network & Resources Organization in Uganda
4. Hope After Rape
5. National Association of Women's Organization in Uganda
6. Uganda Association of Women Lawyers
7. Center for Domestic Violence Prevention
8. The Baha'i Faith
9. Action for Development
10. Women and Rural Development Network

1. Defence for Children International
2. African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect
3. Huys Link Community Initiative
4. Uganda Children's Centre
5. World Vision Uganda
6. Youth Aid Uganda
7. Concern for the Girl Child
8. Rural Action Community Based Organization
9. Joy for Children- Uganda
10. Avocats Sans Frontières

1. Muslim Centre for Justice and Law
2. Human Rights Centre Uganda
3. African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims
4. Foundation for Human Rights Initiative
5. Human Rights Focus-Gulu
6. Uganda Joint Christian Council
7. Legal Aid Project
8. Human Rights Concern
9. Kumi Human Rights Initiative
10. Rule of Law Association
11. Public Defender Association of Uganda
12. Constitutionalism, Reconciliation, Human Rights and Development Organization
13. National Foundation for Democracy and Human Rights in Uganda
14. Mubende Human Rights

1. New Eden Christian Foundation
2. Community Development Resource Network
3. Development Foundation for Rural Areas
4. Platform for Labour Action
5. Uganda National Health Users Consumers' Organization
6. Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
7. Sudan Human Rights Association
8. Rural Initiative for community Empowerment
9. Human Right Awareness and Promotion Forum
10. Voluntary Action for Development
11. Coalition of Uganda Private School Teachers' Association
12. Action for Community Development in Uganda
13. Peace & Conflict Resolution
14. Center for Conflict Resolution
15. Jamii ya Kupatanisha
16. Life Concern
17. Isis-Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange
18. Education Access Africa
19. Rwenzori Peace Bridge of Reconciliation
20. Good Hope Foundation for Rural Development