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From: "Aniap Godfrey" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: Uganda faces UN Suspension


> Uganda Faces UN Suspension
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> The Monitor (Kampala)
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> January 13, 2004
> Posted to the web January 13, 2004
>
> Jennifer Nakalema
> Entebbe
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> The United Nations Committee Against Torture has given government up to
May to submit its report on torture and human rights.
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> Uganda faces suspension from the UN Convention Against Torture if it fails
to comply.
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> This was revealed yesterday by the Danish Ambassador Stig Barlyng at a
seminar on 'State Party Reporting by Uganda to the UN Committee Against
Torture' (CAT) at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Entebbe.
>
> "Of 38 countries whose initial reports to the United Nation's CAT are
overdue, Uganda is unfortunately topping the list and its initial report was
due on June 25, 1988," he said.
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> Barlyng said the process of writing the report and gathering relevant
information increases awareness of the country's obligations to prevent
torture and rehabilitate victims of torture.
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> The diplomat said this would pave the way for strict national legislation
criminalising the use of torture.
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> Relevant Links
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> East Africa
> Uganda
> Human Rights
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> While opening the seminar, the Minister of State for International
Affairs, Mr Tom Butime, attributed Uganda's delay to submit its report to
poverty.
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> The convention was ratified in 1986 and Uganda became a signatory in 1988.
The seminar was sponsored by Danida and attended by officials from the
prisons, police, Uganda Human Rights Commission and the military.
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