The United Nations special rapoteur on Human Rights Margret Sekaggya says she is going to advice the United Nations to send special rapoteurs to visit Uganda and observe press freedom in the country.
Margaret Sekaggya
Sekaggya made the call during celebrations at the centenary park in Kampala to mark world press freedom day scheduled for Tuesday May 3rd 2010.
Sekaggya has appealed to journalists to put pressure on the government to make sure the observers are invited to assess the press freedom degree in Uganda.
She says the media and journalists in Uganda are facing several challenges especially when covering human rights abuses by government security agencies.
Uganda journalists will on Tuesday join the rest of the world to mark the World Press Freedom Day, which is globally being marked under the theme “21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers”
By Mugisa Isaac Mathias