Rights activists in Uganda are decrying the continued marginalization among citizens despite government signing global protocols geared at improving the rights of their citizens.

According to the activists under their umbrella body HURINET many Ugandans have not fully accessed basic rights to mainly targeting education, health, clean water among others with activists still mentioning that the country still experiences hunger amidst plenty of food with homeless children eating from garbage pits, ill-fed internally displaced people and refugees noting that 38% of the children below 5 years being stunted. However, they are calling for investigations in the root causes of social economic problems if they are to be tackled effectively and also acknowledge that they exist if the country is to find a solution to these problems.

Addressing a joint news conference today in kampala the executive director HURINET Muhammed Ndifuuna, national coordinator public interest law clinic (PILAC) Christopher Mbazira and the executive director initiative for social economic rights (ISER) Salima Namusobya state that they are organizing a national conference on social economic that will check the current national policies on social economic rights and how best they can be implemented