Medi Kaggwa

Government has been tasked to uphold the economic, social and cultural rights of Ugandans even as it pursues the campaign to transform the country’s economy. Uganda has been a signatory to the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Treaty since 1987 which mandates the country to uphold those rights.

Now speaking ahead of the third International Conference on economic social and cultural rights slated for tomorrow, the chairman Uganda human rights commission Medi Kaggwa said that the ongoing investments is gradually infringing on people’s human rights. He explained that currently the country government is fronting interests of investors yet people are losing land, health service provision is neglected cultural cites and languages are vanishing, food is becoming a problem yet government is reluctant to intervene. He challenges government to take its responsibility to balance between the public interests and those of investors.

The conference is set to attract all human rights advocates from across Uganda.