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Uganda: Repressive NGO Act

2016-03-09 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Nearly two weeks after controversially winning a fifth term, it has emerged that Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed another repressive law which restricts the operations of thousands of NGOs working in the country. The veteran leader signed the NGO Act 2016, which rights groups stress contains "special obligations provisions which are vague and undefined, thus prone to abuse" on January 30, according to a copy of the law seen by IPS. The new legislation states that it is aimed at providing...

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