Human Rights and Peace Centre

1st EA TRAINING SCHOOL ON HUMAN RIGHTS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES

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HURIPEC will be hosting the first East African School on Human Rights, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines August 16, 2010 to August 27, 2010.

Click here to download the Flyer

SUMMER SCHOOL ON GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

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In partnership with the Centre of African Studies (CAS) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)-University of London and with the support from the Mo Ibrahim Foundation the Human Rights & Peace Centre will convene a Summer School on the subject of “Governance and Development in Africa” from 18th -23rd April, 2010 at Imperial Resort Beach Hotel, Entebbe. The School will draw participants from across the African Continent. Participants will include policy makers, legislators, academics, development workers, human rights activists and journalists.

The First Uganda Annual State Of Governance Conference

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The First Uganda Annual State of Governance Conference took place on Friday November 24, 2006 at Hotel Africana, Kampala. The Conference was organized as part of Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC)’s mandate to facilitate and promote multi-stakeholder dialogues on emerging public policy issues in the areas of governance, peace and human rights.

The major objective of the Conference was to promote open dialogue among a multiplicity of stakeholders on the different governance issues that have arisen during the course of 2006. Click here to read the Concept note The conference report

A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill

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HURIPEC Hosted a Public Dialogue on Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. Click here to read more

Eastern Africa Training School on Law, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS

The Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) of Makerere University, Uganda organized the first Eastern Africa Training School on Law, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS that ran from May 4 to May 15, 2009 in Kampala, Uganda. Click here to Read more

Training Proceedings, Materials and Papers Presented

Huripec Research Products

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CHANGES IN JOURNAL PRICES

This is to inform you that effective 2007,subscription rates to the East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights shall be changing as follows:

AFRICA

Individuals - $35 per issue

Institutions - $45 per issue

REST OF THE WORLD

Individuals - $50 per issue

Institutions - $70 per issue

(All prices quoted are inclusive of postage and packaging and the prices are per issue, since this is a bi-annual publication, a single volume of two issues is double the quoted prices)

Please note that these changes in prices do not affect Volume 12 #2 (2006) of the Journal which we are about to dispatch. The new prices come into effect starting with Volume 13(2007).

Furthermore, our international subscribers will be required to wire the money for the Journals directly into our account, as cheques will no longer be used as a mode of payment. When the money has been wired to our account, you will be required to send us an email with the details of the transaction on the email address gnakasi@law.mak.ac.ug

We therefore advice you to take note of these changes.

Journals

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Volume 9 : Issue Number 2, 2003

Volume 15 : Issue Number 2, 2009

Volume 15 : Issue Number 1, 2009

Volume 14 : Issue Number 2, 2008

Volume 14 : Issue Number 1, 2008

Volume 13 : Issue Number 2, 2007

Volume 13 : Issue Number 1, 2007

Volume 10 : Issue Number 2, 2004

Volume 10 : Issue Number 1, 2004

Volume 9 : Issue Number 1, 2003

Volume 12: Issue Number 1, 2006

Fact-Finding Missions or Omissions?: A Critical Analysis of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights By Tarisai Mutangi Volume 12 No. 1, 2006, pp 1 – 48

A Critical Analysis of Paradigms and Rights in Disability Discourses By Laura Nyirinkindi Volume 12 No. 1, 2006, pp 49 – 64

Women’s Property Rights and the Laws of Succession in Uganda: Reform Propositions By Anthony Luyirika Kafumbe Volume 12 No. 1, 2006, pp 65 – 90

Despair and Disdain: A Tale of Sexual Abuse Against Internally Displaced Women in Northern Uganda By Patrick Sooma Volume 12 No. 1, 2006, pp 91 – 119

The Role of the Education System in Promoting Unity and Reconciliation in Polarized Rwanda: A Human Rights Perspective Redson Edward Kapindu Volume 12 No. 1, 2006, pp 120 – 132

Volume 11, Issue Number 2 2005

Volume 11, Issue Number 1 2005

Volume 10, Issue Number 2, 2002

The Legal Dimensions of Refugee Problem in Africa. Nlerum S Okogbule Volume 10 # 2, December 2004, pp 176 – 191

Beyond Social Programs: The Right to Health Under The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. Thoko Kaime Location: Volume 10#2, December 2004, pp 192 – 205

Police Accountability in Kenya. Joshua N Auerbach Volume 10#2, December 2004, pp 206 – 245

Courts and Constitutional Duty to Protect Fundamental Rights. G. P. Tumwine- Mukuubwa Volume 10#2, December 2004, pp 246 – 274

Cameroon’s Emergency Powers: A Recipe for Constitutional Dictatorship? Charles Manga Formbad Volume 10 # 2, December 2004, pp 274 – 294.

Volume 10, Issue Number 1 2002

State Creation of Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya, 1991–1998: The Process and Political Dimensions Ahmednasir M. Abdullahi Volume 10 #1, June 2004, pp 1 – 33

Judicial Co-operation in East Africa: Its History and its Future. Geoffrey M. Kakuli Volume 10#1, June 2004, pp 34 – 52

A Rights-Centered Critique of African Philosophy in the Context of African Development. Kwadwo Appiagyei Atua Volume 10 #1, June 2004, pp 53 – 77

National Human Rights Institutions under Fire: The Uganda Human Rights Commission on the Brink? Apollo N. Makubuya Volume 10#1, June 2004, pp 78 – 99

Armed Conflict, Law and Challenges to the New Transitional Order in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Andre Mbata B. Mangu Volume 10#1, June 2004, pp 100 – 138