AHURIO staff participates in training on Human Rights Reporting

AHURIO Coordinator, Fred Kaahwa participated in a training workshop on Human Rights Reporting and Handover of Case Database organized by Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in partnership with the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Uganda.

Javier Sanjuan facilitating the training

During the three (3) days residential training held on 19^th – 21^st April, 2016 in Esella Country Hotel, Wakiso district, Uganda participants were equipped with skills and knowledge in general human rights concepts, human rights instruments, human rights obligations for states including Uganda, National Human rights framework in Uganda, concepts and principles of human rights monitoring.

Other topics covered during the training included Levels of human rights Monitoring, Human Rights Fact finding: trends and cases, Methodology for monitoring human rights cases and Human Rights reporting among others.

AHURIO will use the skills and knowledge gained from the training to strengthen human rights reporting and monitoring in the Rwenzori region through organizing similar trainings in the region. In addition, AHURIO will use the case data base to increase documentation, reporting and analysis of the human rights abuses and violations and also analysis of trends of human rights violations and abuses in the region.

AHURIO coordinator sharing during the training

TLC Coordinator in the training

Participants included human rights defenders from across Uganda from human rights Civil society organizations like Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC), HURINET, Chapter Four - Uganda, FHRI, RDP from Masindi, East & Horn Human Rights Defenders Network, Sexual Minorities - Uganda, Freed and Roam - Uganda, Uganda Journalists Association, Human Rights Centre Uganda among others and facilitators included human rights experts like Javier Sanjuan of the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner