This period has been challenging to many Ugandans and especially the young people who have tried to exercise their fundamental freedoms and rights. The government has
suppressed whoever has tried to build democratic platforms and hundreds have been
tortured and disappeared as many lost their lives in the struggle. For instance, in the past years including the recent riots in Kampala, over 55 people civilians died due to police brutality and excessive use of force by heavily armed personnel. How can we use social media to bring about worldwide awareness to the injustices in Uganda?
Date: Friday 4 December 2020
Time: 19.30 Kampala time / 17.30 CET / 16.30 BST / 11.30 Eastern
Moderators: Nico Schoonderwoerd & Patricia Namyalo
Guests:
Helen C Epstein
Author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror/ Visiting Professor Global Public Health and Human Rights at Bard College.
Helen Epstein has served as a consultant for such organizations as UNICEF, the World Bank and Human Rights Watch and writes frequently for The New York Review of Books, the Nation and other magazines. She worked on health programs in Uganda from 1993-5 and in the 2000s, and has returned to the country many times as a reporter. She has spoken about Uganda’s human rights crisis at the US State Department and at many US colleges and universities.
Robert Amsterdam
He is the founding partner of Amsterdam & Partners LLP, a boutique international law firm with offices in London and Washington DC. The law firm is well known for its pro bono practice in human rights, including the defense of the award-winning democracy activist Dr. Chee Soon Juan of Singapore, Ilya Ponomarev, an exiled Russian State Duma Deputy, Maurice Kamto, leader of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, a Ugandan MP and opposition leader, and Tundu Lissu, leader of the CHADEMA party in Tanzania.
Dr. Daniel Kawuma
Dr. Daniel Kawuma (Pharm. D) is a Pharmacist currently practicing in the United States. He is a Founder and Board Chairman of Ugandan Diaspora Company (Temba) and the director of Diaspora Health Network.
He is a strong advocate for nurturing the ideals of internationalism & multiculturalism as a bridge towards global peace in addition to sowing the seeds of community service through volunteering and selfless leadership.
