The Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, sending a team of parliamentarians to Gulu and Arua is good, but Ugandans deserve better. How about our legislators joining the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV), member organisations of the Coalition Against Torture(CAT), the National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders(NCHRDs) and the Uganda Human Rights Commission(UHRC) in advocating for the effective implementation of the Prevention and Prohibition of Torture Act No.3 of 2012?
How about if the Speaker was our ambassador in lobbying the State to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture 2006(OPCAT)? The latter allows unlimited access to all these places of detention, whether gazetted or not to designated visiting Human Rights bodies under Article 3 of this protocol. In fact Speaker, it shall not necessitate you to inform the public and media about the Human Rights Committee visits to these places of detention in order to be allowed access.
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