Youth Human Rights Defenders Activities

Human Rights Center Uganda, a Kampala based HRD organization is currently implementing a youth human rights defenders project in Kitgum district.

This project is expected to go on for the next three years. In the project selected youth mentees are placed with human rights organization regarded as mentors who engage them in various human rights activities (MDR).

The organizations (including KINGFO) also provide exposure for the mentees to various Justice Law and Order Institutions such as the court, police and prisons learn firsthand what transpires in these places to gain a better perspective of human rights work.

Further KINGFO signed an MoU with HRCU to host some activities of the organization/project namely the quarterly YHRDs quarterly review meeting.

This quarterly meeting was conducted twice in 2023 whereby the mentees were in position to share their experiences, receive guidance from legal experts and learn from each other.