By Our Reporter. The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) income declined from Shs1.84 trillion in the 2020/21 financial year to Shs1.77 trillion. officials said.. The difficult economic environment and policy changes affected National Social Security Fund (NSSF) income for the period ended 2021/22. During the year, according to results presented in Kampala this month NSSF’s…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recommended a temporary ban of recruitment and export of domestic workers to Saudi Arabia until adequate protection measures are put in place. Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau told Members of Parliament that it had written to the Labour Ministry to impose a…
By Our Reporter. The infamous Computer Misuse Amended Act, 2022 has been challenged before the East African Court of Justice, few days after President Kaguta Yoweri Museveni assented to it into law. The democracy and human rights watchdog, the Legal Brains Trust, filed a petition before the East African Court of Justice in the First…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. Kenya’s Cooperative Bank continued to scale the heights of corporate excellence as 2022 entered its last quarter buoyed by the remarkable performance of its new subsidiary Kingdom Bank. Top management is now projecting at least Sh300 million pre-tax profit this financial year, riding on a confidence boost after being acquired…
By Samuel Obedgiu. I don’t want to sound like a broken record by reiterating the fact that the European MEPs passed a resolution condemning the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) for human rights abuses. This won’t be the first action taken against oil sector agreements. Before the word EACOP even made it to our…
By Our Reporters. Global Journalists and Human Rights organisations have condemned Uganda for enacting a draconian Computer Misuse law which violates fundamental human rights. A cross section of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) affiliates castigated Uganda government for duping nationals with good provisions enshrined in the Constitution that gurantee freedom of expression, Press Freedom, access…
By Our Reporter. The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), a government agency responsible for the management and protection of wildlife in and outside protected areas, obtained the FSC (www.FSC.org) forest management certificate for three national parks. With a combined area of 211,100 ha, the three parks—Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), Rwenzori Mountains National Park (RMNP), and…
By Hon Agnes Kunihira Abwoli, Female Workers MP. The effects of sexual harassment can be categorized into physiological, psychological and in career related effects. Sexual harassment in employment interferes with work when it is made a condition of employment or created an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. It causes physiological reactions to the person…
By Hon Charles Bakkabulinde, Workers’ MP. The International Labour Organization (ILO) defines a domestic as “a wage earner working in a private household, under whatever method and period of remuneration, who may be employed by one or several employers who receive no pecuniary gain from this work”. The domestic worker (household helper or domestic aid)…
By Our Reporters. Uganda gained independence on October 9th, 1962. Since 1894 the country was a British protectorate that was put together from some very organized kingdoms and chieftaincies that inhabited the lake regions of central Africa. At independence, Dr. Milton Apollo Obote, also leader of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) became the first Prime…