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Isaac Ssemakadde is a human rights defender in Uganda, born on 15 September 1984. He is a Lawyer by profession. He describes himself as an anticlockwise thinker and legal rebel. [1] [2] [3] He was elected as the President of the Uganda Law Society on September 28, 2024 at the Speke Resort Hotel, Munyonyo.
On 13 September 2020, Pheona Wall was elected as the new president for Uganda Law Society replacing Simon Peter Kinobe. [5] Pheona Wall won with 441 votes. [6] In March 2016, Pheona was elected Honorary Secretary Uganda Law Society where she worked on governance reforms until 2018 when she was elected vice president and Chairperson of the Legal Aid and Pro Bono Project of the Uganda Law ...
The Uganda Law Society was formed by an act of Parliament in 1956. [1] The ULS is governed by an executive council with representatives from each of the four regions of Uganda. [2] It is a member of the East Africa Law Society, which also includes member countries Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. [3]
In September 2020, Kinobe as the president of Uganda Law Society issued a "deep concern" statement on the alleged illegal arrest and detention of lawyers under the orders of Internal Security Organization. The Court responded by ordering the army and police to avail the detained lawyer for healing in the High Court. [17] [18]
Bossa was a lecturer at the Law Development Centre of Uganda from 1981 until 1997. [9] She was a legal practitioner from 1988 until 1997, representing indigent women and expanding legal aid, including serving as president of the Uganda Law Society. [10] She served as Judge at the Uganda High Court from 1997 until 2013.
KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda's Constitutional Court on Monday began hearing a challenge to an anti-LGBT law that carries the death penalty for certain same-sex acts and 20 years in prison for ...
Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad, it was ...
An April ruling by the country's constitutional court declined to void Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), a move requested by the activists who argued the law violated fundamental rights and ...