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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Executive Director, Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum - Uganda (HRAPF), an organization which fights for human rights of marginalized people in Uganda.  Recipient of a U.S. Human Rights award from Secretary of State Clinton (2012).  Lawyer.  
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Executive Director, Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum - Uganda (HRAPF), an organization which fights for human rights of marginalized people in Uganda.  Noted human rights lawyer. His research interests are in the areas of: LGBTI rights, the right to health, and children’s rights.  Recipient of a U.S. Human Rights award from Secretary of State Clinton (2012) for coordinating the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which led civil society opposition to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill (2009).  He received the Vera Chirwa Award 2016 from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and he was the first runner-up for the European Union’s Human Rights Defenders Award 2017.  Lawyer.  
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==See Also==
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* [[Practising LGBTQ Rights Lawyers]]
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==
  
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* https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-jjuuko-4ba29a21/
 
* http://www.hrapf.org/
 
* http://www.hrapf.org/
 
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iRRPkYlixE
 
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iRRPkYlixE

Latest revision as of 19:32, 12 December 2022

Adrian Jjuuko

Country

Uganda

Birth - Death

Occupation

Activist

Description

Executive Director, Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum - Uganda (HRAPF), an organization which fights for human rights of marginalized people in Uganda. Noted human rights lawyer. His research interests are in the areas of: LGBTI rights, the right to health, and children’s rights. Recipient of a U.S. Human Rights award from Secretary of State Clinton (2012) for coordinating the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which led civil society opposition to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill (2009). He received the Vera Chirwa Award 2016 from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and he was the first runner-up for the European Union’s Human Rights Defenders Award 2017. Lawyer.

See Also

Further Reading/Research


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