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ISER is an independent nonprofit human rights organization with a mission to enhance realization of social and economic rights through innovative approaches to research, capacity building, social mobilization and advocacy

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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ISER’s research, "Combating Child Labour in Uganda", examines how poverty, the cost of education, weak social protection, gaps in labour enforcement and weaknesses in corporate accountability continue to leave children vulnerable to exploitation. iser-uganda.org/wp-content/u...
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#HappeningNow ISER has convened a #UPR ESCR cluster thematic meeting to validate the alternative report ahead of the Uganda's 4th review cycle in 2027. The thematic areas include education, health, business & human rights, food, women's rights, labour, & children's rights
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Happening Now: @iseruganda.bsky.social is convening a stakeholder workshop for the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) thematic cluster to shape the civil society alternative report ahead of Uganda’s 4th Cycle Universal Periodic Review (#UPR) in January 2027.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The realization of human rights does not just happen by itself. It requires brave actions and brave actors. #RohkeaTeko #SupportBraveActions #IDefendHumanRights @kiosfoundation.bsky.social Join the campaign: kios.fi/en/support-b...
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Uganda takes a bold step for its youngest learners by launching the National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy 2025; laying the foundation for a stronger start in life. ISER is proud to have contributed to this great milestone. @kiosfoundation.bsky.social @jobeckerhrw.bsky.social
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join us tomorrow (15th April) for a panel discussion on universal social protection at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Group Spring Meetings: 📅 April 15 | 11:00am–12:30pm (Washington, DC) 🔗 Online: imf.zoom.us/j/9652314470... More details: lnkd.in/eWMgJHrE #SpringMeetings2026 #SpringMeetings
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
On this #WorldHealthDay2026, what does 'Together for Health' mean to you? For Initiative for Social and Economic Rights - ISER, it means: ▪️centering science ▪️adequately funded public health systems, and ▪️access to quality and respectful healthcare
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📢 Just 3hrs to go Don't miss this WEBINAR: "Advancing Maternal Health Accountability in Africa", happening today, Thursday 5th March, 2pm REGISTER: bit.ly/405o2yc #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay @reprorights.org
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Numerous women continue to face abuse, neglect & denial of life-saving maternal healthcare. Others are detained in facilities over unpaid bills. Join us to demand for maternal health accountability across Africa in a webinar Register: bit.ly/405o2yc #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"There is a clear consensus that public investment in early learning pays off. It levels the playing field for disadvantaged children and significantly lowers school dropout rates." Angella K. Nabwowe writes in today's Daily Monitor newspaper www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/...
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
At face value, the US-Uganda health deal wears generosity & saviourism. However, a critical analysis tells a different story. Beneath the headline numbers lies a deeply unequal arrangement that raises serious questions about sovereignty, data control, & long-term public health security.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#Humanrights aren't distant ideals or policy aspirations; they're the everyday conditions that enable people to live with dignity. The right to #socialprotection is at the center of these conditions. READ our statement iser-uganda.org/wp-content/u... #HumanRightsDay
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
ISER welcomes the Cabinet’s landmark decision to expand SAGE eligibility age from 80yrs to 65yrs, and to increase the transfer value from UGX 25,000 to UGX 35,000. This is a step toward aligning with Uganda’s National Social Protection Policy, which defines an older person as 60 years and above.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our ED, Angella K. Nabwowe, is in Maseru Lesotho for a conference & launch of a study on the level of child rights mainstreaming in Nation Action Plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights; convened by Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA). #BusinessandHumanRights #UNGPs
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Day 2 of the #UNTaxConvention negotiations in Nairobi! Today, ISER demands that Member States treat Article 5 — Taxation of High Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs) — with the urgency it deserves. #TaxTheRich Read our full press release on our demands.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The National Social Protection Dialogue 2025 is happening today! Our Executive Director, Angella K. Nabwowe will be joining other panelists to discuss the critical role of social protection in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs). #socialprotectionmonth2025
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#InternationalDayofOlderPersons
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Today, Wednesday 1st October, 2025 is the #InternationalDayofOlderPersons! Join our partners in the CSO Working Group on Social Protection for a live & important conversation on social protection for older persons on @Next Radio at 7:00 PM (EAT). #APeoplesPension #socialprotection
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Today, 25th Sept., we expect to receive the ruling of the High Court, Civil Division on the Attorney General’s preliminary objection of res judicata in a case challenging the detention of women in health facilities due to failure to pay medical bills. Read our report iser-uganda.org/publication/...
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
As we celebrate #DemocracyDay today, ISER's ED, Angella K. Nabwowe, is participating in discussions around the link between democracy & economic justice at the University of Ghana Department of Economics organized by Open Society Foundations &IDEAS Africa Network.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Social protection is not a matter of discretion; it is a RIGHT. Read Jackson Wandera's OpEd in The Daily Monitor . monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/... #SocialProtectionUG
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
As world leaders begin Session 2 of the UN Tax Convention negotiations in New York today, the future of our digital economy is on the table. Will global rules finally be fair for countries like Uganda? We're watching closely. #TaxJusticeUG #UNTaxTalks #UNTaxConvention
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Unless public participation is recognized as a constitutional imperative, even in high-value, complex contracts, citizens will remain spectators in decisions that profoundly affect their lives - George Mudonyi opines about the Lubowa hospital judgment. #ReclaimPublicServices
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We have convened an inception meeting for the project “A People’s Pension - Phase II” aimed at deepening efforts to advance legal reform, sustainable financing & public engagement for a universal, rights-based pension system in Uganda. @byinsects.bsky.social #APeoplesPension #SocialProtectionUG
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Don't punish school girls for getting pregnant. A pregnant girl is often punished harsher than her sexual abuser. Leaders frame teenage pregnancy as a moral failing, ignoring its reality as a dev't emergency & a human rights crisis. Read Labila Sumayah Musoke's OpEd www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/...
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Today we join the Ministry of Public Service Uganda and 40+ gov't Ministries Departments and Agencies to commemorate #APSD2025. We reiterate our call to the Government of Uganda to reverse decades of cuts towards public health and education Uganda. #ReclaimPublicServices
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Expelled from school for being pregnant: Is it protection or abuse? We are taking the conversation outside the meeting rooms. Join/follow the conversation live on @933kfm, 7pm today. @reprorights.bsky.social
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In Uganda, 22% of adolescent girls drop out of school due to pregnancy, and only 8% ever return to complete their education locking them into cycles of poverty and disadvantage they did not choose. Follow the conversation this morning on Bukedde TV at 10am. @reprorights.bsky.social
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Social security is a human right—not a handout. This morning, together with our partner @byinsects.bsky.social, we are launching a working paper comparing social pension reforms across Africa and what Uganda must do to protect its older citizens. #APeoplesPension #SocialProtectionUG
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📍Yumbe District Our engagements with faith leaders using the Channels of Hope methodology continue this week. We are empowering faith leaders in Yumbe to champion education for pregnant girls & adolescent mothers. #EducationforAll
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Join us & @byinsects.bsky.social as we share findings published in a Working Paper - "A People’s Pension: Comparative Perspectives from Southern and Eastern Africa", Tune in to @nbstv.bsky.social on Wed. 25th June, 10:30am - 11:30am. #APeoplesPension #SocialProtectionUG @rasmusjs.bsky.social
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Today, we are convening a national stakeholder dialogue on the prevention and management of teenage pregnancies in school settings.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Is expelling a pregnant learner from school a form of protection or a violation of their right? Join ISER and @Mutuzo_M for a live X space conversation as we explore this critical and often controversial question. Today, Tuesday 17th June, 7:30pm. @reprorights.bsky.social
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
@ISERUganda welcomes the renewed committed by Hon. Janet Museveni & Min. of Educ. to review the National Sexuality Education Framework after 7 years since its adoption. This Framework is critical for safeguarding adolescents’ right to health among many other goals. @reprorights.bsky.social
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#ISERontheBudget In the Uganda FY2025/26 budget, debt servicing consumes a staggering 39% of resources, with interest payments of UGX11.3 trillion surpassing combined allocations for health, education & social protection. iser-uganda.org/wp-content/u... #PeopleCenteredBudget #KnowYourBudget25
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today we join other partners to commemorate the #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour. #EndChildLabour
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#EndChildLabour #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Tomorrow, 22nd May, during the Fireside chat at the ongoing #ID4Africa2025, Elizabeth Atori will be speaking about how Initiative for Social and Economic Rights - ISER is adopting #DPI safeguards. #dpisafeguards
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We've hosted a stakeholder engagement to develop a CSO road map to serve as a blue print that will guide CSO engagements with government & various non-state actors on ending coercive school practices and upholding the right to health and education of pregnant girls in Uganda.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
ISER's Elizabeth Atori will join a panel discussion on fostering trust and respecting dignity in digital ID systems. We look forward to contributing to key discussions on the adoption of Digital ID systems on the continent. #ID4Africa2025
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We are thrilled to be part of the #ID4Africa2025 conference in Addis Ababa! Every individual has a right to identity and must be included even as Africa adopts Digital ID scale.
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Strengthening communities to eliminate child labour! ISER, with support from Enabel & European Union, launches a 4-day training for 160 School Management Committee (SMC) members in Kikuube district to combat child labor in the agri-business & extractives sectors. #EndChildLabour
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We are in Bugiri & Bugweri districts (Busoga sub region) engaging School Management Committee (SMC) Members on their roles and responsibilities in eliminating child labour and ensuring that children keep in school and complete their education. #EndChildLabour #StopChildLabour @enabel.be
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In order to achieve sustainable dev't we must prioritize workers' rights by: - Promoting decent work & safe working conditions - Protecting workers' rights - Advocating for the eradication of child labor - Holding businesses accountable for labor abuses #LabourDay #LabourDay2025 #EndChildLabour
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
For the past 2 days, we've been checking-in with our Community Advocates regarding their monitoring & documentation of the impact of digital IDs on access to public services as part of a project aimed at driving inclusive & human rights based digital ID. #NdagaMuntu #digitalisationandhumanrightsug
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🚨 They call it “Administrative Efficiency”—we call it USh 2.5 TRILLION WASTED! 💸 That could’ve built 1,364 government secondary schools. Isn’t our future worth more than fancy ceremonies, consultancies & SUVs? Demand #BudgetJusticeUG now. #AProPeopleBudget #ISERontheBudget
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today, we've met with the Kayunga District Registration Officer - NIRA and the district CAO to discuss our upcoming community outreach activities in 2 sub-counties. In partnership with NIRA, we are working to enhance National ID awareness & registration. #NdagaMuntu #DigitalizationAndHumanRightsUg
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
ISER is at @unu-iigh.bsky.social's 1st annual symposium examining the rise & impact of powerful private actors across the global health system. Our ED, Angella K. Nabwowe, is sharing experiences on accountability mechanism. 📍Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia #HealthGovernance #HealthForAll #HealthJustice
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
@rteinitiative.bsky.social's new monitoring guide for Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) is available at www.right-to-education.org/sites/right-.... #RightToEducation #HumanRights #Indicators
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ISER @iseruganda.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In afew minutes, our ED, Angella K. Nabwowe will be part of a panel launching Right to Education Initiative 's new monitoring guide focusing on #ECCE. Register here: tinyurl.com/mtpdp9z3 and find all info here: tinyurl.com/yxdxhjkn with #RightToEducation #HumanRights #Indicators
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