Uganda, March 27 -- Social services

The African Union (AU) in 2022 after lengthy deliberations adopted a Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security. Why hasn't Uganda ratified this important and very relevant instrument?

This AU Protocol on the right to social protection and social security calls for a holistic approach to social protection, one that links social security to health, education. It tasks African states to adequately finance social protection including requiring governments to curb leakages like illicit financial flows and progressive taxation. It calls for a lifecycle approach to social protection right from childhood to old age and remind...