HUMAN RIGHTS AND PATRIMONIAL POLITICS: CHALLENGES TO THE SOCIAL AND LEGAL ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN UGANDA - Softcover

MICHAEL GEORGE, KIZITO

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639158520 ISBN 13: 9783639158526

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010

Synopsis

This book critically examines the enforcement role of the Uganda Human Rights Commission(UHRC) amidst an esoteric , utopian , covert , manipulative , authoritarian and ethnically defined movement political regime that came to power with a pre-determined intention to infringe on the political rights which are not in tandem with its ideological paradigm . The book exposes the ?sophisticated' techniques which the movement system employs in order to virtually silence all opposition and cling to power at all costs . These include among others : the infiltration of all human rights stake holders and the implicit use of a one party political state to dominate the legislature and subsequently infiltrate state institutions through legislation .In conclusion book critically examines the impossibility of enforcing human rights with out fear or favour amidst a patrimonial and ethnically defined one party movement political regime and hence the need to replace it with a self critical pluralistic democracy in which opinions co-exist without any despicable manipulation

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About the Author

Kizito Michael George teaches Philosophy, Human Rights and Gender in Makerere University, Department of Philosophy. He is the Programmes Manager of Makerere Centre for Applied Ethics. He holds a B.A and an Mphil. He is working on a PhD project titled: ?'Pro-Poor Empowerment and the Ethics of Poverty Policy Discourse''.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639158520
• ISBN 13: 9783639158526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124