Open Letter to G20 Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and the IMF: CSOs call for issuance of more SDRs and fairer distribution
Due to the rules governing the distribution of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), more than...
ISER's Oral Statement to 71st Ordinary Session of African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
An oral statement delivered by ISER during the 71st Ordinary Session of African Commission...
Reclaim Public Health Services for a Healthier Planet and Green Economic Recovery - ISER's statement on World Health Day
In commemoration of World Health Day 2022, ISER calls upon government and all development partners to adequately fund public health services for a green just recovery.
ISER' Statement at the 39th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
A Statement delivered by ISER on 21st March during the 39th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC).
ISER' Statement at the 38th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
A Statement delivered by ISER on 15th November during the 38th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
Civil society groups celebrate IFC's divestment from profit-driven school chain Bridge International Academies
A Joint Press Statement by Civil society groups celebrating the World Bank's divestment from profit-driven school chain Bridge International Academies.
ISER's Press Statement: 2022 Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
ISER's Press Statement as Uganda appears before the Human Rights Council for the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
ISER’s Oral Statement on Social Economic Rights and COVID 19 to the 69th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
A statement read at the 69th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human...
ISER Press Statement on the Launch of the NAP on Business and Human Rights
A press statement by ISER at the launch of the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.
The Future is Public: Global Manifesto for Public Services
Civil society organisations and movements on 25th October 2021 launched a landmark Manifesto calling for a renewed approach to public services, such as education, energy, food, health and care services, housing, social security, telecommunications, transportation, waste collection and disposal, and water and sanitation, to address the ecological, inequalities and other crises the world is currently facing.
ISER's Statement at the commemoration of SDGs Global Week 2021
In the wake of COVID 19, achieving the SDGs are more critical than ever. This statement highlights critical issues that the government and its relevant departments and agencies should address to ensure the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Uganda.
ISER appears before the Parliamentary Committee on Gender Labour and Social and Development on key social protection issues
On 19th August 2021, ISER appeared before the Parliamentary Committee on Gender Labour and Social and Development to present views on a number of key social protection issues in Uganda.
CSO Joint Statement at the 2021 Global Education Summit
A joint statement issued by 36 CSOs calling on governments to make robust funding commitments for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), and urging GPE and its partners to use the money raised during the summit in support of free public education and to ensure that no funding is used to support commercial actors, in accordance with human rights requirements.
Public Education Works - Five lessons from low- and middle-income countries
A Policy Brief produced collaboratively by working members of the Privatisation Education and Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC) reviewing 7 case studies on positive public education in developing countries.
Enough Is Enough - A Poem
A moving poem titled "Enough is Enough" recited by Kiira Brian Alex during a memorial organised by ISER under the Coalition for Quality Public Services to remember loved ones lost due to Covid 19 on 9th June 2021.
CSO recommendations on ODA eligibility of spending related to Covid-19 vaccines
A CSO Statement by various organisations including ISER to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on oversees Development Agency (ODA) eligibility of spending related to Covid-19 vaccines urging them not to unduly valorise donor countries that hoarded vaccines for a behaviour that exacerbated vaccine inequality in the first place.