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Right to Health

About the program

The Right to Health Program promotes the right to the highest attainable standard of the physical and mental health as stipulated in domestic, regional and international human rights instruments. Projects under the right to health contribute to advancing the right to health in Uganda by catalyzing citizen participation in health rights advocacy and promoting accountability in the health sector. ISER ensures a deliberate and systematic strategy to get communities to participate in health rights advocacy, enable access to information, strengthening the capacity of grass root groups nationally to monitor and self advocate against health rights violations, continuous monitoring and documentation of violations for advocacy, including budget advocacy and legal empowerment for the realization of the right to health.

Recent updates

Recent publications

Our Future is Public: Why the IMF and World Bank Must Support Public Services

This publication argues that international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF are not doing enough to...

Financing a Just and Inclusive Recovery (ESRA Brief Issue 14)

The 14th issue of the Economic and Social Rights Advocacy (ESRA) Brief features highlights from the annual national conference on...

Economic Social Rights recommendations for Uganda from the 3rd Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

On January 27, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group examined Uganda’s human rights...