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The UN rights office said on Tuesday it was in discussion with Uganda over how to continue its work in the country after the government said it had to leave.

FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a statement in Port-au-Prince, Haiti February 10, 2023.FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a statement in Port-au-Prince, Haiti February 10, 2023.

The office was set up in 2006 and has brought to light widespread rights violations by security personnel including torture, illegal detentions and failure by the state to prosecute offenders. last week that it would not renew the mandate of its office, effectively expelling the rights monitors.

 

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