DEFENDERS ACROSS BORDERS: CONGOLESE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN UGANDA'S REFUGEE REGIME
The recent focus on the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs) has so far failed to capture the experiences and protection needs of HRDs active within refugee populations. This paper challenges the pervasive invisibility and marginalisation of refugee defenders through foregrounding the voice of one of a number of HRDs forced to flee persecution for their human rights work in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and seek protection under Uganda’s refugee regime, joining tens of thousands living in protracted refugee settlements and as ‘self-settled’ refugees in the capital city Kampala.
Katie McQuaid, March 2018