Daily Monitor
Thursday December 10 2020
Mr Eliot Lance Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives
Summary
Mr Engel, who is a Democrat, says that the US use the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to designate (label) individuals who may be responsible for violence in Uganda in recent years
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Mr Eliot Lance Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives, has asked his government its international partners to act and prevent what he describes as “further destabilisation” in Uganda and “facilitate the opening of civic and political space”, just weeks to the 2021 polls.
Mr Engel, who is a Democrat, says that the US use the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to designate (label) individuals who may be responsible for violence in Uganda in recent years