Tonny Kirabira

Tonny Raymond Kirabira is a PhD researcher at the University of Portsmouth Law School (United Kingdom). His interests are human rights, media law, politics and transitional justice, particularly focusing on narratives of victims. He holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from University of Notre Dame (United States), and a bachelor of Laws degree from Uganda Christian University (Uganda). He was a recipient of the VLIR-UOS scholarship under the Sustainable Development and Human Rights Law program at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He has also conducted studies and work in Kenya, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland.

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Tanzania’s Withdrawal of Access to the African Court: Further Retrogression in Human Rights Protection in East Africa

Tanzania’s Withdrawal of Access to the African Court: Further Retrogression in Human Rights Protection in East Africa

The Tanzanian government has withdrawn its special declaration to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court), and as a result, individuals and NGOs cannot directly file cases against it. In East Africa, it is the ...