LGPOA Austin Police Association

2016 CONFERENCE SPEACKERS

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Adrian Jjuuko

Adrian Jjuuko
Adrian Jjuuko is a Ugandan human rights lawyer and advocate. He is the Executive Director of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF). HRAPF engages the Police and the Judiciary on LGBTI rights within a largely hostile legal environment.

He is the current Chair of the Legal Committee and former coordinator of the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which coordinated civil society efforts to nullify Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act and which won the US State Department’s Human Rights Defenders Award 2011. Adrian coordinated the successful legal efforts to challenge the Anti Homosexuality Act, 2014 in Uganda’s Constitutional Court and is leading the process to challenge the Act at the East African Court of Justice.
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