Nana Mwafrika Mbarikiwa
HRD
Nana Mwafrika Mbarikiwa is an independent woman human rights defender. In recent years, she has defended civil and political rights in Uganda and demonstrated against the imprisonment of human right defender and scholar Dr Stella Nyanzi, who has been detained for the last four months.
The Ugandan government continues to limit freedom of expression and association with human rights defenders being subjected to threats, intimidation and judicial harassment due to their legitimate human rights work.
