Human Rights Focus

Human Rights Focus is a member-based human rights organisation with a countrywide mandate to promote and defend human rights. It was founded in 1994 in Northern Uganda to respond to the then deteriorating human rights situation in the region, resulting from civil strife and armed rebellion. HURIFO is registered in Uganda as an NGO with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and as a Company Limited by Guarantee. It has a nationwide mandate with a current geographical focus in the Acholi sub-region formed by Amuru, Agago, Gulu, Pader, Kitgum, Lamwo, Nwoya and Omoro districts. A Board of Trustees and a Board of Directors govern it.