Freedom House Tells MCC to Suspend Uganda

Freedom House calls on the MCC to suspend Uganda's eligibility from Threshold Program funding if President Museveni passes an amendment to the NGO Registration Bill that requires NGOs (including existing ones) to re-register annually and allows the government to deny registration if it decides that an organization is against "any government policy, plan or public interest," without definition or limit attached to these terms.

"While some steps have been taken toward the consolidation of democracy in Uganda, many of these have been merely cosmetic. The Museveni government must become accountable to its constituents in a way that allows civil society and opposition parties to develop and freely speak out against the government,...We call on the U.S. government to follow the lead of the European Union and publicly address the issue, including revoking Uganda's status as a threshold country for the Millennium Challenge Account."