Uganda Sued Over Digital ID System
An alliance of charities has sued the Ugandan government, according to an article published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, arguing that vulnerable groups have been denied access to potentially life-saving services due to flaws in the national ID card rollout.
The three charities – the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights, Unwanted Witness and the Health Equity and Policy Initiative – estimate that up to one-third of adults do not have the biometric ID card, seven years after the system was introduced.
Most of those affected are poor and marginalised, such as the elderly who have been unable to claim welfare payments, as well as pregnant women who have been turned away from health centres, they said, citing research 1 conducted last year.
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