Introducing Blogger Jackie Tumwine

Jackie is a GLOBALink Africa correspondent based in Kampala and a seasoned blogger.

 My name is Jackie Tumwine, I am a Ugandan lawyer with a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from Makerere University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. I have recently earned a Diplôme de Langue Française (DL) from Alliance Française.

My LLB dissertation entitled- ‘The Child’s Right to a Smoke-Free Environment’ jump started my interest in tobacco control. My research analysed how tobacco violates children’s rights.

Soon after completing my dissertation I was fortunate to participate in a FCTC capacity building workshop in Jinja, Uganda in 2004, organized by the Framework Convention Alliance.

There I met an amazing group of dedicated tobacco control advocates from Africa, all working hard to fight tobacco’s toll on people’s lives and they were making a difference. In short, I was inspired and chose to take action.

Shortly after, I founded the Health and Environmental Rights Organization (HERO-Uganda) and I have been its Executive Director since.

HERO-Uganda is active in tobacco control in Uganda, particularly in the area of advocacy for ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and enforcement of our smoke-free law.

HERO’s aim is to protect the right to health and the right to a clean and healthy environment through research, advocacy and sensitization.

My LLB dissertation entitled- ‘The Child’s Right to a Smoke-Free Environment’ jump started my interest in tobacco control. My research analysed how tobacco violates children’s rights.

Soon after completing my dissertation I was fortunate to participate in a FCTC capacity building workshop in Jinja, Uganda in 2004, organized by the Framework Convention Alliance.

There I met an amazing group of dedicated tobacco control advocates from Africa, all working hard to fight tobacco’s toll on people’s lives and they were making a difference. In short, I was inspired and chose to take action.

Shortly after, I founded the Health and Environmental Rights Organization (HERO-Uganda) and I have been its Executive Director since.

HERO-Uganda is active in tobacco control in Uganda, particularly in the area of advocacy for ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and enforcement of our smoke-free law.

HERO’s aim is to protect the right to health and the right to a clean and healthy environment through research, advocacy and sensitization.