A Ugandan UN judge, Lydia Mugambe, has just been sentenced to prison in Britain for more than six years for a forced labor offense. Mugambe argued that she had diplomatic immunity in her native Uganda, which was subsequently removed.
More about this UN judge, who enslaved a fellow Ugandan, can be found here: “Ugandan UN judge jailed in Britain for more than six years for forced labor offense,” Reuters, May 2, 2025:
A Ugandan and United Nations judge was jailed in Britain for more than six years on Friday for forcing a young woman to work without pay while the judge studied at the University of Oxford.
Lydia Mugambe, a judge of Uganda’s High Court since 2013, was appointed in 2023 to be a judge for the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which performs functions of previous tribunals relating to war crimes committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Prosecutors said Mugambe, 50, used her status in the “most egregious way” by tricking a young Ugandan woman to come to Britain in 2022 to work as a maid without payment.
Mugambe was charged under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act with conspiring with John Leonard Mugerwa, then Uganda’s deputy high commissioner, to get the victim into Britain by lying on her visa application….
This is not a story about Islamic slavery in the contemporary world. It is a story about the kind of people the UN employs. Just one detail that explains everything. Lydia Mugambe, the slave-owner, was not just any old judge. She was a UN judge. You know — that UN, the one with hundreds of staffers at UNRWA who are members of Hamas, with dozens of them joining in the fun of atrocities — rape, torture, mutilation, and murder — committed by Hamas when the terror group invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. That UN, where the General Assembly has passed more resolutions against Israel than it has passed against all the other 192 nations put together. That UN, that had as its Secretary-General from 1972 to 1981 a Nazi war criminal, Kurt Waldheim. That UN, that in May 1967 pulled all of its peacekeeping troops out of the Sinai, as demanded by Egypt’s Nasser, so that his troops could more easily invade Israel in a war that Nasser was sure would lead to Israel’s obliteration. That UN, where Francesca Albanese, who is Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, spends her time denouncing Israel for “war crimes” and “genocide.” That UN, where the Security Council has obligated itself at every meeting of the group to consider Agenda Item No. 7, which is about the treatment of Palestinians by Israel.
Too bad Lydia Mugambe will spend the next six years in prison. She would have fit right in as a judge on the International Criminal Court, as it considers what to do about that “genocidal” country, the state of Israel.
Zeenah says
That awful excuse for a “Judge” should be locked up for the rest of Her awful Life!
Is She gonna pay Slave Reparations?
Eddie says
Last year David Lammy UK Foreign Secretary told the International Court of Justice that as a black man he knows all abou the effects of Colonialism.. How his ancestors were lead from their homeland in chains.
I wonder if the fat hypocrite will be mentioning this case in Parliament?
Reminds me I must put in for reparations from the Danish Government.. They were always carrying of Anglo Saxons as slaves but of course they were white and that don’t count.
tgusa says
In far too many cases when you elevate Africans to positions of authority you get African values. The abolition of slavery in the West began long ago but ironically it still exists among Africans today.
sporticus says
She was at Oxford doing a PhD while slave-girl was attending memsahib’s needs.
Wikipedia:
“Mugambe claimed diplomatic immunity due to her status as a Ugandan High court judge and a United Nations judge before she was arrested…”
Thinks needs tidying up.
It is true that she was claiming diplomatic immunity as she was BEING arrested but was her claim of immunity based on judicial positions BEFORE (that is prior to) the time of her arrest, meaning her judicial status had lapsed?
Was she actively all three, UN judge, Ugandan judge, and post grad student, while slave-baby was cleaning her toilet?
And since when are judges classed as diplomats?
OLD GUY says
She should be jailed and required to pay restitution to the victim.
Joseph Askew says
This privileged slave owner will have un ethical Lawyers keeping her out of jail, not much justice in the legal system. The Living God of Israel is just.
LadyoftheLake says
Good piece. Exposing the UN for what it really is makes for great reading and is very very important. Keep the pedal to the metal against this evil, corrupt agency and the monsters it employs.