III.3.4.3 Uganda

Legislation

  1. The Refugees Act, 2006.
  2. The National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons, 2004.
  3. The Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act, 1999.
  4. Ugandan Constitution, 1995, National Objectives and Directive principles of State Policy, Section. V, Chapter Four: Protection and Promotion of fundamental and other human rights and Freedoms.

Readings

Core

  1. S. T. Beraki, ‘The Human Rights Dimension of Refugee Status Determination in Uganda: a Critical Analysis of the Right of Asylum Seekers to a Fair Hearing’, An LLM dissertation submitted to the School of Graduate Studies (Uganda: Makerere University, 2008).
  2. A. Kiapi, ‘The Legal Status of Refugees in Uganda’, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, vol. 3, no.1 (1997), pp. 115–129.
  3. Z. A. Lomo, A. Naggaga, and L. Hovil, ‘The Phenomenon of Forced Migration in Uganda: An Overview of Policy and Practice in Historical Context’, Refugee Law Project Working Paper, no. 1, Kampala (2001).

Extended

  1. K. Huff, K. and R. Kalyango, ‘Refugees in the City: Status Determination, Resettlement and the Changing Nature of Forced Migration in Uganda’, Refugee Law Project Working Paper, no. 6 (2002).
  2. K. Huff and R. Kalyango, ‘A Drop in the Ocean: Assistance and Protection for Forced Migrants in Kampala’, Refugee Law Project Working Paper, no. 16 (2006).
  3. Z. A. Lomo, ‘The Struggle for Protection of the Rights of Refugees and IDPs in Africa: Making the Existing International Legal Regime Work’, Berkeley Journal of International Law, vol. 18, no. 2 (2000), pp. 268–284.
  4. Refugee Law Project, Critique of the Refugees Act (2006).
  5. R. Sengendo, ‘Do Refugees Have Rights? The Case of Tesfaye Shiferwa Awala v. Attorney General’, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, vol. 11, no. 2 (2005), pp. 301-322.
  6. S. Tindifa, ‘Refugees and Human Rights in Uganda: A Critical Assessment of the Law, Policy and Practice’, East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights, vol. 5, no.1 (1998), pp. 53–63.