Useful Information

OHCHR in Uganda
2010-2011
2008-2009
2006-2007

Publications

	OHCHR Report 2015
	OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017
	Human Rights in Action (PDF)
	A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Uganda

Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
(No invitation extended)
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

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Uganda and UN Charter-based Bodies

Uganda and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health - Mission to Uganda (A/HRC/7/11/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health - Preliminary note on the mission to Uganda (A/HRC/4/28/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Paul Hunt - Mission to Uganda (E/CN.4/2006/48/Add.2)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons: Mission to Uganda (E/CN.4/2004/77/Add.1)

Effects of structural adjustment policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights Report submitted by the independent expert - Mission to Uganda (E/CN.4/2004/47/Add.1)

Report submitted by Ms. Katarina Tomasevski, Special Rapporteur on the right to education (E/CN.4/2000/6 /Add.1)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her office in Uganda (A/HRC/7/38/Add.2)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her office in Uganda (A/HRC/4/49/Add.2)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2016) CRPD/C/UGA/CO/1

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2015) E/C.12/UGA/CO/1

Committee on Migrant Workers
Concluding observations (2015) CMW/C/UGA/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2010) CEDAW/C/UGA/CO/7

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2008) CRC/C/OPAC/UGA/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2008) CRC/C/OPSC/UGA/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2005) CRC/C/UGA/CO/2

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2005) CAT/C/CR/34/UGA

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2004) CCPR/CO/80/UGA

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2003) CERD/C/62/CO/11

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

OHCHR in Uganda

OHCHR’s Uganda country office was established in July 2005 and a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Government of Uganda in January 2006. The mandate initially focused on the human rights situation in the conflict-affected areas of northern and north-eastern Uganda (Karamoja). The office’s mandate was renewed in October 2009 for two years and broadened to cover the whole country.
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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Africa Section
Tel. +41 22 928 9694

Field

Tel: (256) 41 233 440
Kampala, Uganda
Email:

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OHCHR in the field

Regional Offices

Country Offices

Human Rights Components of Peace Missions

Human Rights Advisors

Action 2

Technical Cooperation Programme

National Human Rights Institutions