REFUGEES FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION UNHCR, APRIL 2023 Uganda For other rights of refugees, including access to the labour market and land, see Refugee Policy Review Framework.273 On policies for local integration see Uganda: Brief on the Management of Forced Displacement, by the Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat for the Great Lakes. 274 International instruments Uganda is a State Party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (albeit with reservations), and the 1969 OAU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa. Uganda is also a party to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. Uganda is also a party to CERD, ICCPR, CEDAW, CRC, CMW, and CRPD; as well as to the ACHPR and its Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, and the ACRWC. Pledges In 2011, Uganda stated that it had established an International Humanitarian Law Committee with the main objective of promoting ratification and domestication of the various treaties to enhance continued refugee protection in Uganda.275 The government of Uganda went further in making pledges relevant to the ending of statelessness at both the High-Level Segment on Statelessness in October 2019276 and the Global Refugee Forum in December 2019.277 These were: (i) accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (ii) finalise and approve the National Action Plan to serve as the national strategy to eradicate statelessness in the country by 2024, (iii) ensure that communities present in Uganda since before 1926 are recognized as citizens (including the Maragoli, Benet, Ugandan-Asian and other unrecognised communities); (iv) insert a safeguard in its nationality law to grant nationality to children born on the territory who would otherwise be stateless; (v) introduce a law reform to prevent denial or attribution of nationality at birth on discriminatory grounds; and (vi) complete a legal study on statelessness and citizenship in order to better understand and address the factors leaving certain populations stateless or at risk of statelessness and to support comprehensive legal and constitutional reform. Refugee status and identity documents Applicable law: Refugee Act 2006, supplemented by the Refugees Regulations, 2010. 273 Uganda: Refugee Policy Review Framework Country Summary as at 30 June 2020 , UNHCR, March 2022 https://reliefweb.int/report/uganda/uganda-refugee-policy-review-framework-country-summary-30-june-2020march-2022 274 Uganda: Brief on the Management of Forced Displacement, Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat for the Great Lakes, March 2022 https://www.redssgreatlakes.org/. 275 ‘PLEDGES 2011: Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons’, UNHCR ministerial meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Geneva, Palais des Nations, 7-8 December 2011) available with other resources at https://www.unhcr.org/ministerial-meeting.html 276 Complete list on UNHCR website: https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/results-of-the-high-level-segment-onstatelessness/. 277 Pledges made at the Global Refugee Forum; https://globalcompactrefugees.org/channel/pledges-contributions. 74 see Excel spreadsheet available at