5. Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN) is a coalition of child focused organizations including community based, national and international organizations working for the welfare and the rights of children in Uganda. UCRNN envisions a society where children’s rights are realized and exists to promote a coordinated action for the promotion and protection of children’s rights in Uganda. 6. 7. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level. ISI’s mission is to promote inclusive societies by realising and protecting everyone’s right to a nationality. The Institute has made over 80 country-specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons. ISI has also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 38th UPR Sessions. This submission focuses on: I. Ethnic discrimination in nationality law II. Statelessness and forced migration III. Birth registration and children’s right to nationality IV. Digital ID and access to rights Previous UPR of Uganda under the First and Second Cycle 8. Uganda was previously reviewed during the 12th and the 26th session of the UPR in 2011 and 2016, respectively. 9. During the 12th session, Uganda received the following recommendations: I. II. Strengthen and further develop measures to ensure that all children born within the national territory are registered (Ghana).6 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Slovakia).7 Uganda accepted the first and noted the second recommendation. 10. During the 26th session, Uganda received the following recommendations: I. II. Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Panama).8 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of A/HRC/19/16, recommendation 111.72. A/HRC/19/16, recommendation 112.12. 8 A/HRC/34/10, recommendation 117.39. 6 7 2