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The Refugee Law Project (RLP) seeks to ensure fundamental human rights for all asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced persons within Uganda. We envision a country that treats all people within its borders with the same standards of respect and social justice.
We work to see that all people living in Uganda, as specified under national and international law, are treated with the fairness and consideration due fellow human beings.

IASFM 13: Governing Migration

The 13th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) will be hosted by the Refugee Law Project, Kampala, Uganda from July 3^rd - 6^th, 2011. Abstracts are due by October 31, 2010.

This conference aims to explore key dimensions of the relationship between forms and tools of governance on the one hand and patterns and experiences of forced migration on the other.

Call For Papers: Read Details Here

THE INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (IATJ): Call for applications

The RLP in collaboration with the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN) has established an Institute for African Transitional Justice (IATJ).
The institute is pleased to announce its first short course on African Transitional Justice, taking place in Kampala, Uganda from 21^st - 27^th November 2010; focusing the theme "Addressing Transitional Justice in the Context of African Challenges".

Details and Call for Applications: See Here

Check out what we are doing:

The Refugee Law Project, under its video advocacy programme, has produced documentaries to show the work being done at RLP, as well as highlight the plight of forced migrants in Uganda.

RLP's 10 Years Anniversary Speeches

Read of what other viewers had to say on these documentaries HERE

Recent Publications:

* Press Release: MASS REMOVAL OF RWANDANS FROM UGANDAN REFUGEE SETTLEMENTS "... Reports indicate that those targeted in this manner were lured with the promise that they would be granted refugee status and food. Instead they were met by a large number of Ugandan police who rounded them up and forced them onto trucks......."
IRRI and RLP

* Report: A Dangerous Impasse: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda
CITIZENSHIP AND DISPLACEMENT IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION WORKING PAPER NO. 4, June 2010
International Refugee Rights Initiative, Refugee Law Project and Social Science Research Council

* Press Release: Rwandan Refugees to lose their status by December 2011: Is Rwanda safe for all its citizens to return?
A press release by the Refugee Law Project - World Refugee Day(20 June 2010).

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