Legal Materials: Ugandan Law
We have attempted to make legal references of relevance to forced migration and justice available. These may include laws, acts, policies, and drafts in the public domain, that all interested stakeholders should have easy access to, but unfortunately is not often the case.
If you believe that certain legal documents of specific importance to displacement issues, but is not easily available online, should be placed on these pages, please contact to make your suggestion. We cannot guarantee that we will host the legal text, but we will do our best to get hold of it or else point you to an alternate location online.
Legal Texts hosted at RLP
- The Control of Alien Refugees Act, 19601 [ PDF: 8.5MB ]
- The Immigration Act, 19692 [ PDF: 14.2MB ]
- The Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act, 1999 [ PDF: 113KB ]
- The Refugees Act, 20063 [ PDF: 1.7MB ]
- The National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons, 2004 [ PDF: 1.8MB ]
- Convention and protocol relating to the status of refugees, 1951 [ PDF: 302KB ]
- OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 1969 [ PDF: 24KB ]
- Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement [ PDF: 59KB ]
1 The Control of Alien Refugees Act was superceded by the Refugees Act that was passed on 23 March 2006. It is stored here for academic reference.
2 The Immigration Act was superceded by the The Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Conrol Act that was passed in 1999. It is stored here for academic reference.
3 RLP prepared a critique of the Act. Please check under Legal Critiques by RLP below
See also:
Legal Critiques by RLP
- The Refugees Act (2006) Critique [ PDF: 309KB ]