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Calendar of Events

Publications

High Commissioner's Strategic Management Plan 2008-2009
Human Rights in Action
Humanitarian Appeal 2008 
A Handbook for NGOs

Uganda


Uganda 

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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 the Child
Concluding observations (2005)

Committee Against Torture
Concluding observations (2005)

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2004)

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2003)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2002)

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database  


OHCHR in Uganda

OHCHR’s Uganda country office was established in July 2005, initially to protect and empower populations in the conflict-affected areas of northern Uganda. By September 2007, OHCHR had six field offices (Gulu, Pader, Lira, Kitgum, Soroti, Moroto) in addition to its office in Kampala.
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Contact Information

Headquarters

Capacity Building and Field Operations Branch
Tel. +41 22 928 9118
Geneva, Switzerland

Africa Unit
Tel. +41 22 928 9682
Geneva, Switzerland


Field

Tel: (256) 41 233 440
Kampala, Uganda
Email: mkohonen@ohchr.org

Links

External Links

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OHCHR in the field

Map of OHCHR field presences

Regional Offices

Country Offices

Human Rights Components of Peace Missions

Human Rights Advisors

Action 2

Technical Cooperation Programme

National Human Rights Institutions