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The Refugee Law Project (RLP) is a human rights organization and NGO that was established in 1999 as an outreach project of the school of Law of Makerere University to address refugee rights in Uganda. [1] [2]
Prof Oloka-Onyango's Professorial Inaugural Lecture, entitled Ghosts & the Law, contained a detailed analysis of the origins, manifestations and intricacies of the Political Question Doctrine in Uganda and its closely related co-concept of Public Interest Litigation and together, their impact on Constitutionalism, the Doctrine of Separation of ...
On retirement in 1996, she conducted research on the extent to which refugees enjoy their rights in exile in Kenya and Uganda. She also founded or helped to found refugee legal aid organizations in several locations, including the Refugee Law Project in Uganda and AMERA (Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance) in Egypt , and worked with many ...
Refugee law is the branch of international law which deals with the rights and duties states have vis-a-vis refugees. There are differences of opinion among international law scholars as to the relationship between refugee law and international human rights law or humanitarian law .
The 1969 Refugee Convention has made some significant advances from the 1951 Refugee Convention. Discrimination against refugees is prohibited on the additional grounds of membership of a particular social group, nationality, or political opinion. These grounds were absent in the 1951 Refugee Convention.
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Uganda Map. Uganda is one of the largest refugee-hosting nations in the world, [1] [2] with 1,529,904 refugees (as of 28 February 2022 [3]).The vast influx of refugees is due to several factors in Uganda's neighboring countries, especially war and violence in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [4] and associated economic crisis and political instability in the region.
There are more than 113,000 refugees already living in the settlement. Kyaka II is managed by the UNHCR and the Ugandan Office of the Prime Minister's Department of Refugees (OPM). [4] Kiyaka II also receives a lot of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, such as the group of people called Ba Gegere Bahema, arrived in 2002-2008.