Press Releases & Events Documentation
The RLP issues press releases on numerous topics with some being published in the Ugandan dailies
Press Statement for International Women's Day 2025
Today we join the world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) under the theme: “Accelerating Gender Equality for Action”:” This day is an important reminder of the struggles for gender equali...
2024 World Refugee Day Statement
Theme: “In Solidarity with Refugees”
World Refugee Day (WRD) is celebrated every year on 20th June and it’s a day dedicated by the United Nations to all the refugees all over the world. It’s a day ...
International Day for Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Pre and post-independent Uganda has gone through periods of political instability characterised by armed conflicts, resulting in gross human rights violations. The years of conflict disrupted develop...
Govt asked to implement transitional justice policy - Daily Monitor Supplement
Pre and post-independent Uganda has gone through periods of political instability characterised by armed conflicts, resulting in gross human rights violations. The years of conflict disrupted develop...
2023 World Refugee Day Statement
THEME: HOPE AWAY FROM HOME – “A World Where Refugees are always Included”
International Human Rights Day 2022
Dignity ,Freedom And Justice For All December 10th, 2022 marks the 75th commemoration of the celebrated Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), being the day the milestone document was brought t...
Access to the digital environment for children: Building safer and inclusive digital spaces for refugee children with special needs and disability.
Refugee Law Project (RLP) joins the rest of the world to commemorate the Day of the African Child (DAC) 2023 under the theme ‘Protecting and Promoting Children’s Rights in the Digital Era’. The DAC wa...
ISSUE 1: Jan - April 2023
QUARTERLY REVIEW - ISSUE 1: Jan - April 2023 UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking visits Film launch “KURUDISHA NGUVU” (Bringing back the strength ) MtM builds our capacity in hosting Human Rights Fil...
World Refugee Day June 20 2022
Global Theme: Whoever. Wherever. Whenever. Everyone has the right to seek safety. Every 20 June, the world celebrates World Refugee Day to honor refugees worldwide for their strength and resilience. T...
Commemorating the Day of the African Child, 16th June 2022
Eliminating Harmful Practices against Children: A call for a Renewed Commitment to Promoting the Inclusion of Children with Special Needs. Today marks 31 years since the African Union declared the 16 ...
Redefining Our Relationship With Nature
World Environment day is always commemorated every 5th of June. This year the theme is “Only one Earth” which was the motto for the 1972 Stockholm conference and it reminds us of actions we can take t...
Sustainable Tomorrow Without A Guaranteed Today? A call For Renewed Commitments Towards Gender Equality In A Time Of Existential Threats
It's 8 March 2022, and it's International Women's Day. First commemorated by Uganda in 1984, IWD garners support for women's rights and re-affirms the country’s commitments to ensuring that all women ...
Grow food crops or plant trees? The binary dilemma of sustainable forest production and consumption
It’s 21 March 2022, and it’s International Day of Forests (IDF). How about a glimpse of uncomfortable reminders! Whereas forests cover 31 per cent of the earth’s surface, 32 million acres of forest ar...
Sustainable tomorrow without a guaranteed today? A call for renewed commitments towards gender equality in a time of existential threats
Uganda’s commendable milestones in advancing women's rights politically, socially, and economically, include Uganda's Parish Development Model, which ringfenced 30 per cent of resources towards women'...
PRESS STATEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2021
National Theme: Rebuilding Better: Resilient Institutions Key to Covid-19 Recovery.
International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2021
TV talk show in commemoration of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities 3rd December 2021.
THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD DAY AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2021
July 30th is the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, commemorated internationally under the auspices of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This year’s commemoration theme - Victims’ V...
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (Theme: Support Torture Survivors to Report and Access Justice?)
Refugee Law Project joins survivors of torture to mark the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The UN General Assembly proclaimed 26 June the United Nations Internationa...
World Refugee Day 2021
This year’s theme for World Refugee Day is Together. We Heal, Learn and Shine. It is a unique theme, as it celebrates the courage and resilience of refugees who mostly flee their homes due to war, per...
Commemorating The Day Of The African Child 2021
Refugee Law Project (RLP) joins the global community to commemorate the Day of the African child, today 16th June 2021 under the theme: “30 years after the adoption of the Charter: accelerate implemen...
COVID-19 is a threat to Gender Equality - Let’s #ChooseToChallenge
Historical Glimpse: It's March 8, 2021, and today we hold the 44th commemoration since the UN officially recognised International Women's Day (IWD) in 1977 to recognise achievements in the struggle fo...
What will it take to achieve mental health for all in Uganda?
The Refugee Law Project joins the rest of the world to commemorate the World Mental Health Day on the theme ‘Mental Health for All; Greater Investment - Greater Access, Everyone, Everywhere’. The them...
Shaping Peace Together
Every 21st day of September, the World comes together to commemorate the International Day of Peace. As noted by the United Nations, this year it has been clearer than ever that we are not each other’...
20 years of expressed international commitment against trafficking in persons: A critical stock-taking
In December 1998, the United Nations General Assembly (in its Resolution 53/111) established an open-ended and ad-hoc intergovernmental committee to develop a comprehensive international convention ag...
Preventing Trafficking in Persons in Uganda
Trafficking in Persons remains a pervasive global issue with significant consequences for the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of victims/survivors. Pushed into trafficking situations by a wide ran...
Shaping Peace Together
Every 21st day of September, the World comes together to commemorate the International Day of Peace. As noted by the United Nations, this year it has been clearer than ever that we are not each other’...
No Justification for Torture - Press statement for International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
As an institution working with forced migrants and people affected by conflict, we interface with and support victims of torture by providing medical rehabilitation and psychosocial support. The 26th ...
Inactivity is Perpetration - A Press Statement on the World Refugee Day 20 June 2020
As a refugee serving organisation with 20 years of unstinting support to forced migrants and 20 years of continuous advocacy on issues of forced migration, we warmly welcome the theme of this year’s W...
What if we responded to sexual violence in conflict as an existential threat?
19 June 2020 marks the 5th year since the United Nations General Assembly established (through resolution A/RES/69/293) the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict to sust...
Child-friendly Justice in Unfriendly Environments? A call for practical solutions for vulnerable young people on the Day of the African Child, 2020
It’s 44 years since black South African students from Soweto protested the 1953 Bantu Education Act (also known as Education of black people), a predatory law that ‘legalised’ enforcement of racially ...
Hosts Must Work #WithRefugees in Protecting the Environment - World Refugee Day 2019
Since June 20 was declared World Refugee Day by the UN General Assembly in 2000 the number of refugees and other forced migrants has escalated dramatically. 105 years since the World Day of Migrants a...
Could YOU be a Torturer? Statement on the International Day in Support for Victims of Torture
“Torture is real, speak up, take actions”, the theme of this year’s UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (every 26th June since 1998) rallies all of us, whether government, civil soci...
Press Statement for International Day for Elimination of Sexual Violence in conflict Final
On the fifth International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, coming shortly after the United Nations passed Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2467 in April this year, we reflec...
A Call to Fight Air Pollution: RLP’s Statement on World Environment Day (5 June 2019)
It’s barely 45 years since World Environment Day (WED) was established. Since then, many countries have embraced the day as ‘people’s day’ with concrete actions in tackling environmental degradation. ...
Thank You Message to the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda on Securing Refugee-Host Relations in Northern Uganda
On Saturday 27 April 2019, Refugee Law Project (RLP) joined the citizens of the Netherlands living in Uganda and elsewhere in celebrating King's Day. This important national holiday in the Netherlands...
Empowering women and girls through innovative approaches require paradigm shifts in attitudes and practices
It’s International Women’s Day again! While 8 March 2019 marks the 44th commemoration since the United Nations adopted the International Women’s Day (IWD) in 1975, it was first convened in 1909 in the...
International Day for PWDs
Ensuring inclusion and equality for Persons with Disabilities requires change of attitude for all, and political will.Refugee Law Project (RLP) joins Uganda and the rest of the world in commemorating ...
African Civil Society Stakeholders call for Global and Inclusive Justice
In commemoration of International Justice Day (17th July)
This statement is the outcome of extensive joint discussions and drafting by the five sponsoring organisations namely:- Centre for the Study of...
This statement is the outcome of extensive joint discussions and drafting by the five sponsoring organisations namely:- Centre for the Study of...
A Renewed Promise for Peace and Justice: The Reinstatement of Uganda's Amnesty Act 2000
A press statement by the Refugee Law Project commending the government of Uganda for reinstating Part II of the Amnesty Act 2000
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Court rules that all Ugandans have a right to privacy and dignity: Tremendous boost to constitutional rights and protection of sexual and other minorities.
"....In considering whether the Rolling Stone's publication of alleged homosexuals' names, addresses and preferred social hang-outs constituted a violation of the applicant's constitutional rights, th...
The Rise & Fall of Human Rights in Uganda?: Human Rights Day, 10th December 2010
"...indicators which suggest that Uganda's human rights record may if anything be in decline....we should ask ourselves whether,a year from now, it will even be possible to publish a statement such as...
In Support of Co-ordinated Governance for National Reconciliation: International Day of Peace; 21 September 2010
"......as part of integrating conflict resolution into government institutional frameworks, Uganda needs to seriously reconsider the impacts of its current practice of rampant decentralization...........
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 r...
In Pursuit of an End to Impunity A review of the review conference of the ICC
...“Is the ICC the most effective instrument with which to address impunity?”.....
A press release by the Refugee Law Project - On the occasion of Sweden and Norway's national day(15 June 2010).The con...
A press release by the Refugee Law Project - On the occasion of Sweden and Norway's national day(15 June 2010).The con...
EMBRACE DIVERSITY; End Discrimination In Uganda!
A press release by the CSCHRCL - Human Rights Day (10 December 2009). “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” is the bold opening statement of Article 1 of the Universal Decl...
Giving With One Hand and Taking with the Other: HowForced Migrants living with HIV/AIDS are affected by Legislation
".....While Uganda is widely celebrated as a country withmodel refugee legislation, and was once also regarded as a model for combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic, we note with deepening concern that when ...
Transitional Justice is key to addressing the challenge of mass displacement in Africa
A press release made by Refugee Law Project ahead of the African Union special summit on refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees in Africa , 19 October 2009)
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No Body is Immune: Gender Against Men
A press release made in connection to the RLP video documentary, "Gender Against Men", that was launched on 4 June 2009. The documentary explores the hidden world of sexual and gender based violence a...