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Refugee Law Project

Plot 9 Perryman Gardens, Old Kampala P.O. Box 33903 Kampala, Uganda Email RLP

• Mission
• Advocacy
• Information/ News from the Refugee Law Project
  • Press Releases
  • Reports
  • Blogs
• Dissemination
  • AdvocacyNet
  • In the Media Highlights

Mission

The Refugee Law Project (RLP) seeks to ensure fundamental human rights for all asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced persons within Uganda. RLP’s activities focus on research, advocacy, legal aid, counseling, education, and training.  Its staff and volunteers believe that the Ugandan population and government must favor the establishment of the rights of all refugees and that a legal basis for these rights must exist within Uganda. RLP advocates that these rights must be fully enforceable and that displaced persons must be made aware of their rights and empowered to act when they are violated.

• Topics: Human Rights, Reconstruction, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Education
• Area: Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi
• Founded: 1999

Advocacy

• RLP provides free legal services, psychosocial support, pushes for law reform, improves information flows to refugees and promotes knowledge of refugee issues among legal professionals. For more information about these activities, visit RLP's Legal Aid and Connselling page.

• RLP trains and educates a variety of different groups and individuals on issues concerning migration. It also acts as a consultant for various organizations.

• RLP engages in research and advocacy efforts to improve the condition of refugees.

• The Refugee Law Project produced a report, titled 'A Drop in the Ocean,' in an effort to highlight the needs of the world's refugees. The report claims that thousands of refugees seeking asylum in the Ugandan capital of Kampala are being denied assistance and protection by the Ugandan government and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

• The RLP urges Kampala's civil society to help Uganda's urban refugee population by offering language courses and degree certification. These, it says, would make it easier for the refugees to apply for jobs, educate their children, and integrate them more fully into society, allowing them to "live life like any other Kampala city resident."

Information/ News from RLP

• Press Releases

RLP's website hosts their past articles and press releases.

• Reports

RLP has produced various resources such as working papers, seminars and speeches, special reports, briefing papers, and legal materials.

• Blogs

In 2005, AP sent Eun Ha Kim of the Georgetown University Law Center to help RLP conduct interviews with refugees and help with fieldwork in border towns as part of the policy-formation efforts for the RLP. Read Eun Ha’s blog.

Dissemination

• AdvocacyNet

July 27, 2005
Uganda and UN Deny Assistance to Urban Refugees in Kampala, Charges Ugandan Advocacy Group

• In the Media Highlights

October 5, 2006
Northern Uganda: European Union leadership needed as peace talks remain fragile
Reuters

August 28, 2006
Britain 'blocking peace deal' for Uganda
The Guardian

March 15, 2004
Rwandan Refugees Accuse Gacaca of Bias
The East African

February 6, 2004
Profile: Uganda's LRA rebels
BBC

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