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International | International treaties adherence

Uganda is party to many human rights and humanitarian law treaties as well as those falling within the domain of international criminal and refugee law. This includes adherence to the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the 1977 Additional Protocols to the four 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Treaty List

International Humanitarian Law	Adherence date	Commentary (including relevant reservations, derogations and declarations)
Geneva Conventions I, II, III, IV 1949	18.05.64
Additional Protocol I 1977	13.03.91
Additional Protocol II 1977	13.03.91
Additional Protocol III 2005	21.05.08
Hague Convention 1954	--
Hague Protocol 1954	--
Hague Protocol 1999	--
ENMOD Convention 1976	--
International Human rights Law	Adherence date	Commentary (including relevant reservations, derogations and declarations)
ICERD 1965	21.11.80
ICCPR 1966	21.01.87
ICCPR - OP1 1966	14.11.95
ICCPR - OP2 1989	--
ICESCR 1966	21.06.95
CEDAW 1979	22.07.85
OP-CEDAW 1999	--
CAT 1984	03.11.86
OP-CAT 2002	--
CRC 1990	17.08.90
CRC Optional Protocol Armed Conflict 2000	06.05.02
CRC Optional Protocol Sale of Children 2000	21.06.01
ICRMW 1990	14.11.95
Disability Rights Convention 2006	25.09.08
Convention on Enforced Disappearances [not yet in force]	--	Signature only on 06.02.07
Weapons	Adherence date	Commentary (including relevant reservations, derogations and declarations)
Geneva Gas Protocol 1925	24.05.65
Biological Weapons Convention 1972	12.05.92
Chemical Weapons Convention 1993	30.11.01
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons 1980	14.11.95
CCW Protocol I 1980	14.11.95
CCW Protocol II 1980	14.11.95
CCW Protocol III 1980	14.11.95
CCW Protocol IV 1995	--
CCW Protocol II (amended) 1996	--
CCW Amendment 2001	--
CCW Protocol V 2003	--
Ottawa Treaty 1997	25.02.99
Convention on Cluster Munitions 2008	--	Signature only on 03.12.08
Refugees	Adherence date	Commentary (including relevant reservations, derogations and declarations)
Refugee Convention 1951	27.09.76
Refugee Protocol 1967	27.09.76
International criminal law	Adherence date	Commentary (including relevant reservations, derogations and declarations)
Slavery Convention 1926	--
Genocide Convention 1948	14.11.95
Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity 1968	--
ICC Rome Statute 1998	14.06.02
Terrorism	Adherence date	Commentary (including relevant reservations, derogations and declarations)
Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 1979	05.11.03
Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 1999	05.11.03
Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 1997	05.11.03

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Amnesty International Report 2008

Human Rights Watch, “'Get the Gun!' Human Rights Violations by Uganda’s National Army in Law Enforcement Operations in Karamoja Region", September 2007