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• Amnesty International on Uganda--Brief Profile (New York and Washington, DC)
  
  
• Bibliography of Research on Uganda Women, 1986-2001. Compiled by Shela Jhaveri and Margaret Snyder. (via Women of Uganda Network, Kampala)
  An excerpt from a book edited by Joy Kwesiga and Aili Tripp, The new women's movement in Uganda (forthcoming in 2002).
  
  
• Buganda Home Page: Uganda Constitutions (Mukasa E. Ssemakula, Wayne State University, Ohio)
  • Main Page
    Note: this website was last updated in 2002.
  • Buganda Constitution (1962)
  • Uganda Constitution (1962)
  • 1967 Uganda Constitution Excerpts
  • 1995 Uganda Constitution Excerpts
  
  
• Conciliation Resources: Protracted conflict, elusive peace: initiatives to end conflict in northern Uganda (2002) Accord: an international review of peace initiatives. (Online) ; no. 11 (London, UK)
  "Accord is a resource for diplomats, mediators and negotiators; relief, development and human rights workers; journalists and academics."
  
  
• The Constitution of Uganda on the Internet
  • Abridged and Simplified Version of the Constitution of Uganda (1995, 2005 amendments) 105 pages in PDF format. Prepared by the Uganda Law Reform Commission, 2006. (via The Parliament of the Republic of Uganda, Kampala)
  • Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 138 pages in PDF format (via The Electoral Commission of Uganda)
  
  
• Elections in Uganda
  • The Electoral Commission, Uganda (Kampala)
    An official site of the "independent" commission, with news and links to information on political parties and presidential candidates.
    
    
  
  
• Enter Uganda.Com (New Vision Printing and Publishing Corp., Kampala, Uganda)
  A Uganda portal site for the general public...with news, contact information and links for businesses, tourist information, etc.
  
  
• Forum for Democratic Change (Kampala, Uganda)
  The official website of the political party of Kiiza Besigye.
  
  
• Human Rights and Peace Centre of the Faculty of Law, Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• Human Rights Watch on Uganda (New York & Washington, DC)
  • HRW on Uganda: latest news and reports
    
    
  • In hope and fear: Uganda's presidential and parliamentary polls (January-February 2006) Pre-election "Backgrounder". (HTML or PDF formats)
  • Uganda, 2002. In Human Rights Watch World Report 2003. (Online).
  • Just die quietly: domestic violence and women's vulnerability to HIV in Uganda. (August 2003) By Lisa Karanja et al. Human Rights Watch ; vol. 15, no. 15(A). -- New York ; Washington, DC : HRW, 2003. (HTML or PDF formats)
  • Abducted and abused: renewed conflict in northern Uganda. (July 2003) By Annette Weber et al. Human Rights Watch ; vol. 15, no. 12(A). -- New York ; Washington, DC : HRW, 2003. (HTML or PDF formats)
  • Stolen children: abduction and recruitment in northern Uganda. (March 2003) By Jo Becker et al. Human Rights Watch ; vol. 15, no. 7(A). -- New York ; Washington, DC : HRW, 2003. (HTML or PDF formats)
  • "Uganda in eastern DRC: fueling political and ethnic strife," March 2001 By Suliman Baldo et al., Africa Division, HRW. Human Rights Watch ; vol. 13, no. 2(A)
  • "Uganda: not a level playing field, government violations in the lead-up to the elections" (February 2001)
  • Uganda, 1999. In Human Rights Watch World Report 2000. (Online).
  • "Hostile to Democracy: The Movement System and Political Repression in Uganda," 1998-99 (Peter Bouckaert, Zachary Freeman et al., Africa Division, HRW)
  • Uganda, 1998-99. In Human Rights Watch World Report 1999. (Online).
  
  
• INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity in Uganda, May 2006 (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland and United Nations University)
  
  
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: Internally displaced persons in Uganda (1998--) Norwegian Refugee Council (Geneva, Switzerland)
  For each country in the IDP survey, the document collection includes an overall summary, population figures, social indicators, and some analyses.
  
  
• Isis Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Kampala, Uganda)
  The website includes only general information about Isis-WICCE programmes and their publications.
  
  
• International Criminal Court: Uganda (The Hague, The Netherlands)
  
  
• Kituo Cha Katiba -- East African Centre for Constitutional Development (Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
  • The site provides general information about the centre's programmes, as well as an archive of legal documents and instruments, a list of cases pending in Uganda, a list of holdings in the centre's library, maps, other related information.
  • Regional and national laws (constitutions, treaties, orders of council, etc.)
  
  
• Makerere University Faculty of Law (Kampala, Uganda)
  --Human Rights and Peace Centre

  "HURIPEC was set up to provide a focused intellectual and activist space to spearhead the promotion and protection of human rights and peace through a combination of teaching, research, documentation, public debate, seminars, and outreach programmes."

  --Refugee Law Project

  RLP Resources: Working Papers, Seminars, and Reports
  --including: Stakeholders' Dialogue--"Beyond Juba: Building Consensus on a Sustainable Peace Process in Uganda, December 1-3, 2006..." PDF format.

  
  
• myUganda (Kampala, Uganda)
  A general clearinghouse for things Ugandan on the Net and otherwise, including links to Uganda's government websites, a short list of major NGOs, current news reports, background information on Uganda, etc.
  
  
• National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) (Kampala, Uganda)
  Includes general information about NEMA, its activities and downloadable publications (ZIP files), and a newsletter. "[Established in 1995] NEMA is a semi-autonomous institution under the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment, legally established as the principal agency to implement the national policy for the management of the environment in Uganda."
  
  
• National Resistance Movement (NRM) (Kampala, Uganda)
  The official site of the political party of President Yoweri Museveni.
  
  
• Parliament of the Republic of Uganda Home Page (Kampala)
  General information, directories, and historical documents.
  
  
• Refugee Law Project of the Faculty of Law, Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• Republic of Uganda: Ministry of Local Government (Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• State House, Republic of Uganda Official Website (Kampala, Uganda)
  • Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Home Page
  • Parliament of Uganda (see above)
  • President of Uganda Unofficial. (via myUganda)
  • Vice President's Home Page Unofficial.
  
  
• Teaching peace, transforming conflict?: exploring participants' perceptions of the impact of informal peace education training in Uganda. by Anika May (2008) -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, 2008. via DSpace at Leiden University. (189 pages in PDF format)
  
  
• Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Kampala, Uganda)
  This official website includes a wealth of information about the activities of the bureau, links to web sites of several government ministries, and recent statistics in HTML format, including exerpts from the 2002 Population Census, information on education, health, labor, energy, migration, etc. In addition, the site includes a databank, with downloadable statistics in EXCEL format.
  
  
• Uganda: a country study. (Online) Area handbook. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress; US Department of the Army, 1990)
  The electronic version of the handbook, with chapters on history, geography, economy, society & culture, and bibliography.
  
  
• Uganda Web Page (University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Uganda (Geneva, Switzerland)
  See Research/Evaluation...Country Search.
  
  
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Uganda (2009)
  
  
• United States. Department of State: Uganda Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
  
  
• United States Embassy in Kampala, Uganda
  
  
• Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) (Kampala, Uganda)
  This site offers directories of prominent Ugandan women in all sectors of Ugandan society, news and opinions, documents on women's issues in Uganda, and related links. "WOUGNET's goal is to promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by women organisations and individuals for the better being of Ugandan women."