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Local Integration as a Durable Solution?
(Institute of Development Policy, 2017-12)
Despite multiple attempts over the last 15 years, Uganda has been unable to find a durable solution for a group of approximately 17,000 Rwandan refugees living on its soil. The cessation of their refugee status has been ...
Reluctant to return? The primacy of social networks in the repatriation of Rwandan refugees in Uganda
(Refugee Studies Centre, 2014-08)
Burundi refugees’ influx: A threat or a blessing to Uganda’s social service delivery.
(2018-09)
Back Ground: Social Service delivery to refugees is part of the human rights promotion interventions and in Uganda, it is enshrined1 in the Refugees Act 2006 and Refugees Regulations 2010, which are part of the global ...
The 2006 refugees act at 15 in Uganda- an Appraisal
(19 ISIL YB Int'l Human. & Refugee L., 18, 220., 2018)
The Refugees Act was passed in 2006. It has been praised as a progressive law that meets international protection standards. However, after fifteen years, a number of gaps still exist. These gaps have existed since its ...
Respecting her international obligations? Analyzing Rwanda’s 2014 Law Relating to refugees
(Institute of Development Policy (IOB),, 2023)
Rwanda enacted the 1966 presidential decree on the reintegration of refugees and later the 1984 ministerial decree on identity papers for refugees as its first laws in dealing with refugees. However, the above decrees were ...
IGAD and forced migration response in the Horn of Africa: Prospects and obstacles
(Institute of Development Policy (IOB),, 2023)
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has taken a role of responding to forced migration in the Horn of Africa where wars, conflicts and disasters have generated refugees, asylum seekers, Internally Displaced ...