Report Overview

Uganda ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1985 and subsequently several other United Nations Human Rights conventions relevant to the rights of women. These conventions include the 1987 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the 1995 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the 1986 Convention against Torture and the 1990 Convention on the Rights of the Child.

At the regional level, Uganda signed the African Union Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa and ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa