Capital : Kampala

Land Area :236,040 sq km

Head of Government : President HE Mr Yoweri Museveni (since 26 January 1986)

Population : 27,269,482 (July 2005 est.)

Major Languages : English, Ganda or Luganda, other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic

Major Religion(s) : Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%

Date of Joining : 1962

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Articles from CHRI Newsletter:

• Between International Justice and Domestic Peace: the Dilemma of the ICC in Northern Uganda, Ejoyi M.C. Xavier, Visiting Fellow, International Centre for Transitional Justice, CHRI Newsletter, Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2005.
• Uganda at the crossroads of constitutional democracy, Ejoyi M.C. Xavier, CHRI Newsletter, Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 2004.

Articles from E-Magazine:

• Police to arrest erring passengers, Commonwealth Police Watch E-Magazine, Vol. 1, December 2004.
• Police to arrest public smokers, Commonwealth Police Watch E-Magazine, Vol. 2, April 2005.
• Police force ranks highest in corruption, Commonwealth Police Watch E-Magazine, Vol. 3, June 2005.
• Bursting at the seams, by Evelyn Kiapi Matsamura, reproduced for CHRI, Commonwealth Police Watch E-Magazine, Vol. 3, June 2005.

Articles from RTI Updates:

• Parliament To Debate Access To Information Bill, The New Vision, 15 April 2004.
• Government to Get Information Chiefs, Africa News, From New Vision, 7 May 2004.

Bills/Laws/Acts from RTI:

• Analysis of the Access to Information Bill (No. 7/2004) in the context of engendering an Open, Transparent and Accountable Government in Uganda, Coalition for Freedom of Information (COFI ) /
  Human Rights Network (Uganda) (HURINET (U)), 6 December 2004.
• The Access to Information Bill, 2004, (No. 7/2004).
• An analysis of the Uganda draft Access to Information Bill (Bill No 7 of 2004), Submitted by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, May 2004.
• The Access To Information Bill, 2004, MP Abdu Katuntu.
• An analysis of the Uganda draft Access to Information Bill 2004 (Developed by MP Abdu Katuntu), Submitted by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, March 2004.
• Memorandum on the the Ugandan draft Access to Information Bill, 2004 by Article 19, Global Campaign for Free Expression London, March 2004.

Civil Society Submissions and Declarations:

• The role of civil society in police reform in Uganda, Presentation at Idasa conference - Policing in post-conflict Africa, Pretoria, March 2006, Daniel Woods, CHRI.
• The Final Communiqué of the 2005 Commonwealth Human Rights Forum (CHRF), 21 November 2005.