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Outreach in Uganda

In 2006/07 the IBA carried a number of outreach activities on the Uganda situation before the ICC by conducting in-country workshops and seminars as well as by issuing a press release calling on the Government of Uganda to meet its obligations under the Rome Statute and by supporting the establishment of a Working Group of lawyers on ICC implementing legislation. Furthermore a representative of the Uganda Law Society was invited at the IBA Annual Conference in Singapore (October 2007) to present on the impact of IBA outreach activities in Uganda. 

The first IBA outreach initiative in Uganda (February 2006) brought together almost 100 lawyers, members of civil society, academics and traditional leaders. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the place of the ICC within the broader international justice system and to discuss the impact of the ICC investigations and arrest warrants in the context of Uganda specifically.  In the panel presentations by prominent Uganda lawyers, representatives of the Human Rights Commission, the Amnesty Commission, and civil society and in the broader group discussions, participants reflected on the work of the ICC in Uganda to date.  Click here for Agenda of the February 2006 workshop

At the workshop, participants recommended that lawyers should play an active role in analysing the implications of implementing the Rome Statute into domestic law in addition to disseminating information on the place of the ICC within the Ugandan context. As a result, the IBA is supporting a working group of lawyers established by the Uganda Law Society to consider these issues further. In April 2006, the IBA and the Uganda Law Society co-hosted the first meeting of the working group on implementing legislation. Click here for Agenda

A two-day consultative workshop was organised in Lira in November 2006 in collaboration with the Uganda Law Society. This event was later followed by a Workshop on Implementing the Rome Statute which took place in Kampala (March 2007). Feedback on both workshops together with an in-depth analysis on the ICC debate in Uganda is provided in the second IBA Outreach Report of May 2007.


Click here for the second IBA Outreach Report [May 2007]