{"id":35060,"date":"2022-02-28T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=35060"},"modified":"2022-03-01T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T09:06:58","slug":"ugandas-national-id-legislation-its-compliance-with-international-human-rights-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/ugandas-national-id-legislation-its-compliance-with-international-human-rights-obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda’s National ID Legislation & its compliance with International Human Rights obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The aim of this legal opinion is to analyze a recent legal measure adopted by the<\/span><\/span> government of Uganda whose main purpose was to\u00a0 harmonize and consolidate<\/span><\/span> the law on registrations of persons and to provide for a registration of individuals, in<\/span><\/span> terms of its compliance with the international human rights obligations acquired<\/span><\/span> by Uganda. This paper will revise the legal dispositions of both the Registrations<\/span><\/span> of Persons Act and the Statutory Instruments – by means of which the Act is<\/span><\/span> implemented \u2013 and determine if they fulfill the international standards set forth<\/span><\/span> in the International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other<\/span><\/span> international treaties. In addition, this legal research will present a formal proposal<\/span><\/span> to the government of Uganda, specifically to the Parliament and the National<\/span><\/span> Identification & Registration Authority, which looks to amend a set of sections<\/span><\/span> of the aforementioned legislation, in order to assure that the national digital ID<\/span><\/span> system (<\/span><\/span>Ndaga Muntu<\/span><\/span>) becomes a free and inclusive mechanisms for all Ugandan<\/span><\/span> population.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to do so, this paper will implement the following structure: (i) the first<\/span><\/span> chapter will start by giving a general contextualization of the national digital ID<\/span><\/span> system in Uganda and will also include a brief summary of the previous research<\/span><\/span> studies that have been carried out on this subject; (ii) the second chapter will<\/span><\/span> continue by giving a general overview of the main criticisms originated in the<\/span><\/span> law governing the<\/span><\/span> Ndaga Muntu<\/span><\/span>; (iii) the third chapter will provide a legal analysis<\/span><\/span> on the legislation regulating the<\/span><\/span> Ndaga Muntu<\/span><\/span> and its compliance with the<\/span><\/span> international human rights obligations on economic, social and cultural rights<\/span><\/span> and the right to privacy and data protection and (v) the fourth and final chapter<\/span><\/span> will present a proposal to amend the legislation to guarantee that all people living<\/span><\/span> in Uganda can access, in an inclusive, safety and easy way, the national digital ID <\/span><\/span>system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Download: https:\/\/www.unwantedwitness.org\/download\/Legal-Analysis-of-Ugandas-National-ID-Legislation.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aim of this legal opinion is to analyze a recent legal measure adopted by the government of Uganda whose main purpose was to\u00a0 harmonize and consolidate the law on registrations of persons and to provide for a registration of individuals, in terms of its compliance with the international human rights obligations acquired by Uganda. […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-ngos-and-experts","type-reports","item-year-683","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-gender","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35061,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35060\/revisions\/35061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}