A/HRC/28/42 Uganda: multi-stakeholder dialogue on rights-based approaches to maternal and child mortality 54. High mortality rates among women and young children remain a major challenge in Uganda. The country also has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the world. 55. Since 2013, the OHCHR office in Uganda, together with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Ministry of Health, has been supporting a multistakeholder dialogue aimed at promoting a human rights-based, participatory and inclusive approach in the national effort to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality. The initiative began with a regional workshop, held in Malawi in November 2013, which convened representatives of governments, national human rights institutions, civil society and United Nations entities from Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania to explore ways to apply rights-based approaches to maternal and child mortality in their respective national contexts. 56. In follow-up to the workshop, OHCHR commissioned an assessment of the health and human rights situations of women and children in Uganda, and presented it in November 2014 to a national-level multi-stakeholder group organized in Kampala jointly with UNFPA, the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health. In addition to representatives of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, the Ministry of Finance and the Office of the First Lady, and district-level officials, the group also included parliamentarians, representatives of private health-care providers, civil society, the Uganda Human Rights Commission and the United Nations. The group considered the main findings of the OHCHR assessment and identified action points to support maternal and child health, including: advocacy for law reform and implementation of legislation (Penal Law, Marriage and Divorce Act and Death Registration Act); advocacy for greater participation in the State budget process; generation of more and better quality disaggregated data; and inclusion of human rights training in the curricula for health workers. The Government of Uganda committed itself to integrating human rights into upcoming planning activities, including the preparation of the National Development Plan. 57. The process has been helpful in bringing a wide range of stakeholders together and has served to raise awareness among civil society and government authorities concerning more fully embracing an inclusive and participatory approach to planning and decisionmaking. It is expected that the methodologies tested and developed under the project may become part of the standard national planning process and be replicated in other sectors. United Republic of Tanzania: combating the exclusion of and violence against people with albinism 58. In the United Republic of Tanzania, people with albinism have long faced discrimination, exclusion and outright rejection by their families and society at large. Many also suffer from physical violence, as they are hunted down, mutilated and their amputated body parts used in witchcraft rituals. That extreme social exclusion has a devastating impact on children with albinism, who often find themselves unable to attend school because of discrimination, bullying and violence. 59. The authorities have taken measures to combat those crimes, and special centres have been set up under the auspices of civil society to provide safe havens for children with albinism. While welcoming those steps, OHCHR has continued to voice concern about the risk of isolation and institutionalization of those children, and emphasized the urgent need to reinforce the justice system in response to those crimes. People with albinism are often unable to access justice for the crimes committed against them and unwilling to testify for fear of reprisal and further victimization. 14