106 Kabumba/Application of African Union (human rights) law in Uganda Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the African Charter,101 (Ecosoc Guidelines) in determining a matter implicating the right to health in Uganda.102 The foregoing enumeration and analysis suggests that AU law has made some inroads into the jurisprudence of Uganda courts. As Table 1 below shows, different kinds of AU law have had different fortunes in this regard, with the African Charter and the African Children’s Charter appearing to have had the most impact. However, the references to the African Children’s Charter have been mainly pro forma, formulaic and in passing – being in the nature of a standard recitation of the Charter, part of a statement of the ‘best interests’ principle, as a preamble to the determination of family causes. Table 1: Frequency of citation of AU law by Ugandan courts Institution, case law or instrument Number of cases in which cited AU 0 African Charter 12 AU Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption 1 African Children’s Charter 8 Maputo Protocol 3 Democracy Charter 2 African Commission jurisprudence 3 FoE Declaration 1 Ecosoc Guidelines 1 African Children’s Rights Committee jurisprudence 0 African Court jurisprudence 0 Total references 31 In the next part, we assess the extent to which the laws of other regional integration efforts have been relied on in Ugandan cases, as a means of placing into context the experience of AU law in this respect. 4 4.1 COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES The European Union EU law has been referred to on a number of occasions, especially in the context of commercial litigation. Aside from a number of passing 101 102 Adopted on 24 October 2011. At paras 19-32.