Culture is used to justify Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) by evoking traditional beliefs and practices about how women and girls should be treated. Some of these cultural behaviours and beliefs include early marriage, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), honour killing and maiming, among others.
Today's New Vision Newspaper (29th July, 2020) captured a story involving six girl
The Gulu Municipality Member of Parliament Hon. Lyandro Komakech was recently granted leave of Parliament to introduce the Human Rights Defenders' Protection Bill, 2020. See the motion at https://bit.ly/3eZUnMH
Human rights defenders (HRDs) are defined by the United Nations as “people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights”. They also play an esse
Save for the constitutional rights clearly stipulated under the Constitution of Uganda, there are also duties imposed on every Ugandan to oblige. These duties include the following;
(a) To be patriotic and loyal to Uganda and to promote its wellbeing;
(b) To engage in gainful work for the good of that Citizen, the family and the common good and to contribute to national development;
The current status of the reach of justice in Uganda is greatly wanting. For someone to risk their health to see justice delivered to another person's door step is speaks so much.
With the Legal Aid Law in place, people seeking justice would ably and comfortably access it. This is among the many other justifications for passing the Law.
We urge the responsible stakeholders to ensure
Torture is the practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment either to force them to say something or refrain from doing something.
Articles 21 and 44 of Uganda's Constitution particularly prohibits torture, cruelty, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Some security operatives have engaged in acts of torture against those they believe to be in opposition to th
It is not news that many times you and I have found ourselves in a financial difficulty.
Some of us have opted to run to money lenders for financial bail out.
The money lenders take advantage of borrowers who at this point in a serious financial crisis and end up being permanently deprived of their properties.
One should therefore take the following precautions before taking out a lo
Yes we need the legal aid law urgently passed by the 10th parliament for the following grounds:
The global pandemic of COVID 19 has has had a devastating impact on the economy leaving the small income earners crippled with no means to pay for legal services than ever before but rather left to benefit from the legal aid law for access to justice
Thousands of lawyers, advocates and parale
The proposed Legal Aid Law will not only benefit the poor and vulnerable. It will also benefit the following:
The Government: The law will facilitate faster disposal of cases and consequently, the de-congestion of prisons and the Government will be able to cut down on the costs of feeding the currently high number of prisoners.
The Judiciary: The law will facilitate the right to a fair
The existing state provided legal aid services are limited in scope. Enacting the law will expand the scope and reach of legal aid services and thus facilitate access to justice since legal aid is a key proponent of access to justice.
The poor and marginalized face impediments in accessing legal services, especially those in rural areas who are far from their reach. With the proposed Law in plac
Many ugandans would wish to travel abroad for greener pastures and for a better pay. Many times some ugandans have been employed as casual labourers for jobs like security guards, house maids, porters, drivers etc.
Many agents are involved till a ugandan worker can reach there required destination., it is difficult at times to apportion liability in case of injury suffered by the recruitee d
There has been a prevalent practice of men bestowing matrimonial property to their heirs in their Wills without the consent of their spouses. The High Court’s Family Division on 3rd July, 2020 outlawed this practice. See: https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/No-property-heirs-spouse-consent-court-rules-Kolya/688334-5588152-13x8214z/index.html for more details.
The judgment stems fro
There is a thin line between life and death. It is always important that one's wishes after death are deduced into a Will.
A Will is just a formal expression of a person's wishes or intentions after his or her death. It is another document of transfer of property through which a persons can be able to dispose of their property after their death.
Wills would generally be focussed on prop
The rule of law is the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to the law. No one is above the law.
To this end, Uganda has distinct laws to regulate the use of force and firearms by law enforcers. Nothing in the law justifies the use of greater force than is reasonable or necessary.
However, before and during this COVID-19 period; there have been so man
Children are at the risk of being exposed to sexual abuse that may take various forms to wit include early marriages, defilement, children being exposed to sexual content like pornography, sexual slavery and incest.
Not long ago, girl children are reported to being made pregnant by their nieces and or relatives. Scenarios have also emerged where parents have traded their children for sex in a
To many people, access to justice simply means improving one's access to courts of law or guaranteeing their legal representation. However, it encompasses more than just that. Access to justice encompasses the ability of people to seek and obtain remedies through formal or informal institutions of justice while in compliance with human rights standards.
Some of the hindrances to access to jus
On the 29th of June 2020, the nation woke up to shocking news of the president's land being dishonestly taken by fraud stars.
These FRAUDULENT persons created a title on the president's land in Kabulasoke gomba which had already been registered in the name of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Before the president became a victim of land grabbers, many ugandans had fell victims and are still bein
The right to food has not been properly recognized under Uganda's legal framework. There are some provisions in the National Objectives and Directives of State Policy for the right; but even the Bill of Rights in the Constitution is silent on the same.
At the policy level, we have the Food and Nutrition Policy of 2003, of which its implementation is lacking. The institutional and legal frame
The COVID 19 pandemic has led to freezing of the enjoyment of many rights including the right to education.
Education has been frozen for the last four months since Friday 20th March 2020. What started as a temporary closure of learning institutions for one month, is now pointing towards costing learners the entire academic year.
The continued closure of schools has not only affected l
On 11th June 2020, we discussed the effects of COVID-19 on contracts of employment. See: https://websocial.laspnet.org/index.php?u=/topic/66/the-effects-of-covid-19-on-the-contracts-of-employment
Instances of employees being laid off, sent on forced leave and terminated unfairly continue to rise during the crisis. Employees engaged under oral/informal contracts of employment are suffering the
The landlords have taken advantage of the current Corona virus pandemic where many government offices are not normally functioning, to evict the "kibanja" owners/siting tenants from the land.
Many sitting tenants like in the past have lost their land which is their only means of livelihood.
The unscrupulous landlords are so smart in that at times their evictions are well planned and go
In execution of its duty to facilitate the exercise of the right to vote despite the limitations posed by the Covid-19 Pandemic; the Electoral Commission recently released a revised 2020/21 election roadmap (see https://thepubliclensug.com/2020/06/16/no-mass-rallies-ec-unveils-revised-roadmap-for-2021-general-elections/).
The said roadmap shortens the electoral campaign duration and prohibit
Police and all other sister agencies have got powers to arrest you even on mere suspicion of having committed a crime. The intervention of other security agencies like C.M.I, Flying Squad etc, is dependant upon the gravity of the case.
On many occasions, the detentions have gone on for months.
What can be done to secure the release of a person from detention?
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On the 10th of june 2020, a landlord from masaka set his tenant on fire inside his rented house because of non payment of rent.
some landlords have violently resorted to removing their roof tops leaving the properties of their clients at the risk of being stolen or damaged by rain.
3 Others have threaten to forcefully evict. their tenants.
While in the business city centre of Kam
The Constitution of the Republic of Uganda entitles every person to a right to personal liberty. However, this right can be suspended if authorized under the law.
An arrest is an act that involves using legal authority to deprive a person of his or her liberty. It may be done for different reasons. An arrested person is usually referred to as a suspect/detainee.
An arrest is initiated to
Article 41 of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda provides for the right of access to information for every citizen of Uganda except where its release is prejudicial to State security or sovereignty; or to another person's right to privacy.
Do you think COVID-19 has in any way limited the enjoyment of this right? Kindly share with us your views and recommendations on this matter.
We are seeing a number of employers suspending their contractual obligations under the Employment contracts on the ground of COVID 19. This has left employees without salaries for as long as the suspension exists.
Similarly, other employers have decided to deduct the salaries of the employees either by half or by a certain percentage, leaving employees with less salary than what they would h
There has been an increase in the cases of domestic violence during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these cases have already claimed lives and they pose a big threat to human dignity.
How can we step up our efforts to ensure that the right to respect for human dignity and protection from inhuman treatment enshrined in Article 24 of the 1995 Constitution of Uganda is protected in this
In order for the youth to become and remain engaged in anti-corruption initiatives, they need to feel
included as stakeholders in any policy development and implementation of anti-corruption strategies, and
perceive the ownership of the actions they are involved in. The more the youth takes the lead, the more the
policies have the chance to succeed. Youth initiatives become even more
what could be the causes of gender based violence
juria
posted Jun 15 '17 at 9:32 am
Otto a father of four have deliberately refused to provide maintenance for his children despite him having a stable income
