Family Land Rights Tree (FLRT): A tool to reliably prove customary land rights
- 25 July 2014 -
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Following an internal reflection within the Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU) in December 2013 on its role in land rights promotion, the organization realized that, whilst it works to build the capacity of land administrators such as the clans, the police and the courts, when it came to mediation work, it undertook it directly with the parties and unintentionally had been undermining the clans. LEMU had previously worked with clans only as witnesses and meeting mobilisers. This reflection also coincided with the Northern Uganda Land Platform (NULP) research on “uprooting bad faith: the quest for appropriate land dispute resolution in Northern Uganda” in October, 2013 which recommended that “NGOs are advised to use their efforts and resources to reinforce existing traditional and state institutions, rather than create justice alternatives that compete with these long-term actors”.
UGANDA NETWORK ON LAW, ETHICS AND HIV/AIDS (UGANET) SUCCESS STORY: SSENSALIRE GODFREY
- 25 July 2014 -
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Brief facts:
Our client Ssensalire Godfrey aged 54 years, a resident of Mbuya 2 Zone III, Nakawa Division reported that he had been abused and sometimes physically beaten by his 2 older sons and his wife, Margret Napeyon. He had made a will and bought it to UGANET for safe custody. He had on some occasions fallen so sick but the wife had neglected him and left him to die in a house. He only lived at the mercy of his support counselor and mother.
20 Billion Needed for Pro-Bono Services
- 18 July 2014 -
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(By Simon Musasizi- The Weekly Observer)
In 2010, when Night (not real name) fled her violent husband’s home and returned to her parents in Kasese, she expected him to go for her – as is often the norm in Uganda.
To her surprise, things didn’t happen that way. It was, instead, a court bailiff who came knocking at her father’s door in May last year.The bailiffs had carried court summons from Makindye magistrate’s court, requiring Night to appear before the court within two weeks in a divorce case filed by her husband.“The letter was delivered 10 days after it had been issued.
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