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The theme of International Youth Day 2014 is “Youth and Mental Health” under the slogan ‘Mental Health Matters’.
Youth with mental health conditions can often experience stigma and discrimination, which in turn can lead to exclusion and/or discourage people from seeking help for fear of being negatively ‘labelled’.
The Uganda Law Society (ULS) and Avocats Sans Frontiere (ASF) are implementing a project titled “Mobilizing Lawyers for the Right of Ugandan”. The main objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of Ugandan Lawyers to protect the rights of vulnerable people in Uganda. One of the project result areas is advocacy for the implementation of policy and legislative frameworks hat protect rights of vulnerable persons.
The Naguru Children remand home is very congested with over 160 children and there is urgent need to decongest the facility. This was revealed by the Justice, Law and Order Sector (JLOS) criminal working group during one of its routine inspection visits to the remand home.
The working group had previously arranged with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development to decongest the remand home but efforts were futile. The Executive Director of the Legal Aid Clinic for the Law Development Center (LAC), Mrs. Theodora B Webale called on Legal Aid Service Providers (LASPs) within the network as well as other partners to engage in the venture of decongesting the remand home.
LASPNET joins the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers, FIDA to celebrate 40 years in existence. Together we shall continue to promote the human rights and the inherent dignity of women and children using law as a tool of social justice in order to realize a peaceful society in which people respect each other’s rights
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”.