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Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda

The coalition is dedicated to anti-corruption advocacy in Uganda, and they have a database with a range of reports and materials on corruption issues in Uganda.

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Mwenda v Attorney-General

Facing restrictions on free speech and the imprisonment of government critics, the Ugandan Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right to freedom of expression. The court set out wide protections for the right to freedom of expression, preventing government from making further restrictions in the future, and ordered them to stop criminal prosecutions of political speech.

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Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) is an alliance of civil society organisations, professional bodies, multilateral and bilateral organisations (including some funders) and international training and research institutions. They work together with the aim of increasing access to land and tenure security. GLTN’s focus is to aid the poor and women internationally.  GLTN promote fair land […]

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Saving Uganda’s rainforests using public interest litigation

Abstract: In August 2011, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced that he planned to give away part of Mabira rainforest to a sugar corporation to grow a sugarcane plantation and enhance sugar production in the country… This Note argues that the Ugandans opposed to the give-away of forest land to private companies can bring public interest […]

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Renegotiating customary tenure reform (Uganda)

This article explores land reform that integrates statutory and customary tenure. It examine what this implies for tenure security of customary landholders. Land reform inevitably feeds into institutional multiplicity and competition, and serves as a venue for the renegotiation of land governing authorities and regulations. In Uganda, through such reform, customary authorities are delegitimised and […]

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SAFE: Supporting Access to Justice, Fostering Equity and Peace

(USAID-SAFE Programme), a five-year development program (2012 – 2017), aims to strengthen the Government of Uganda’s (GoU) capacity with respect to peace building and conflict mitigation. The SAFE Program supports a core set of activities in two component areas: “Access to Justice” and “Peace and Reconciliation“. Grants are awarded under both of these components to […]

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Non-State Legal Aid and Service Providers (Directory)

Directory of Organisational Profiles This resource features organisations in Uganda that are currently known to provide legal advice and assistance in both criminal and civil cases by advocates, non-lawyers (i.e. bar training course students under the supervision of an advocate, and law graduates awaiting enrolment), law clinic students, paralegals, as well as community volunteers.

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USAID – SAFE land rights handbook

Promoting community legal volunteers to safeguard land rights in Uganda. Supporting Access to Justice, Fostering Equity and Peace (USAID-SAFE) commissioned the development of this Handbook as part of its objective to strengthen the Government of Uganda’s (GoU) capacity with respect to peace building and conflict mitigation. This initiative is part of efforts to provide assistance, […]

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Avocats sans Frontières (ASF)

Based in Brussels, Belgium. Date established: 1992 Description: Avocats Sans Frontières is an international NGO specialised in defending human rights and supporting justice. ASF intervenes in countries where human rights are not respected, where political violence and armed conflict reign, and where legal rules are flouted. Provides legal advice and support through its programmes and […]

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Public Interest Law Clinic (PILAC)

PILAC was established at the School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda in 1998. PILAC’s mission is to challenge academic, political and social elitism, promote equality and non-discriminatory access to justice, and facilitate the greater protection of human rights at the national, regional and international levels. PILAC’s vision is to build a cadre of lawyers […]

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