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| AHURIO participated in the development of this manual as a member of LASPNET |
Thursday 31 March 2016
Child friendly legal aid manual for Uganda
Monday 28 March 2016
Saturday 26 March 2016
An African Oral tradition on women leadership inscribed by UNESCO
A Ugandan NGO “Engabu Za Tooro -Tooro Youth Platform for
Action” uses culture to promote gender equality. About eleven years ago it
identified, research on and profiled a very rich African oral tradition build
around a heroine called Koogere and an era of women leadership.
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A gender programme was developed around this oral tradition
and its results have been documented. In 2010 the organization worn
accreditation to UNESCO to offer advisory services to the Intergovernmental
Committee for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.
Using this
opportunity, the organization in 2011 mobilised women groups to petition UNESCO
to inscribe this oral tradition on women leadership on the world list of
intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.
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The evaluation of the nomination was done on the oral
tradition which was inscribed at the 10th session of UNESCO’s
Intergovernmental Committee for safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage
which took place from 30th November to 4th December 2015
in Windheock Namibia.
To access the full dossier of the Koogere Oral Tradition go
to: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00704
AHURIO participates in a meeting with Hon. Chief Justice Uganda
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| AHURIO Coordinator (Board Member, LASPNET) in a group photo with Chief Justice, Head of DGF, Director LASPNET and members of CSO's |
AHURIO participates in the Annual Human Rights Defenders Forum, 2016
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| A photo of the 2016 National Annual Human Rights Defenders Forum held 15th - 18th March, 2016 at Silver Springs Hotel, Kampala |
Friday 25 March 2016
2016 Young Feminist Caucus Statement at the Sixtieth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
With the 60th Commission on the Status of Women currently meeting at the United Nations in New York, a diverse group of young feminists gathered and worked together to create this progressive statement. Voicing our many priorities, this statement has now been endorsed by over 85 organizations!
Preamble
We are a diverse group of young feminist advocates, gathered in New York at the Sixtieth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), working for gender, reproductive, economic, ecological, and social justice and political transformation. We applaud the commitments governments have made under the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to guarantee gender equality, eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against us, and achieve the full and meaningful realisation of our human rights. We emphasize that the Beijing Platform for Action and Agenda 2030 are linked and valuable strategies for women’s and girls’ empowerment, the realization of their human rights and sustainable development. We call on the CSW to play a strong role in monitoring the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action whilst establishing strong linkages with the relevant goals and targets of the SDGs. In both processes, the meaningful participation and engagement of all young people at all levels should be ensured. We, the young feminist caucus, affirm this statement as a supplement to the official CSW Youth Forum Declaration, further emphasizing our priorities.
Our diversity is our strength, and together we call for the full recognition and meaningful participation of youth, inclusive of age, race, caste, ethnicity, health status (including HIV and mental health status), ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, marital status, parenthood, class, indigeneity, migrant status, and others.
As we begin to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in coordination with the Beijing Platform for Action, we urge the CSW to address the following priorities for young people in all our diversity. Moreover, sexual and reproductive health and rights are human rights and together we emphasize the cross-cutting centrality of realizing these rights to achieve social justice, women’s and girls’ empowerment, and sustainable development. We call on governments to:
Youth Participation
Ensure the meaningful, full and effective participation of young people and underrepresented groups in political spaces, decision making platforms and accountability mechanisms, at all levels, including in formulating, developing, implementing and evaluating laws, policies, plans and budgets. Therefore we call for the creation of safe, enabling and inclusive environments for building the leadership of young women, adolescents and girls in local, provincial and national governments, as well as at international convenings. We emphasize that youth participation cannot be tokenistic, needs to be paired with financial, educational, and logistical support, and must be free from all forms of gender-based harassment and violence
Climate Change and Justice
Recognize that the current growth-led model of development directly contributes to climate change and the associated violations of human rights that disproportionately affect young women, adolescents, and girls. We urge all stakeholders to ensure equal access to land, property, and sustainable and environmentally safe development, including access to technology and capital for young women, adolescents and girls. Members states must preserve the right of indigenous peoples over their land and territory, especially in the face of encroaching private sector development. We ask for the implementation of gender-sensitive responses in reference to the Paris Agreement, ahead of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties 22 in Marrakech.
Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Legal Barriers
Ensure the full realization of sexual and reproductive rights through the repeal of discriminatory laws and policies such as parental and spousal consent laws, laws that criminalize abortion, and laws that criminalize individuals on the basis of age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sexual practices, HIV status and transmission, and labour choices, including sex work. We call on governments to protect and promote legal recourse and access to justice and remedies when the sexual and reproductive rights of young people are violated.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
Ensure the provision of evidence and rights-based, universal, comprehensive, quality, accessible, affordable, non-judgmental, confidential, gender-sensitive, youth-friendly information and services for all young people without coercion, and including in humanitarian settings. This covers, but is not limited to, a full range of voluntary contraceptive options (including emergency contraception and long acting reversible contraception), mental health services, maternal health services, safe and legal abortion services, treatment, care and support for sexually transmitted infections and HIV and AIDS, as well as freedom from forced, coerced, uninformed and non-consensual sterilization and medical testings. We call for an end to stigma and discrimination in healthcare provision, through increased awareness among health sciences students, doctors-in-training, physicians, healthcare professionals, and community workers on sexual and reproductive health and rights. We urge governments to promote and defend anti-discrimination legislation across health services.
Education
Prioritize the education of young women, adolescents and girls and strengthen policies and programmes that ensure equal access to longitudinal education for all young people. We emphasize the importance of gender inclusive quality education with relevant curricula which prioritises holistic learning methods, including mentorship and skills development, and that prepares young women, adolescents, and girls for decent work, equitable employment opportunities and entrepreneurship. We urge governments to train educators on gender-sensitive policies and practices to end discrimination and stigma in academic settings.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Prioritize the adoption and successful implementation of evidence-based, medically accurate, universally accessible, quality, non-judgmental comprehensive sexuality education. This must emphasize human sexuality, sexual pleasure, gender equality, human rights, healthy relationships, and sexual and reproductive health, and be provided in a safe and participatory environment that caters to formal and informal education systems, for all young people.
Gender Based Violence
Strengthen their response to gender-based violence, putting into action the measures outlined in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These actions must take into account multifaceted forms of violence including early and forced marriage, sexual violence, online violence, intimate partner violence, coerced labour, rape (including marital rape), violence in educational institutions, harmful traditional practices, violence on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and sex characteristics, violence as a product of religious fundamentalisms, coerced and forced sterilization, and violence within conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian settings. Governments must recognize the psychological and emotional effects of trauma, including transgenerational violence, and include this in their response to gender-based violence.
Conclusion
In order for the 2030 Agenda and the Beijing Platform for Action to become a reality for all young people, it is necessary to fully integrate all of the above priorities across all implementation strategies. We call on governments to measure progress with gender-sensitive, and youth and adolescent specific indicators, supported with data disaggregated by gender and age and other necessary information in order to monitor inequalities and discrimination across intersectional identities. The above priorities must be supported by resourcing frameworks including flexible, core and long term funding for youth led organisations at the grassroots and international level.
We call on governments to recognize that we, as young people, are rights-holders as well as experts in our own experiences. We are not “vulnerable”, we are not a “dividend” to cash in on, we are not “the future”; we are here. We ask that our voices be heard and that our agency over our bodies, our lives, and our communities be acknowledged.
Download the statement here: CSW 60- Young Feminist Caucus Statement
Endorsing youth organizations and allies:
ActionAid International
Advocates for Youth
Association of Human Rights Organisations (AHURIO)
African Women’s Development and Communication Network ( FEMNET)
African Youth & Adolescents Network on Population & Development – Eastern & Southern Africa Chapter (AfriYAN ESA)
AIDOS – Italian Association for Women in Development
American Jewish World Service
ARC International
Argentinian Network of adolescents and Young people for SRHR – Argentina
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
Asociación Gojoven Guatemala
ASTRA Network, Central and Eastern Europe
ASTRA Youth
The ATHENA Network
Atria – Institute for Gender Equality and Women’s History
Balance Promoción para el Desarrollo y Juventud AC
Beyond Beijing Committee
The Center for Reproductive Rights, USA
The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL)
Center Women and Modern World, Azerbaijan
CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, the Netherlands
Coalition of African Lesbians.
Commonwealth Youth and Gender Equality Network
Curious Minds, Ghana
Dance4life, the Netherlands
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality, Fiji
Education as a Vaccine
Elige Red de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos, Mexico
Engajamundo, Brazil
Equality and Modernity, Poland
Equilibres & Populations, France
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland
Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, Fiji
Fortress of Hope Africa, Kenya
Free and Equal Rights, Indonesia
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund
Fundacion Arcoiris, Mexico
Fundacion para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer, Argentina
FUSA Para la Salud Integral con Perspectiva de Genero y Derechos, Asociacion Civil and Center of Woman
The Gender Agency
Gender Proud
Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS, an affiliate of the Public Health Institute
Haus of Khameleon, Fiji
Health Education and Skills Development initiative (HESDI), Nigeria
Hidden-Pockets, India
HRM Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
International Community of Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), Chapter of Young Women, Adolescents, and Girls
IFMSA – International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations
International Fellowship of Reconciliation
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
International Women’s Health Coalition
Ipas
Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir A.C
International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
The International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)
Isis-Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE), Uganda
Kadinkoalisyonu/ Women’s Coalition Turkey
Kouraj Association, Haiti
The Liberia Girl Guides Association
The Lotus Identity, Zambia
MenEngage Alliance
Mosaic Training, Service & Healing Centre for Women, South Africa
Mother of Hope Cameroon (MOHCAM)
Mujer y Salud Uruguay (MYSU)
National Tertiary Education Union, Australia
Nepal Policy Institute (NPC)
Noemi Gruetter, Swiss Youth Representative
Pacific Network Against Violence Against Women and Girls
Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Alliance
Pacific Youth Council
Pari o Dispare, Italy
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, USA
Le Planning Familial, France
Positive Youth Network of Latin America and the Caribbean
REDefine Mexico
Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos- RedLAC
Republika Libre, Dominican Republic
RESURJ
SPECTRA: Diverse People, Diverse Interventions, Rwanda
Taller Salud, Puerto Rico
TierrActiva, Peru
Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health, Kenya
Uganda Young Positives (UYP)
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
Vecinas Feministas de América Latina y el Caribe por la Justicia Sexual y Reproductiva
Vision Spring Initiatives, Nigeria
Wings To Transcend Namibia
Women’s Action Network, Sri Lanka
Women Deliver
WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform
Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights
Women’s Health and Equal Rights (WHER) Initiative, Nigeria
Women United Together, Marshall Islands
Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways, Turkey
World YWCA
YouAct, European Youth Network on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Youth Champions Advocacy Network, Nepal
Young Women’s Leadership Institute, Kenya
Youth Advocacy Network, Sri Lanka
Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Youth Engage, Zimbabwe
YWCA Australia
We are a diverse group of young feminist advocates, gathered in New York at the Sixtieth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), working for gender, reproductive, economic, ecological, and social justice and political transformation. We applaud the commitments governments have made under the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to guarantee gender equality, eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against us, and achieve the full and meaningful realisation of our human rights. We emphasize that the Beijing Platform for Action and Agenda 2030 are linked and valuable strategies for women’s and girls’ empowerment, the realization of their human rights and sustainable development. We call on the CSW to play a strong role in monitoring the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action whilst establishing strong linkages with the relevant goals and targets of the SDGs. In both processes, the meaningful participation and engagement of all young people at all levels should be ensured. We, the young feminist caucus, affirm this statement as a supplement to the official CSW Youth Forum Declaration, further emphasizing our priorities.
Our diversity is our strength, and together we call for the full recognition and meaningful participation of youth, inclusive of age, race, caste, ethnicity, health status (including HIV and mental health status), ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, marital status, parenthood, class, indigeneity, migrant status, and others.
As we begin to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in coordination with the Beijing Platform for Action, we urge the CSW to address the following priorities for young people in all our diversity. Moreover, sexual and reproductive health and rights are human rights and together we emphasize the cross-cutting centrality of realizing these rights to achieve social justice, women’s and girls’ empowerment, and sustainable development. We call on governments to:
Youth Participation
Ensure the meaningful, full and effective participation of young people and underrepresented groups in political spaces, decision making platforms and accountability mechanisms, at all levels, including in formulating, developing, implementing and evaluating laws, policies, plans and budgets. Therefore we call for the creation of safe, enabling and inclusive environments for building the leadership of young women, adolescents and girls in local, provincial and national governments, as well as at international convenings. We emphasize that youth participation cannot be tokenistic, needs to be paired with financial, educational, and logistical support, and must be free from all forms of gender-based harassment and violence
Climate Change and Justice
Recognize that the current growth-led model of development directly contributes to climate change and the associated violations of human rights that disproportionately affect young women, adolescents, and girls. We urge all stakeholders to ensure equal access to land, property, and sustainable and environmentally safe development, including access to technology and capital for young women, adolescents and girls. Members states must preserve the right of indigenous peoples over their land and territory, especially in the face of encroaching private sector development. We ask for the implementation of gender-sensitive responses in reference to the Paris Agreement, ahead of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties 22 in Marrakech.
Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Legal Barriers
Ensure the full realization of sexual and reproductive rights through the repeal of discriminatory laws and policies such as parental and spousal consent laws, laws that criminalize abortion, and laws that criminalize individuals on the basis of age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sexual practices, HIV status and transmission, and labour choices, including sex work. We call on governments to protect and promote legal recourse and access to justice and remedies when the sexual and reproductive rights of young people are violated.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
Ensure the provision of evidence and rights-based, universal, comprehensive, quality, accessible, affordable, non-judgmental, confidential, gender-sensitive, youth-friendly information and services for all young people without coercion, and including in humanitarian settings. This covers, but is not limited to, a full range of voluntary contraceptive options (including emergency contraception and long acting reversible contraception), mental health services, maternal health services, safe and legal abortion services, treatment, care and support for sexually transmitted infections and HIV and AIDS, as well as freedom from forced, coerced, uninformed and non-consensual sterilization and medical testings. We call for an end to stigma and discrimination in healthcare provision, through increased awareness among health sciences students, doctors-in-training, physicians, healthcare professionals, and community workers on sexual and reproductive health and rights. We urge governments to promote and defend anti-discrimination legislation across health services.
Education
Prioritize the education of young women, adolescents and girls and strengthen policies and programmes that ensure equal access to longitudinal education for all young people. We emphasize the importance of gender inclusive quality education with relevant curricula which prioritises holistic learning methods, including mentorship and skills development, and that prepares young women, adolescents, and girls for decent work, equitable employment opportunities and entrepreneurship. We urge governments to train educators on gender-sensitive policies and practices to end discrimination and stigma in academic settings.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Prioritize the adoption and successful implementation of evidence-based, medically accurate, universally accessible, quality, non-judgmental comprehensive sexuality education. This must emphasize human sexuality, sexual pleasure, gender equality, human rights, healthy relationships, and sexual and reproductive health, and be provided in a safe and participatory environment that caters to formal and informal education systems, for all young people.
Gender Based Violence
Strengthen their response to gender-based violence, putting into action the measures outlined in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These actions must take into account multifaceted forms of violence including early and forced marriage, sexual violence, online violence, intimate partner violence, coerced labour, rape (including marital rape), violence in educational institutions, harmful traditional practices, violence on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and sex characteristics, violence as a product of religious fundamentalisms, coerced and forced sterilization, and violence within conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian settings. Governments must recognize the psychological and emotional effects of trauma, including transgenerational violence, and include this in their response to gender-based violence.
Conclusion
In order for the 2030 Agenda and the Beijing Platform for Action to become a reality for all young people, it is necessary to fully integrate all of the above priorities across all implementation strategies. We call on governments to measure progress with gender-sensitive, and youth and adolescent specific indicators, supported with data disaggregated by gender and age and other necessary information in order to monitor inequalities and discrimination across intersectional identities. The above priorities must be supported by resourcing frameworks including flexible, core and long term funding for youth led organisations at the grassroots and international level.
We call on governments to recognize that we, as young people, are rights-holders as well as experts in our own experiences. We are not “vulnerable”, we are not a “dividend” to cash in on, we are not “the future”; we are here. We ask that our voices be heard and that our agency over our bodies, our lives, and our communities be acknowledged.
Download the statement here: CSW 60- Young Feminist Caucus Statement
Endorsing youth organizations and allies:
ActionAid International
Advocates for Youth
Association of Human Rights Organisations (AHURIO)
African Women’s Development and Communication Network ( FEMNET)
African Youth & Adolescents Network on Population & Development – Eastern & Southern Africa Chapter (AfriYAN ESA)
AIDOS – Italian Association for Women in Development
American Jewish World Service
ARC International
Argentinian Network of adolescents and Young people for SRHR – Argentina
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
Asociación Gojoven Guatemala
ASTRA Network, Central and Eastern Europe
ASTRA Youth
The ATHENA Network
Atria – Institute for Gender Equality and Women’s History
Balance Promoción para el Desarrollo y Juventud AC
Beyond Beijing Committee
The Center for Reproductive Rights, USA
The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL)
Center Women and Modern World, Azerbaijan
CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, the Netherlands
Coalition of African Lesbians.
Commonwealth Youth and Gender Equality Network
Curious Minds, Ghana
Dance4life, the Netherlands
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality, Fiji
Education as a Vaccine
Elige Red de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos, Mexico
Engajamundo, Brazil
Equality and Modernity, Poland
Equilibres & Populations, France
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland
Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, Fiji
Fortress of Hope Africa, Kenya
Free and Equal Rights, Indonesia
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund
Fundacion Arcoiris, Mexico
Fundacion para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer, Argentina
FUSA Para la Salud Integral con Perspectiva de Genero y Derechos, Asociacion Civil and Center of Woman
The Gender Agency
Gender Proud
Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS, an affiliate of the Public Health Institute
Haus of Khameleon, Fiji
Health Education and Skills Development initiative (HESDI), Nigeria
Hidden-Pockets, India
HRM Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
International Community of Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), Chapter of Young Women, Adolescents, and Girls
IFMSA – International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations
International Fellowship of Reconciliation
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
International Women’s Health Coalition
Ipas
Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir A.C
International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
The International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)
Isis-Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE), Uganda
Kadinkoalisyonu/ Women’s Coalition Turkey
Kouraj Association, Haiti
The Liberia Girl Guides Association
The Lotus Identity, Zambia
MenEngage Alliance
Mosaic Training, Service & Healing Centre for Women, South Africa
Mother of Hope Cameroon (MOHCAM)
Mujer y Salud Uruguay (MYSU)
National Tertiary Education Union, Australia
Nepal Policy Institute (NPC)
Noemi Gruetter, Swiss Youth Representative
Pacific Network Against Violence Against Women and Girls
Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Alliance
Pacific Youth Council
Pari o Dispare, Italy
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, USA
Le Planning Familial, France
Positive Youth Network of Latin America and the Caribbean
REDefine Mexico
Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos- RedLAC
Republika Libre, Dominican Republic
RESURJ
SPECTRA: Diverse People, Diverse Interventions, Rwanda
Taller Salud, Puerto Rico
TierrActiva, Peru
Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health, Kenya
Uganda Young Positives (UYP)
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
Vecinas Feministas de América Latina y el Caribe por la Justicia Sexual y Reproductiva
Vision Spring Initiatives, Nigeria
Wings To Transcend Namibia
Women’s Action Network, Sri Lanka
Women Deliver
WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform
Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights
Women’s Health and Equal Rights (WHER) Initiative, Nigeria
Women United Together, Marshall Islands
Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways, Turkey
World YWCA
YouAct, European Youth Network on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Youth Champions Advocacy Network, Nepal
Young Women’s Leadership Institute, Kenya
Youth Advocacy Network, Sri Lanka
Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Youth Engage, Zimbabwe
YWCA Australia
AHURIO staff participates in the national dialogue on divorce law in Uganda
AHURIO
staff, Fred Kaahwa on 24th March, 2016 participated in a national
dialogue on the evolving status of divorce law in Uganda. The one day dialogue
was held at Protea Hotel, Kampala.
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| Prof. Sylvia Tamale of Makerere University Law School & Coordinator of Law, Gender and Sexuality engages with Journalists on the evolving status of divorce law in Uganda |
In
addition, the meeting was aimed at strengthening networking and coordination
between various actors as a tool for strategic advocacy in support of vulnerable
women in Uganda.
Some
of the key recommendations from the dialogue meeting included following up to see that is there is regular
case law reporting especially cases with gender perspective, simplifying information into learning tools,
pushing Uganda parliament to pass laws governing matrimonial property.
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| Dr. Maria Nassali (standing) discusses the adultery and divorce law during the dialogue meeting. |
AHURIO
will continue in promoting the objectives of the dialogue meeting by promoting
access to justice for vulnerable women and children in the Rwenzori Region.
The
dialogue meeting was organized by LASPNET in partnership with FIDA Uganda and
International Governance Alliance and funded by Ford Foundation.
Wednesday 23 March 2016
AHURIO holds a regional stakeholders meeting on Human Rights Situation in Rwenzori
On behalf of Legal Aid
Service Providers Network (LASPNET), and through its regional representative
mandate Association of Human Rights Organizations (AHURIO) organized a half day
dialogue meeting on the regional stakeholder’s
dialogue meeting on human
rights situation in the
Rwenzori sub-region The meeting was intended to come up with a
roadmap for rapid response to the post electoral human rights situation in the
region.
The meeting was held on
Monday, 21st March, 2016 at Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC)
Fort Portal Regional Office Boardroom located on Plot 3/5, Mugurusi Road.
The meeting started at 8:30am
and ended at 2:00pm and it attracted participants from the civil society,
paralegals, Legal Aid Service Providers, security agencies and members of the
RCC.
The
dialogue meeting was supported and funded by LASPNET under its core programme area of Research,
Advocacy and Documentation.
Below are some of the photos of the meeting;
AHURIO ED holds meeting with UN human rights officer
The head of AHURIO, Fred Kaahwa on Monday, 22nd March 2016 held a consultative meeting on post election human rights situation in the Rwenzori Region with a team of the UN Human Rights Office in Uganda led by the country human rights officer, Mr. Javier Sanjuan at AHURIO's regional offices in Fort Portal. The major issues discussed included; the geo-ethnic/tribal electoral violence in Bundibugyo and Kasese districts, documenting and reporting mechanisms of human rights abuses and violations in the region.
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| AHURIO Coordinator with the UN team at AHURIO's regional office in Fort Portal - Uganda |
Launch of Child Friendly Legal Aid manual
An umbrella organization of Legal Aid Service Providers in Uganda launches a child friendly legal aid manual. AHURIO participated in the consultative process in the Western part of Uganda to develop the manual. The manual will assist in child protection and child justice for all agencies working with children. The manual was launched today by Masaka High Court Judge.
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| Launch of the manual in Kampala |
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