ABSTRACT General comment 19 of the international covenant on civil and political rights asks states to recognise and protect all families but leaves how to do this to state discretion. It is silfflit on whether all families must be protected equally in all circumstances. Often, states make n01mative distinction between the unmarried cohabitants and married spouses such that cohabitants are norn1ally not given the quality of rights and protections guaranteed to maJTied spouses. Whereas some r...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ..................................................................................................................................... i APPROVAL ........................................................................................................................................... ii DEDICATION .............................. , ........................................................................................................ iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............
ABSTRACT In this study "legal constraints on women's land rights in Uganda", a case study of Soroti Municipality was carried out in Soroti Municipality which is in Uganda, with general and specific objectives of assessing the applicability of the existing customs and cultural practices in our society which bar women from owning and inheriting land in the country. The study considered findings that indicated that the existing customs and cultural practices are contradicting the constitution of...
ABSTRACT As an institution set up in May 1995 and became operational in December 1995, the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has been since then an over seer in the protection of the environment through sectors like the civil society, local governments, district levels and in the private sector in Uganda because it has the mandate to do so as provided by the constitution ' "fthe republic of Uganda. Therefore, this research project is basically carried out to establish the ~xac...
ABSTRACT This study undertook to identify the policy, legal and institutional framework in regard to land securitization in Kenya. The main objective of the study is to determine the policy framework with a view to test the efficacy of the same in so far as it affects the use of land as security for lending in Kenya, to identify institutional challenges that affects the use of land as security for lending, identify the legal impediments that hinders he efficacy of land securitization, e...
ABSTRACT Intestate succession is defined as a means by which the estate of a person who died intestate (without a will) are shared among the beneficiaries. Since time immemorial, the affairs of the family in the African setup including but not limited to succession are determined by customs and traditions. In Uganda there is no exception to that and therefore intestate succession has been, is still and will probably be govemed by customs despite the legal framework that govems it. This ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ............................................................................................................ i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ...................................................•.......................................... ii DECLARATION ........................................................................................................ iii SUPERVISOR'S DECLARATION ................................................................................. iv LIST OF AC...
ABSTRACT This research was undertaken to examine the impact of the law and the policy on child labour with the ultimate aim of designing solutions to the child labour phenomenon. This research was conducted in Kibera area, Kenya. This research was aimed at creating awareness of the existence of child labour to the government, parents and the entire country. It was also meant to caution policy makers and legislators for them to come up with the appropriate mechanisms and strategies for purpos...
ABSTRACT Although extensive international and regional theoretical literature has developed over the years which have shaped commendable treatments of juveniles in most states, the situation of juvenile justice system in Southern Sudan has not only been battling the violations of human rights as a result of the prolonged civil war but also had to face the inadequacies of legal framework that was brutally uprooted. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in Kenya has ushered in a gl...
ABSTRACT Uuarantorship is a green area of study in Uganda with very little information and familiarity among the academia. This has been caused by the insufficiency of the legal regime. unscrupulous desire by the creditors. to keep off the guarantors from precisely making informed decisions. The fact that guarantees are becoming popular with the expanding banking sector. therefore the research undertakes to discover solutions to the existing problems in the operation oi" the guarantorship. T...
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..... . DEDICATION ................ . -APPROVAL .................. . LIST OF TABLES ............. . TABLE OF CONTENTS ... . ... ) ... . ...... 1 . ........... II . ... Ill . .. IV ················v CHAPTER ONE............... . .. I 1.00. INTRODUCTION..... ........... ......... . . ...... . .............. I 1.01. BACKGROUND OF RADIO BROADCASTING IN UGANDA ............... I 1.02. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM......... ,.· ....... 5 1.03. GENERAL OB...
ABSTRACT This study "Analysis of the efficacy of the electoral process in Uganda'' was carried out in Uganda with the aim of ascertaining the effectiveness of the electoral process, analyzing the challenges of election administration in a multiparty electoral process especially focusing more on presidential elections. To also discuss the role of electoral c9mmission in the electoral process. To successfully analyze this qualitative method of data collection was adopted the study relied...
ABSTRACT The research on the role of the police is presented in the following study that was undertaken to reveal the trend of the police's role in the administration of criminal justice in Uganda from the time it was formed to the present day. The study is divided into sections in which section one introduced us to the role played by a democratic police institution, gave us a background of the study, problem statement, objective of the study, research hypothesis, the research methodology th...
ABSTRACT Democracy means people and rule, in other words people have a say in who to govern them and how they can be govemed. Democracy is widely considered to be necessary and important tool. If a country is to develop, politically, socially and economically, and the right to participate in the political and economic life of ones state is guaranteed in most African Constitutions as well as in regional. Thus the value democracy lies in the hands of the people and heir ability to fully and fr...
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