Plot 66-67 Kiriwawanvu Lane, GACCETA Estate, Gayaza-Kalagi Road, Wakiso District, Uganda. P.O Box 16414, Wandegeya. Email: info@cefroht.org | Tel: +256 414 660813 | +256 772 480179
CEFROHT implements a Community Justice Program (CJP) to promote access to justice through legal empowerment, social accountability and human rights based approaches as critical pathways for sustainable access to justice for the poor, vulnerable and marginalized individuals and communities in the districts of Buyende, Kyankwanzi and Kiboga so far.
CEFROHT identified the new Human Rights (Enforcement) Act, 2019 as a critical tool in advancing adequate living rights of rural communities including property rights. This has contributed to an enabling environment for sustainable access to justice using the Human Rights (Enforcement) Act, 2019. In implementing this, we found out that women are disproportionately affected with land evictions from large corporations, individuals and families including their in-laws and spouses.
We embarked on training justice actors and justice seekers including women barazas and community general awareness on claiming land as a human right. We also train local leaders at Local Council 1, Sub County level and at District level. These leaders then use the law to refer women to courts of law. We also train court mediators and court clerks on the use of this law.
We are excited to have found some of these cases decided in just a month and half. All the cases that have been in this pioneer intervention are a success. They also promote reconciliation and adequate remedy. This is a departure from the conventional means of accessing redress which has been taking between four to ten years in many land cases.
CEFROHT trains and dialogues with Local Council leaders to help them understand how land entitlements and other adequate living rights like food, and property can be framed and claimed as human right and as well use the HREA to refer adequate living disputes from their local courts to the formal justice system. The Local Council leaders identify violations of adequate living rights in their communities and mediated them under the HREA.
CEFROHT used a unique tool of women community baraza to catalyze the power within the vulnerable women to hold the duty bearers accountable for their inaction on issues of adequate living rights. Through these barazas pertinent issues of promoting women adequate living rights have been discussed by the duty bearers and the women
On the adjudication of adequate living rights cases under the Human Rights (Enforcement) Act, 2019.
On claiming adequate living rights using the Human Rights (Enforcement) Act, 2019.
Plot 66-67 Kiriwawanvu Lane,
GACCETA Estate, Gayaza-Kalagi Road,
Wakiso District, Uganda.
P.O Box 16414, Wandegeya
Our work is directed towards the interconnection of food justice, climate justice and economic justice in promoting adequate living.
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