Pub Date : 2008-04-25DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39355
W. M. Tarinyeba
No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 294-308
没有抽象的。《东非和平与人权杂志》2007年第13卷第2期，第294-308页
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V12I1.39335
Laura Nyirinkindi
The article analyses the role of human rights law and advocacy in setting standards for the quality of education services to make the right to basic education a reality for children with disabilities (CWDs) in Uganda. It focuses on the plight of children with disabilities (CWDs) under Uganda's current educational curriculum. These children are doubly marginalized as children and as persons with disabilities (PWDs). The author analyzes “disability” from different disability models – charitable, medical, human rights and social models. It is argued that the biased categorization in the curriculum of special needs as “difficulties,” “impairment,” “disability,” and “retardation” perpetuates victimization and discrimination of CWDs. Segregation of CWDs from the mainstream schools bars their full inclusion and participation. If PWDs in Uganda are to overcome their deplorable conditions, education must act as the launching pad. The article recognizes the strides made by Uganda to adopt inclusive education policies for special needs education as evident under the Constitution 1995, Children's Statute 1996, and Universal Primary Education (UPE). Nevertheless, the government is advised to ensure coherence and consistency in its conceptualization of inclusive education, lest contradictions in inclusive policies might operate to frustrate the entire strategy. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 12 (1) 2006: pp. 49-64
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I1.39347
J. Ddamulira
The right to freedom from torture, though it is one of the few non-derogable rights, continue to be violated in different parts of the world. This has necessitated various measures to be put in place to ensure that this right is protected and promoted. Measures have been put in place, not only at the international level, but also in the three regional human rights systems: the Inter-America, the European and the African. This article looks at the history of the measures that have been put in place to protect the right to freedom from torture in the Inter-American System of human rights for the last 57 years, that is, from 1948-2005. The author critically examines the relevant instruments and how they have been interpreted or implemented by the relevant enforcement bodies. The author in particular looks at: the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man; the American Convention on Human Rights; and the Inter-American Commission and the Court; the Inter- American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture and recommends that the African human rights system should emulate the developments in the Inter- American system on human rights in the field of promoting and protecting the right to freedom from torture. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 13 (1) 2007: pp. 156-165 Language: en
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V12I1.39340
M. Lubega
No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 12 (1) 2006: pp. 144-151
没有抽象的。东非和平与人权杂志，2006年第12卷第1期，第144-151页
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I1.39348
B. Twinomugisha
In Uganda, there has been some progress in the advancement of women's status through various policy strategies. The policy framework identifies the protection of reproductive health rights as one of government's priorities. Employing library and desk research, the article critically examines the policy framework within which poor women's reproductive health rights are protected. This article argues that the policy framework is geared more towards protection of the interests of globalization than reproductive health rights of poor women. Privatization of health care services ignores the fact that because of their poverty, poor women cannot afford such services. Private sector led growth, whether in health or agriculture has a deleterious impact on poor women's reproductive health rights. Reproductive health policies that exalt contraception over critical areas such as emergency obstetric care, nutritional and occupational health are bound to fail. Any policies designed to protect the reproductive health rights of poor women must take into account their interests, realities and experiences. This can be achieved by involving women in the design, implementation and evaluation of policies intended for their benefit. Short of this, poor women will continue to be mere spectators of the so-called benefits of the globalization process. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 13 (1) 2007: pp. 81-103
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I1.39343
S. Makara
Multiparty elections are generally perceived as a bedrock for democratization and good governance, if conducted in a free, fair and genuine manner. However, in conditions where such elections are shrouded in constitutional manipulation, political opaqueness, greed and consolidation of personal rule, they may instead, entrench an authoritarian regime. This article looks at the effects of the recent multiparty elections on the process of democratization and peace building in Uganda. It recognizes that both democratic governance and peace have eluded Uganda for a long time. The article is built on the background that Uganda's perennial socio-political crises have been partly a result of the failure of the state to conduct free and fair elections. We conclude that if the 2006 multiparty elections had been better organized, they could have formed a milestone in furthering democracy and restoring peace and order in this turmoil-ridden country, and that since this was not the case; the prospect of mitigating the dangers of political conflicts will remain a maze. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 13 (1) 2007: pp. 54-80
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V12I1.39334
Tarisai Mutangi
This article presents an analysis of the conduct of fact-finding missions by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR). The analysis is enriched by comparison with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The impetus of the article is the controversy arising out of the response of the Government of Zimbabwe to the ACHPR in its 17th Annual Activity Report. The author examines in good measure the nature, origins and purpose of fact-finding missions. Through a juxtaposition of fact-finding in the African System and the Inter-American System, he identifies a number of fact-finding related issues arising out of the controversial Government of Zimbabwe report, on which his analysis is based. It is argued that the ACHPR must always be ready to borrow lessons from other human rights systems. The article makes several recommendations to the ACHPR. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 12 (1) 2006: pp. 1-48
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I1.39345
J. Kamanyi
Whereas Article 5 of the Treaty establishing the East African Community clearly provides for the establishment of a political federation, there is no elaboration on this issue. There are thus no answers to several key questions related to the establishment, operation and growth of an East African Political Federation. Nonetheless, if the political federation is to be successful, it requires the participation and genuine ownership by the people through their institutions of choice. The ultimate decision of when and how to federate has to be put to East Africans in a referendum to endorse or reject a widely negotiated Federal Constitution. Wide consultation are essential because a review of the three East African partner states in 2005 and part of 2006 highlights constitutional developments some of, which have serious implications for the advancement and launch of a political federation in 2010. If the processes leading up to the political federation are not people-centered the East African Community faces the potential risk of collapsing like its predecessor. Therefore, participatory consultations that are all-inclusive have to be set in motion immediately and all modes of reaching the wanainchi should be expansively utilized. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 13 (1) 2007: pp. 126-141
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I1.39341
L. Shorr
The phenomenon of child soldiers has historically been addressed by international instruments and institutions with a uniformly preventative stance. Such a universalist approach has mainly defined child soldiers by age and applied an unvarying standard of prevention in response to every occurrence of child soldiering. This article takes issue with this universalism as neither deterring the use of children in conflict nor providing appropriate post-conflict reintegration of child soldiers. The article instead provides a critical pluralist approach to the post-conflict treatment of child soldiers. In particular, the discussion focuses on the potential options for handling former Liberian child combatants who fought in the Liberian civil war. The case of Liberia poses an opportunity to institutionalize the first active juvenile chamber for the prosecution and rehabilitation of former child soldiers. Such a chamber–modeled after the framework set forth by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in response in Sierra Leone–would incorporate principles of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) to encourage both domestic political transition and a changed understanding of what is a child soldier and what constitutes their appropriate post-conflict treatment. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 13 (1) 2007: pp. 1-29
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Pub Date : 2007-09-19DOI: 10.4314/EAJPHR.V12I1.39336
Anthony Luyirika Kafumbe
The article argues that in a patriarchal, multiethnic and multi religious country like Uganda, where people's lives are governed mainly by customary and religious laws, it is difficult to realize gender equality. Only a radical secular law reform as opposed to legal pluralism can truly emancipate women. If the state endorses legal pluralism, it would be abandoning women to the perils of patriarchy. If Uganda's Domestic Relations Bill is to effectively emancipate women, legal pluralism in family and succession laws must be eliminated—one modern uniform secular law of succession applicable to all is the way forward. The article delves into the merits of secular laws and the need to eradicate legal pluralism for true women's emancipation in multicultural Uganda. It also analyses the circumstances that make women the more adversely affected by the laws of succession, and makes a number of propositions to reform these laws. East African Journal of Peace and Human rights Vol. 12 (1) 2006: pp. 65-90
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