Does the Marriage Bill Meet the Human Rights Yardstick?
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Date
2013
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Uganda Women’s Network
Abstract
The Marriage Bill sets out to put in place a legal framework to reform and
consolidate the law relating to marriage, separation and divorce; to provide
for the types of recognized marriages in Uganda, marital rights and duties,
grounds for breakdown of marriage, rights of parties on dissolution of
marriage and for other connected purposes. Enactment of this piece of
legislation recognizes that the family is the basic unit of organization in
society and requires legislation cognizant of the human rights of both
women and men to provide a legal basis for marriage, separation and
divorce. The Bill deals with civil marriages, Christian marriages, customary
marriages, Hindu marriages and Bahai marriages; and also deals with
widow inheritance and separation.