Humanities and the Arts

Building a Parallel Corpus and Training Translation Models Between Luganda and English

Kimera, Richard; Rim, Daniela N.; Choi, Heeyoul (arXiv preprint arXiv, 2023)

Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved great successes with large datasets, so NMT is more premised on high-resource languages. This continuously underpins the low resource languages such as Luganda due to the lack ...

Luganda and the Strict Layer Hypothesis

Hyman, Larry M.; Katamba, Francis; Walusimbi, Livingstone (Phonology, 1987)

The ability of a language's syntax to determine the application vs. non-application of postlexical phonological rules has by now been firmly established in a number of languages. Such rules, which apply above the word ...

Sources and Means of Access to Legal Information by Lawyers in Uganda

Tuhumwire, Innocent; Okello-Obura, C. (Library philosophy and practice, 2010)

The availability, access to and provision of legal information is one of the key elements in transition from a closed dictatorship to a democracy. A democratic nation relies on efficient and effective judicial system. ...

Assessment of Legal Information Needs and Access Problems of Lawyers in Uganda

Tuhumwire, Innocent; Okello-Obura, C. (Library Philosophy and Practice, 2010)

Unresolved legal problems can entrench disadvantage and increase social exclusion unless legal assistance is made available to members of the community (McClelland, 2009). “As a lawyer, and even more so as a local member, ...

A Qualitative Assessment of Place and Mental Health: Perspectives of Young Women Ages 18-24 Living in the Urban Slums of Kampala, Uganda

Swahn, Monica H; Nassaka, Jacqueline; Nabulya, Anna; Palmier, Jane; Vaught, Seneca (MDPI AG, 2022-10-10)

This paper examines the link between place and mental health using a qualitative assessment and focus group discussion with young women, ages 18 to 24 years of age, residing in three slums in Kampala, Uganda. The assessment, ...

Anesthesia Provider Training and Practice Models: A Survey of Africa

Law, Tyler J.; Bulamba, Fred; Ochieng, John Paul; Edgcombe, Hilary; Thwaites, Victoria; Hewitt-Smith, Adam; Zoumenou, Eugene; Lilaonitkul, Maytinee; Gelb, Adrian W.; Workneh, Rediet S.; Banguti, Paulin M.; Bould, Dylan; Rod, Pascal; Rowles, Jackie; Lobo, Francisco; Lipnick, Michael S. (Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2019)

In Africa, most countries have fewer than 1 physician anesthesiologist (PA) per 100,000 population. Nonphysician anesthesia providers (NPAPs) play a large role in the workforce of many low- and middle-income countries ...

A mixed-methods evaluation of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland Uganda Fellowship Scheme

Hewitt-Smith, A.; Bulamba, F.; Ttendo, S.; Pappenheim, K.; Walker, I. A.; Smith, A. F. (Anaesthesia, 2018)

The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and the then Uganda Society of Anaesthesia established the Uganda Fellowship Scheme in 2006, to provide scholarships to encourage doctors to train in anaesthesia ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC), National Courts, Truth Commissions and Peace Negotiations; Complimentary or Alternatives to the Restoration of Peace in Northern Uganda?

Nakitto, Saidat (National Courts, Truth Commissions and Peace Negotiations., 2009)

The paper discusses the conflict in Northern Uganda and examines the idea of using mechanisms like prosecutions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the national courts, truth commissions and peace negotiations ...

Reflections on state obligations with respect to economic, social and cultural rights in international human rights law

Ssenyonjo, Manisuli (The International Journal of Human Rights, 2011)

In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) declared a wide range of human rights including economic, social and cultural rights as a ‘common standard of achievement’ for all peoples and all nations. At an ...

The Applicability of International Human Rights Law to Non-State Actors: What Relevance to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

Ssenyonjo, Manisuli (The International Journal of Human Rights, 2008)

In recent years, non-state actors (NSAs) such as transnational corporations, civil society groups, international organisations (including the World Trade Organisation, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) ...

The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army leaders: prosecution or amnesty?

Ssenyonjo, Manisuli (Netherlands International Law Review, 2007)

On 13 October 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber II unsealed the warrants of arrest for five senior leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/M) for crimes against humanity and war ...

The domestic protection and promotion of human rights under the 1995 Ugandan Constitution

Ssenyonjo, Manisuli (Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 2002)

This article examines the domestic constitutional framework for protection and promotion of human rights in Uganda. It considers the historical evolution of Uganda's Bill of Rights in the context of Uganda's history, which ...

Responding to Human Rights Violations in Africa Assessing the Role of the African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Ssenyonjo, Manisuli (International Human Rights Law Review, 2018)

This article examines the main achievements and challenges of Africa’s two regional bodies established to ensure the implementation of human rights in Africa. It makes an assessment of the role of Africa’s oldest regional ...