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Access to Justice: Widows and the Institutions Regulating Succession to Property in Uganda
(Human Rights Review, 2006)The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda in terms of article 31 (2) thereof, establishes rights under which widows and widowers can inherit property from their spouses and enjoy parental rights over their children. ... -
Accountability and Public Interest in Government Institutions
(International Journal of Public Administration, 2019)The study attempts to explain public interest in government institutions using stewardship theory. This study builds upon previous studies which have largely used agency theory to examine public interest. Data relating ... -
African Art needs to Come Home - and this is why
(The Guardian, 2015)African art dots museums across Europe and North America, gracing countries where many Africans would be hard pressed to get a visa. In the Neues museum in Berlin, the bust of Queen Nefertiti is lit and kept at a temperature ... -
African Feminism: How should we change?
(Development, 2006)Sylvia Tamale gives a critical, self-reflexive analysis of the African women's movement, with her proposals for the changes she would like to see. She asks that African feminists transform themselves and societies into a ... -
African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
(2022)Climate change, a global emergency, has become one of the most pressing issues of our time (see, for example, Religions for Peace 2016: 6; Satgar 2019; Gills and Morgan 2020; Cilliers 2021 (chapter 15); and IPCC 2021). ... -
Alcohol Abuse and Addiction
(The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies, 2020)Alcohol is a substance that people have consumed from time immemorial. Numerous examples from ancient literatures and myths allude to alcohol consumption as a part of cultural celebrations. In some societies rituals and ... -
Anesthesia Provider Training and Practice Models: A Survey of Africa
(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 ... -
The Applicability of International Human Rights Law to Non-State Actors: What Relevance to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?
(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) ... -
Assessment of Legal Information Needs and Access Problems of Lawyers in Uganda
(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, ... -
Beat By Bit: On Measuring Trade in Value Added in the Creative Economy of Southeast Asia
(In Bilangan: Selected Papers from the 2018 International Conference on Cultural Statistics and Creative Economy, 2018)Trade in cultural goods and services is one of the least understood areas in commerce. Yet another hugely important but under-scrutinized area is that of Trade in Value Added. Indeed, as former World Trade Organization ... -
Beating the Human Rights Drum
(Pretoria University of Law Press., 2015)After belabouring for hours to explain to my grandmother, Evelyn Nakitto, the subject of my doctoral studies, she summed it up in one sentence: ‘Ooh! You are going to study good manners.’ I then began to question why human ... -
Bed Diplomacy
(2021)Bed diplomacy is an informal kind of diplomacy where peaceful relationship between two or more parties is hatched, enacted, cemented, maintained, and reenacted through marriage. This form of establishing, maintaining, and ... -
Boda Bodas and Road Traffic Injuries in Uganda: An Overview of Traffic Safety Trends from 2009 to 2017
(MDPI AG, 2020-03-22)Introduction: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are an important contributor to the morbidity and mortality of developing countries. In Uganda, motorcycle taxis, known as boda bodas, are responsible for a growing proportion of ... -
Building a Parallel Corpus and Training Translation Models Between Luganda and English
(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 ... -
Burdened by History: Where does Museveni Go from here?
(Aichi Gakuin University, 2016)President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda was ‘re-elected’ last month for a fifth term in office. Some may argue it is his sixth or even seventh term, if we include the honeymoon period between 1986, when the National ... -
Called by God but Ordained by Men: The Work and Ministry of Reverend Florence Spetume Njangali in the Church of the Province of Uganda
(Journal of Anglican Studies, 2010)The controversy over the ordination of women as priests in the Church of the Province of Uganda has been going on for a long time. Today, there are a few women priests in a good number of dioceses in the Church of the ... -
Civil Society Organizations and Local-Level Peace Building in Northern Uganda
(Journal of Asian and African studies, 2016)This paper examines the contribution of civil society, notably religious and faith-based groups, traditional institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), human rights groups, and community-based self-help groups, ... -
Conflict-Risk and Agricultural Portfolios: Evidence from Northern Uganda
(Routledge, 2017-07-19)Although the impact of insecurity on agricultural decisions is widely discussed, it remains largely unstudied empirically. This study estimates the effect of risk of violence on livestock and crop portfolios using spatially ... -
Confronting the Challenges of Journalism Education in Rwanda in the context of Educational Reforms
(Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, 2019)Policy reforms aimed at improving access to and equity in tertiary education have meant that university classes are not only larger, but more diverse in terms of students’ competencies and experiences. Despite the increase ... -
Cooperation between Civil Society Actors and Judicial Mechanisms in the Prosecution of Conflict Related Sexual Violence: Guiding Principles and Recommendations
(International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2017)The mass and wide-spread perpetration of sexual violence is a depressingly common feature of conflict. Sexual violence against women, girls, boys and men can have devastating, long-term physical, psychological and societal ...
